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Welcome to my calls about electrodynamics based on the Maxwell's equations.



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I'm pretty sure that in school you have already heard of the terms, magnetic fields, electric fields



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and maybe also the electromagnetic wave, and maybe you even have an understanding of what these terms



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mean.



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So here's an example.



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So when we have two charges, we can draw the electric field lines between these two charges.



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And when we have a wire with a current, then we can draw the magnetic field lines by using the right



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hand drill.



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And if we can see the light as an electromagnetic wave, we can see that the electric and the magnetic



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field oscillate in time and space.



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But the question in all of these three cases arises, why is that possible and how is it possible?



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Why do the electric field lines local as they look?



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And why do the magnetic field lines look as is shown here?



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And the answer in all cases can be related to a theoretical concept that was based on four equations,



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these equations have been formulated by Maxwell in the 19th century, and they allow to explain all



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of these terms above and even more.



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This course contains more than nine hours of video lectures.



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It even includes a two hour mathematical tutorial at the very beginning to help you get started with



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the mathematics.



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Furthermore, it contains several multiple choice quizzes, so you can check if you really understood



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what I told you.



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The same purpose is served by these exercises that you can solve by yourself, and of course, I will



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provide solutions with the video and you can also download all of my slides that I'm presenting in this



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course.



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My name is Berger and I'm a post-doctoral researcher who has been working in physics for more than five



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years.



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I have a lot of experience supervising bachelor's students, master's students and even PhD students,



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mainly in quantum mechanics and electrodynamics.



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As I told you, we will start with an optional tutorial about the mathematics.



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So this will contain topics like the complex numbers and multidimensional calculus.



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So we will introduce to Novela Operator and, for example, line integrals and surface integrals.



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Then we get started with the main topics, so here we will start with a discussion about early electromagnetism



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and light as an electromagnetic wave.



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So this introduction will be quite short and you will see what was known to physicists before Max formulated



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his equations.



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So then in the third section, the main part starts here, I will introduce to Maxwell's equations and



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I will motivate them by symmetry.



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Of course, we will discuss these equations in great detail because they are really the basis of this



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whole course.



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And then for the remainder, which will be the majority of this course, we will solve special cases



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and also come up with general solutions to these Maxwell's equations.



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So, for example, we will consider again light as an electromagnetic wave and vacuum.



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So here you will really see how these solutions rely on the Maxwell's equations.



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And then we will discuss electrostatic and Magneto's static's where we have stationary charges or stationary



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currents.



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And based on these findings, we can come up with the general solution by using -- potentials.



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You will see and learn all about this in the seventh section.



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And finally, I will conclude with the eighth section, which is quite short again, so this is where



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we will discover the electrodynamics in matter.



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For example, if you want to consider the electric field in a piece of metal and not in a vacuum, and



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you will see that the equations look very similar and therefore the physics is very similar to what



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we have learned.



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What I really like about theoretical electrodynamics is that we just have to discuss the four basic



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Maxwell equations and from them we can extract all of the knowledge that was known before and we can



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even discuss most of the modern phenomena of electrodynamics.



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So I hope to see you in the course soon.