|  | PEP 643: Electricity/Magnetism - I Tentative Topics:
 
    1. Course overview and mathematical preliminaries
    2. Electrostatics, Gauss's law, electric potential, electric energy
    3. Laplace equation in cartesian coordinate and 2D polar coordinate
    4. Laplace equation in spherical coordinate
    5. Laplace equation in cylindrical coordinate
    6. Green's function in electrostatics and method of images
    7. Multipole expansion
    8. Polarization and dielectric permittivity
    9. Magnetostatics, Ampere's law
    10. Vector potentials and Faraday's law
    11. Maxwell equations in vacuum and in matter
    12. Conservation laws of electrodynamics
    13. Waves propagation, reflection, refraction
    14. Modern applications of the electromagnetic theory
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