The curriculum associated to the course is defined by the stated learning outcomes, the content of which is covered by the lectures, the recommended book and the mandatory problem sets. This is what will be tested in the two exams of the course.
Recommended book
We will use the book Classical Mechanics and Electrodynamics, by Jon Magne Leinaas, World Scientific (2019), ISBN 978-981-3279-98-8. (Note that in some parts of the lectures we will not follow Leinaas’ exact notation.) On the lecture schedule you will find references to the section of the book we are discussing in a particular lecture, and we will be covering all the chapters in the book. For the field formulation of the Lagrange-Hamilton formalism we will provide separate notes.
We also want to point out that we provide a collection of formulae that you can bring along to the exam, so please make sure you are very familiar with it. This follows the notation used in the lectures and can be found here.
Supplementary texts
As supplementary textbooks (in English) we recommend the following:
Goldstein, Poole and Safco: Classical Mechanics, 3. edition, Addison Wesley (2002).
David J. Griffiths: Introduction to Electrodynamics, 3. edition, Pearson Benjamin Cummings (2008).
Note that the lectures do not follow the progression in these books, which include additional material not covered by the lectures.
The most relevant parts of Goldstein, Poole and Safco are chapters 1, 2, 7 (parts of the chapter) and 8 (parts of the chapter).
The most relevant parts of Griffiths are in chapter 2, sections 2.3, 2.4, 2.5; in chapter 3, sections 3.1, 3.4; in chapter 5, sections 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4; in chapter 7, section 7.3; the whole of chapter 8; in chapter 9, section 9.2; and the whole of chapter 10, chapter 11, and chapter 12.