Degrees incorporating this pedagocial element :
Description
Content
- Maxwell in a vacuum
- Maxwell's equations
- Notion of distribution, charge and current distribution
- Invariances and symmetries of the EM field
- Interface and boundary conditions
- Electrostatic case: Coulomb law, electric potential, conductors, dipoles
- Magnetostatic case: Biot and Savart, magnetic potential, dipoles
- Magnetodynamic case: induction phenomenon, induced currents
- Wave case: propagation, reflection on a plane conductor, guided waves
- Electromagnetic energy in vacuum
- Maxwell in matter
- Polarization of material
- Microscopic origin of polarization
- Macroscopic aspects of static polarization of dielectric materials
- Polarization charges
- Macroscopic fields in matter, dielectric susceptibility (tensor)
- Microscopic origin of magnetization
- Paramagnetism, diamagnetism
- Macroscopic fields in matter, magnetic susceptibility (tensor)
- Ferromagnetism: spontaneous magnetic order, domains, hysteresis cycles and magnetization processes
- Electromagnetic energy in matter
- Propagation of electromagnetic waves in materials
- Reflection, transmission, absorption and dispersion
Courses offered by :
In brief
Credits : 3Number of hours
- Tutorials (TD) : 10h
- Lectures (CM) & Teaching Unit (UE) : 15h
Language(s) : English
International students
Open to exchange students