Individual course details
Study programme Physics
Chosen research area (module) General pyisics
Nature and level of studies Master academic studies
Name of the course General electrodynamics 
Professor (lectures) Voja Radovanovic
Professor/associate (examples/practical) Biljana Nikolic
Professor/associate (additional)  
ECTS 5 Status (required/elective) required
Access requirements Electromagnetism, Mathematics 3
Aims of the course Understanding basic concepts, methods  and laws  of electrodynamics.
Learning outcomes The students should learn and understand basic principles of Electrodynamics: gauge symmetry, Lorentz symmetry of Electrodynamics, energy, momentum and angular momentum of classical electromagnetic field,etc.  
Contents of the course
Lectures 1. Charge and electromagnetic  field. Dirac delta function.  Continuity equation. 2. Electrostatics. Coulomb Law. Gauss Law. Multipole expansion of scalar potential. Electric dipole and quadrupole. 3. Magnetostatics. Biot-Savart Law. Ampere Law.  Multipole expansion of vector potential. Magnetic dipole. 4. Faraday law.  Maxwell equation.  5. Potentials of electromagnetic field. Gauge invariance. 6. Maxwell equation in macroscopic media. Constitutive equations.  Boundary conditions. 7. Poynting theorem. Energy of electrostatic and magnetostatics fields. Joule Heating.  8. Momentum and  angular momentum of field. Maxwell stress tensor. 9. Four potential and four current density. Field strength tensor. Transformation of electromagnetic field. 10. Particle in electromagnetic field. Lagrangian and Hamiltonian. Equations of motion and their covariance . 11. Action and equations of motion for electromagnetic field. 12. Spatial reflection and time reversal. 13. Electrodynamics of moving media. 
Examples/ practical classes Students solved homework problems under supervision of professor.
Recommended books
1 J. D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics, J. Wiley and Sons (1999)
2 V. Radovanovic, Elektrodinamika,  Beograd (2017)
3 L. Landau and L. Lifshitz, Classical Theory of Fields, Butterworth-Henemann (1975)
4 B. Milic, Maksvelova elektrodinamika, Beograd  (2002)
4 A. Zangwill,  Modern Electrodynamics,(2013)
6 V. V. Batygin and I. N. Toptygin, Problems in Electrodynamics, Academic Press (1964)
Number of classes (weekly)
Lectures Examples&practicals   Student project Additional
2 2      
Teaching and learning methods  
Assessment (maximal 100)
assesed coursework mark examination mark
coursework 10 written examination 30
practicals   oral examination 40
papers 20    
presentations