Francesco Lacava is Associate Professor of Experimental Physics at the "Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy. His research interests include the physics of hadron colliders and the development of detectors for particle physics. Over the past three decades, he has contributed to the ATLAS Experiment at LHC, one of the two experiments that observed the Higgs boson in 2012. In recent years, he worked on the upgrade of the muon tracking detectors of the experiment. He previously participated in the UA1 Experiment at the CERN proton-antiproton collider, which discovered the W and Z bosons in 1983. He is the author or co-author of more than 1000 papers on high-energy particle physics and detectors.

Presents unusual approaches to interesting topics (energy flow, resonant cavity, angular momentum paradox)

Examines electrodynamics in special relativity, using numerous examples and practice problems

Covers classical methods in electrostatics (image charges, conformal mapping, separation of variables)

1 Classical Electrodynamics: a short review.- 2 Multipole expansion of the potential.- 3 The method of image charges.- 4 Image charges in dielectrics.- 5 Series of image charges.- 6 Functions of complex variables and Electrostatics.- 7 Conformal mapping in Electrostatics.- 8 Separation of Variables in Laplace Equation.- 9 Relativistic transformation of E and B fields.- 10 Relativistic covariance of Electrodynamics.- 11 The resonant cavity.- 12 Energy and momentum of the electromagnetic field.- 13 The Feynman paradox.- 14 Fields, potentials and radiation.- 15 Test of of the Coulomb's law and limits on the mass of the photon.- 16 Magnetic monopoles.- A Orthogonal curvilinear coordinates.