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Re: Electrodynamics crash course
What do you want out of it?
Classical electrodynamics as it is usually taught at an introductory level can be summarized in four Maxwell's and one force law. That is it. That is all of electrodynamics.
Therefore most of the course is usually spent in essence teaching you math tools to solve the equations, and helping build intuition, and a background knowing some simple solved systems.
But if you want to learn the quantum version of electrodynamics, that is much more involved as that usally means you don't already know field theory. (The equivalent for the classical version is already knowing and understanding the framework of Newtonian mechanics.)
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