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PY521
Electricity and Magnetism I
Spring 2014
Instructor: Professor Shyamsunder Erramilli
Office: SCI 214
Phone: 353-1271
e-mail: shyam@bu.edu
Office hours: MW11:00 AM 12:30PM, PHO 821
Grader: TBN
Lecture: MW 9:30 AM 11:00 AM, PRB 150
Discussion: F4:00 PM 5:00 PM, SCI B58
Course Website: On backboard at learn.bu.edu
Lecture Material: Class notes in the form of a book are available on blackboard.
Required Textbook: Anupam Garg, Classical Electromagnetism in a Nutshell, Princeton
University Press. Additional notes will be supplied as needed. Note: We will be using SI
units exclusively in the course.
Supplemental Texts: The following books are not required, but it is recommended that you
and/or your study group acquire some of them to help in preparing for Electromagnetism
problems in the Comprehensive Examination. You will find them useful throughout your
physics career. The best of the list are those by Landau and Lifshitz, Stratton, and Born and
Wolf. The book by Jackson is encyclopedic and is an invaluable reference, serving as the
standard for several generations of physicists. The revised book by Schwinger et al is also
very good. The material in most of these books is dated, and does not reflect the way
Electromagnetism is used in Physics research today. But some of these books are timeless
classics, and it is well worth acquiring as many of them as you can afford.
Jackson, John David, Classical Electrodynamics, 3rd edition, Wiley, New York (1999).
Schwinger, Julian, Lester L. DeRaad Jr., Kimball A. Milton, and Wu-yang Tsai, Classical
Electrodynamics, Perseus Books, Reading, MA (1998).
Arfken, George, Mathematical Methods for Physicists, 3rd edition, Academic Press, New
York (1985). For a general comprehensive reference on Mathematical Methods. A new
edition is planned.
Born, Max, and Emil Wolf, Principles of Optics, 6th edition, Pergamon Press, Oxford
(1980).
Landau, L.D., and E.M. Lifshitz, Electrodynamics of Continuous Media, Pergamon Press,
Oxford (1960).
A good undergraduate level text for review is Griffiths, Electrodynamics. It is a very good
preview resource, with interesting problems.
For numerical methods with MATLAB, Alejandro Garcia, Numerical Methods for Physics,
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