Classical Electrodynamics

Francesco Lacava is Associate Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Rome “Sapienza”, Italy. His research interests include the physics of hadron colliders and the development of detectors for particle physics. He has been involved in the ATLAS Experiment at LHC over the past two decades, and is currently working on the upgrade of the muon tracking detectors. He previously participated in the UA1 Experiment at the CERN proto-antiproton collider, which discovered the W and Z bosons in 1983. He is the author or co-author of more than 600 papers on high-energy particle physics and detectors.

1. Classical Electrodynamics: a short survey.- 2. Orthogonal coordinates.- 3. Multipole expansion.- 4. Method of image charges.- 5. Image charges and dielectrics.- 6. Electrostatics and complex functions.- 7. Relativistic transformations of the electric and magnetic fields.- 8. Relativistic Covariance of the Electrodynamics.- 9. The resonant cavity.- 10. Energy and momentum of the electromagnetic field.- 11. The Feynman paradox.- 12. The test of Coulomb's Law and the mass of the photon.- 13. Magnetic Monopoles.