Lecturer
Beginning of course
The lecture will start already in the first week of the semester, i.e., the first class will take place on Wednesday, April 8, 2026. The first exercise sheet will be due on April 20 and be discussed in the first tutorial in the week of April 20.
Spacetime
- Wednesday, 11:30 - 13:00, Hörsaal V57.02, Pfaffenwaldring 57
- Friday, 11:30 - 13:00, Hörsaal V57.02, Pfaffenwaldring 57
General Information
- The lecture will be given in German.
- The registration for the exercise groups will be open from Friday, April 10, 13:30. To do so, you need the Lecture Key given in the second lecture. Note that the registration is only possible from within the university network.
- If you assign a password at the registration, you can request your current scores here. This is highly recommended.
Recordings of the lectures can be accessed via ILIAS. The recordings should be seen as a service to those of you who cannot come on a specific date (e.g., due sickness etc.) or want to recap later. However, I highly recommend attending as many lectures as possible, to take advantage of the interactive nature of the classroom and learn with/from your peers.
Examination
There will be a written exam at the end of the course (spacetime to be announced) on the content covered by the lecture. The exam will be 2h and you will be allowed to bring one A4 page (both sides) with handwritten notes.
To qualify for the written exam, you have to pass the exercise class (see below). Students who have already obtained a suitable certificate from another lecturer must have it recognized by 31.04.2026 by sending it via E-Mail to Prof. Scheurer.
Literature
- Jackson, Klassische Elektrodynamik
- Nolting, Grundkurs Theoretische Physik 3
- Griffiths, Elektrodynamik - Eine Einführung
- Fließbach, Elekrodynamik - Lehrbuch zur Theoretischen Physik II
- Zangwill, Modern electrodynamics
Topics
Einleitung und Hintergrund. Kontext in der modernen Physik. Vektorrechnung. Integral-Sätze. Dirac-Delta „Funktion“. Reihenentwicklungen. Greensche Funktionen.
Elektrostatik. Coulombsches Gesetz. Feldverhalten an Grenzflächen. Elektrostatische Energie. Randwertprobleme. Greenscher Satz. Spiegelladungen. Entwicklung in Funktionen-Systemen. Krummlinige Koordinaten. Multipol-Entwicklung. Dielektrika.
Magnetostatik. Biot-Savart Gesetz. Vektorpotential. Magnetisches Moment. Magnetisierbares Medium. Randwertprobleme der Magnetostatik.
Elektrodynamik. Faradaysches Induktionsgesetz. Energie und Lenzsche Regel. Verschiebungsstrom. Maxwell-Gleichungen. Eichpotentiale und -transformationen. Wellengleichung. Energie- und Impulserhaltung. Harmonische Zeitabhängigkeit. Wellenleiter. Grenzflächen. Strahlung.
Spezielle Relativitätstheorie. Postulate. Vierer-Vektoren. Lorentztransformationen. Einfache Anwendungen. Kovarianz der Maxwell-Gleichungen.
Je nach Zeit am Ende des Semesters besprechen wir weitere ausgewählte Themen.
Requirements to pass exercise class
The weekly exercises class will involve:
(1) Handing in solutions for those exercises labeled as "written"; these will be marked and discussed in the next tutorial. The deadline is Mondays at noon. Please upload your solutions on ILIAS before the deadline.
(2) Virtual presentations: at the beginning of every tutorial, you can indicate on a list which parts of the exercises labeled as "oral" you have prepared and are willing to present. While everyone will get points for the parts signed up for, only one person will have to present it.
If any question on the exercise lists is not clear enough, please feel free to contact your tutor for clarifications.
In order to pass the exercises, you need at least 50% of the points in (1) and 66% of the points in (2); furthermore, every student is required to present at least two times on the blackboard.
Problem Sets
| No. | Published | Due | Download | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14.04.2026 | 20.04.2026 | Problem set 1 | |
| 2 | 21.04.2026 | 27.04.2026 | Problem set 2 | |
| 3 | 29.04.2026 | 04.05.2026 | Problem set 3 | |
| 4 | 05.05.2026 | 11.05.2026 | Problem set 4 | |
| 5 | 11.05.2026 | 18.05.2026 | Problem set 5 | |
| 6 | 18.05.2026 | 01.06.2026 | Problem set 6 | |
Tutorials
| Tutor | Room | Day | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lucas Pupim (Gruppe 1) | 2.120 | Wednesday | 3:45 PM |
| Ellen Meyberg (Gruppe 2) | 2.326 | Wednesday | 3:45 PM |
| Mustafa Ismagambetov (Gruppe 3) | 2.120 | Wednesday | 9:45 AM |
| Bernhard Putzer (Gruppe 4) | 2.558 | Wednesday | 9:45 AM |
| Saeed Osat (Gruppe 5) | 5.319 | Monday | 9:45 AM |
| Denis Sedov (Gruppe 6) | 2.326 | Wednesday | 9:45 AM |