Electromagnetic Potentials

This lecture covers Maxwell's equations, focusing on the electromagnetic potentials. It explains how these equations allow finding electric and magnetic forces given a distribution of charges and currents. The lecture also discusses the local nature of Maxwell's equations, the concept of displacement current, and the relationship between electric and magnetic fields. Furthermore, it explores the constraints in electromagnetism and the introduction of scalar and vector potentials to simplify the equations. The presentation concludes by highlighting the gauge transformation and the reduction of independent functions in the context of electromagnetic potentials.