Classical Electrodynamics Part II by Robert G. Brown Duke University Physics Department Durham, NC 27708-0305
[email protected] Acknowledgements I’d like to dedicate these notes to the memory of Larry C. Biedenharn. Larry was my Ph.D. advisor at Duke and he generously loaned me his (mostly handwritten or crudely typed) lecture notes when in the natural course of events I came to teach Electrodynamics for the first time. Most of the notes have been completely rewritten, typeset with latex, changed to emphasize the things that I think are important, but there are still important fragments that are more or less pure Biedenharn, in particular the lovely exposition of vector spherical harmonics and Hansen solutions (which a student will very likely be unable to find anywhere else). I’d also like to acknowledge and thank my many colleagues at Duke and elsewhere who have contributed ideas, criticisms, or encouragement to me over the years, in particular Mikael Ciftan (my “other advisor” for my Ph.D. and beyond), Richard Palmer and Ronen Plesser. Copyright Notice Copyright Robert G. Brown 1993, 2007 Notice This set of “lecture notes” is designed to support my personal teaching ac- tivities at Duke University, in particular teaching its Physics 318/319 series (graduate level Classical Electrodynamics) using J. D. Jackson’s Classical Elec- trodynamics as a primary text. However, the notes may be useful to students studying from other texts or even as a standalone text in its own right. It is freely available in its entirety online at http://www.phy.duke.edu/ rgb/Class/Electrodynamics.php ∼ as well as through Lulu’s “book previewer” at http://www.lulu.com/content/1144184 (where one can also purchase an inexpensive clean download of the book PDF in Crown Quarto size – 7.444 9.681 inch pages – that can be read using any PDF browser or locally printed).× In this way the text can be used by students all over the world, where each student can pay (or not) according to their means.