Maxwell's Equations — Study Resources & PYQs
Maxwell's equations in integral and differential forms.
- Estimated study time: 30 minutes
Study resources
- NPTEL EM Theory - Week 6 (Maxwell's equations, Poynting's theorem) (Article) — Week 6 assembles all four Maxwell equations from the earlier weeks' results, then proves Poynting's theorem as energy conservation for the field.
- Electromagnetic Theory (EE) - Week 6, IIT Kanpur (Article) — Covers Maxwell's equations from an engineering angle, with skin depth and wave propagation in dielectrics and conductors as a bonus.
- Physics Wallah (Alakh Pandey) - Displacement Current and Maxwell's Equations (Video) — Video lecture explaining the concept and need for displacement current, leading into Maxwell's equations.
- Wikipedia - Displacement Current (Article) — Wikipedia article on displacement current: its origin, physical meaning, and role in Ampere-Maxwell law.
- Vaia - Maxwell's Equations Integral Form: Derivation & Examples (Article) — Step-by-step derivation of Maxwell's four equations in differential form from their integral form using divergence/Stokes' theorem.
- USPAS - Lecture: Maxwell's Equations (PDF) (PDF) — Concise lecture slide deck (PDF) listing Maxwell's equations side-by-side in both integral and differential form.
- University of Maryland - Maxwell's Equations: Wave Equation & Plane Wave Solutions (PDF) (PDF) — MIT supplementary notes deriving the 3D wave equation for vacuum EM fields from Maxwell's equations and finding the general plane-wave solution.
- MIT - Lecture 09: Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Waves (PDF) (PDF) — MIT lecture notes deriving the EM wave equation from Maxwell's equations and discussing basic wave properties.
- What Is Rolling Friction? Rolling Resistance Explained (Example Problem & Equations) (Video) — Explains the concept of rolling friction/resistance, its causes, and the governing equation with an example problem.
Maxwell's Equations previous year questions
Taught in these subjects
- APPLIED ENGINEERING PHYSICS — BPHT11 · Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu
- Advanced Engineering Physics — BST1203 · Government College of Engineering and Technology, Jammu