Fundamentals of Electromagnetism: Vacuum Electrodynamics, Media, and Relativity

This textbook is a revised and enlarged version of notes for a one-semester course on electromagnetism. It covers the theory of electromagnetic phenomena in vacuum and in material media. The book includes a CD-ROM with didactic software, to solve boundary value problems in electrostatics and magnetostatics. Historical perspectives of electromagnetism.- Relativistic kinematics.- Relativistic dynamics.- Electrostatics.- Poisson and Laplace equations.- Magnetic fields.- Maxwell’s equations.- Dynamic fields and radiation.- Covariant formulation of electromagnetism.- Fields in material media.- Linear material media.- Waves in material media.- Superconductivity.