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Auke-Pieter Colijn and Marcel Vreeswijk

University of Amsterdam

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\section*{Foreword} 
This introductory course in electromagnetism was first
a lecture developed by prof.dr. Frank Linde who is director of
 the Dutch Institute for Particle Physics (NIKHEF) now.
The guide line of these lectures is provided by the book 
   "Introduction to Electrodynamics, David J. Griffiths, Prentice Hall,
 3rd ed.". Our experience is that this book is just beyond
reach for  first year university students. Certainly, parts of this
book can be used already in the first year, but only parts. Therefore
we have written the report you are reading now to provide a bridge
between high-school and university books on this topic. This is also the 
primary reason that we write in English. Nevertheless, we strongly
recommend to get the book of Griffiths, which is needed in the third year
anyway. 

An on-line version of the lectures and other documentation can
be found on the web page http://www.nikhef.nl/user/h73/knem.html



Amsterdam, March 2005. (Revised 2010)


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\section*{Introduction} 
What are the forces that control the world around you? Your answer may
be the united states army or some fundamentalist group. In fact,
the $fundamental$ forces that control our world are the
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\item Gravitational force, known by everybody.
This force is fairly weak, but it seems to rule our everyday life;
\item Weak force, which is responsible for radioactive decay. This force is stronger than gravitation but much weaker than the other forces below;
\item Electromagnetic force, which keeps atoms and molecules together and
is responsible for almost everything in our everyday life: from mobile
phones to processes in your body;
\item Strong force, which keeps protons and nuclei together.
\end{itemize}
In this report we concentrate on the electromagnetic force, or more general,
on classical electromagnetic theory. The classic theory provides a
macroscopic description of electromagnetic phenomena. Quantum effects
are ignored as well as relativistic effects. This implies that this description
will fail at very small distances or high speeds.

We start with electrostatic and magneto-static theory and proceed with
time dependent effects, like induction. On our way through the theory we will
deduce (and apply) the full set of Maxwell equations. Finally we use these
equations to derive that electromagnetic waves, light, exists.  The set of
Maxwell equations represent the complete  classical electromagnetic
 theory and, by accident or not, are relativistic invariant. 

At the end of each section, you find a subsection named 'Knowledge and Skills'.
In these subsections the key- definitions and formulas discussed
 in the corresponding section are listed. An overview of the skills you
 should have acquired is also given. 
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Om kosten en bomen te besparen zijn verschillende onderdelen in deze syllabus samengevoegd. Helaas loopt de pagina-nummering niet door en zal het soms enige moeite kosten om de juiste sectie te vinden, maar het doel heiligt de middelen. De verschillende onderdelen zijn:
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De leestekst m.b.t. Electrostatica, Magnetostatica en Electrodynamica.
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De opgaves voor de werkcolleges.
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De slides, zodat je makkelijk extra aantekeningen kunt maken.
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De Praktikumhandleidingen, die zelf weer uit verschillende documenten bestaat.
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