The curriculum of the course, which will be tested in the two exams, is defined by the stated learning outcome and is covered by the lectures, the lecture notes, and the mandatory exercises.
Lecture notes
We will use the lecture notes prepared by prof. Jon Magne Leinaas. (Note that in some parts of the lectures we will not follow Leinaas’ exact notation.)
As a supplement to the lecture notes there exists a collection of formulae that can be brought along to the exam, so please make sure you are very familiar with this. It can be found in Bokmål, English and Nynorsk.
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.