Classical Electrodynamics

by Robert G. Brown

This is a set of lecture notes used for my second semester graduate course in Electrodynamics (Physics 319) at Duke. They are generally used by students as a supplement to J. D. Jackson's Electrodynamics text. However, the notes can also stand alone for students interested in learning advanced classical electrodynamics, or supplement other texts. It is presumed that students have completed a one semester graduate level (or advanced undergrad) course in E&M through Maxwell's equations (e.g. Jackson's chapter 6) or thereabouts. Eventually I'll extend these notes to cover both semesters in an integrated way and will at the same time make them considerably more independent as a textbook. Note Well! These notes are actively in use and contain errors great and small. Let the potential buyer be warned - you get the current (and quite cheap by textbook standards) snapshot, no money back guarantee!

357 pages, Paperback

Published August 31, 2009

About the author

My real biography is way too long and complex for a few hundred words, so this is the reader's digest version. I've lived in Skaneateles, New York, New Delhi, India, West Springfield, Virginia, and for 34 years now in Durham, NC where I teach physics at Duke. I'm married (to Susan F. Isbey MD) and have three boys. We live with three dogs, one cat, and sundry transient animals of all classes.

In addition to doing physics, math, statistics, computing, predictive modelling, and geekstuff like that, I write. A lot. Daily.

I write magazine columns and articles, usually in the field of computing. I've written lots of "learned papers" in physics, mostly published in Physical Review. I've written two books of poetry (much of which has been published on the Internet since before the Web was born), two fictional novels (one of which, The Book of Lilith, has been published), and several topical texts in physics and computing. I'm currently working on more fiction and on what should be THE definitive work on axiomatic metaphysical philosophy.

My books can be found here:

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The The Book of Lilith (ISBN: 978-1-4303-2245-0) can be found on Amazon or Barnes and Noble or other fine online booksellers. Some of them are also available for free via my personal website here:
http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb.