Subject Code:  PH5L011 Subject Name:    Electrodynamics II L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credit: 3
Pre-requisite(s):   Electrodynamics I
Special relativity, Minkowski space and four vectors, concept of four-velocity, four acceleration and higher rank tensors, relativistic formulation of electrodynamics, classical fields, Action formulation, symmetries, Noether’s theorem, canonical quantization of the scalar, spin ½ fields, and Gauge bosons, relativistic particles in external electromagnetic fields, Gauge invariance, Gauge orbits and four-potential, Bianchi Identities and electromagnetic energy momentum tensor, solution of wave equation in covariant formulation, invariant Green's functions, Green function for wave equation: advanced and retarded. Radiating systems, fields and radiation from an  accelerated charge, dispersion theory, scattering by free charges, Scalar diffraction (Kirchhoff theory), Elementary treatment of self-energy and radiative corrections, divergence and renormalization, Introductory quantum electrodynamics.
Text/Reference Books:
  1.   Jackson J. D., Classical Electrodynamics, John Wiley (Asia).
  2. Peskin M. E. and Schroeder D.V., Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Addison-  Wesley.
  3. Landau L.D. and Lifshitz E. M., Electrodynamics of Continuous Media, Butterworth Heimemann.
  4. Reitz J. R. and Millford F. J., Foundation of Electromagnetic Theory, Narosa.
  5. Schwinger Julian, Classical Electrodynamics, Perseus Books.
  6. Parrott Stephen, Relativistic Electrodynamics and Differential Geometry, Springer.
  7. Woodhouse N. M. J., Special Relativity (Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series),Springer.
  8. Helliwell T. M., Special Relativity, University Science Books.
  9. Weinberg S., Quantum Field Theory, Vols. I, II, III, Cambridge University Press.