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Jean-Sébastien Caux
you can call me J-S, Tintin (Kuifje),
or by the name of any other obvious lookalike

Tip: use ED2023 in email subject.

Lecture notes

The course is taught from own
online lecture notes
structured roughly parallel to the
books of Purcell Morin and of Griffith,
which you should use as main material.

Health warning: the online lecture notes
are admittedly still under construction.

Sections will be polished up at least a week before being covered in class.

See the Literature section for suggestions of further alternative literature.

Online resources

Schedule

See the Syllabus for a detailed breakdown.

Exercise sessions

Assistants

Assessment

Graded homeworks: 3 (see Syllabus for scheduling).
Each individually counts for 8% of the final grade
(if this is to your advantage).

Final exam: 2023-03-20 (Mon) 08:30 - 11:15,
(T) RAI blok 12, 13 (100)
Counts for [ 76 / 84 / 92 / 100]% of the final grade (depending on homework scores).

Literature

(see https://jscaux.org/ln/pqed/a_l.html for full listing)

• PM
  E. M. Purcell and D. J. Morin,
  Electricity and Magnetism – required
  Cambridge University Press (3rd edition) 2013
  Available from the Internet Archive at this link.
  
  • Purcell: the Nobel prize-winning discoverer of nuclear magnetic resonance;
  • part of the Berkeley Physics Course; extremely well written and illustrated;
  • extremely clear and accessible yet full of profound and inspiring insights

• Gr
  D. J. Griffiths,
  Introduction to Electrodynamics
  (4th edition) Various publishers [Prentice Hall; Pearson; Cambridge University Press]
  • a "friendly and accessible" book; admittedly popular, but very patchy quality

• FLS
  R. P. Feynman, R. B. Leighton and M. Sands,
  The Feynman Lectures on Physics (Vol. 2): Mainly Magnetism and Matter
  Addison-Wesley, 1964 [various reprints available]
  • profound, inspiring; no exercises; the feel good book about electrodynamics

Syllabus

Questions?