Welcome to the MAST Electricity and Magnetism Homepage. On this page you will find links to the lessons for this course, a listing of available papers submitted by students of this course, and a list of references that were useful in making this course.
There are two kinds of physics; mechanics (dealing with motion) and field theory (dealing with the properties that occur throughout a region). Electricity and Magnetism are two of the most fundamental types of field theory, indeed we will seethat they are different aspects of the same thing.
Lesson 1: Charges and Forces
Lesson 2: The Electric Field
Lesson 3: Electric Potential
Lesson 4: The Dielectric
Lesson 5: DC Circuits
Lesson 6: Current Density and Magnetic Forces
Lesson 7: The Magnetic Field
Lesson 8: The Vector Potential
Lesson 9: Induction
Lesson 10: AC Circuits
Lesson 11: Waves
Lesson 12: Maxwell's Equations
Lesson 13: Electromagnetic Waves
Lesson 14: Geometrical Optics
Lesson 15: Wave Optics
Lesson 16: The Principles of Relativity
Lesson 17: The Lorentz Transformation
Lesson 18: Relativistic Kinematics
Lesson 19: Relativistic Dynamics
Lesson 20: Relativistic Electrodynamics
The lessons of this course will be written and administered using Mathematica. You will need either MathReader or a copy of Mathematica to read these lessons. MathReader is freely available and can be found here. If you are taking this course officially you can discuss the matter with your instructor who can get you a copy of Mathematica (free for six months, or the student version for $140 for as long as you are a MAST/SAS student with the ability to upgrade to the professional version for $350, at toal of $590 — a savings of over $600).
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