Individual course details
Study programme Physics
Chosen research area (module) Theoretical and Experimental Physics
Nature and level of studies Undergraduate study
Name of the course Electrodynamics 2
Professor (lectures) Voja Radovanovic
Professor/associate (examples/practical) Biljana Nikolic
Professor/associate (additional)  
ECTS 5 Status (required/elective) reqiried
Access requirements Electrodynamics 1
Aims of the course This course is a continuation of Electrodynamics 1. The aim of this course is applying general theoretical methods of Electrodynamics 1 on special problems: static fields, radiation, fields in matter, electromagnetic waves etc.    
Learning outcomes Students can understand and solve problems in Electrodynamics and to apply Electrodynamics  in advanced areas of physics. 
Contents of the course
Lectures 1. Electrostatics. Dipole layers. Poisson’s Equation and uniqueness  of its solution. Poisson-Green equation. 2. Laplace equation in spherical, cylindrical and cartesian coordinates.  3. Electrostatics of conductors. Methods of images.  Green  functional method.  4. Dielectric matter in electrostatic field. Clausius Mossotti equation. Models of the molecular polarisability. Forces and energy .  5. Magnetostatic field in matter. Paramagnetism. Diamagnetism and ferromagnetism . 6.  Electromagnetic waves in vacuum and nonconducting medium . Monochromatic plane waves . Polarization of waves . Doppler effect. 7.   Electromagnetic field in cavity. Planck law of radiation. 8.  Green function for wave equation.  Lienard Wiecher potentials and fields. 9. Radiation of charged particles. Electric dipole, magnetic dipole  and quadrupole radiation.  Radiation of linear antenna . Radiation of relativistic particles. 10. Quasistatic field. Skin effect. 11. Frequency dispersion. Poyning’s theorem for dispersive media.  Classical models for dispersion of dielectric constant and conductivity. Kramers-Kroning relations 12. Spatial dispersion. 13. Electromagnetic waves in homogenious matter. Groupe velocity. 14. Electromagnetic waves in anisotropic matter. 15. Scattering of electromagnetic waves. Thomson and Rayleigh scattering. Blue sky. 
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 L. Landau and L. Lifshitz, Classical Theory of Fields, Butterworth-Henemann (1975)
3 L. Landau and L. Lifshitz, Electrodynamics of Continous Media, Elsevier (1979)
4 V. V. Batygin and I. N. Toptygin, Problems in Electrodynamics, Academic Press (1964)
5 V. Radovanovic, Elektrodinamika, Beograd  (2017)
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