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Electrodynamics Textbook   - An electrodynamics Internet textbook project presenting a new, modern, on-line textbook on advanced electrodynamics, free to download and to contribute to.

AC Electromagnet - Educational page describing electromagnets, their construction and simple experiments.

ALVIM Ltd. - Physical demonstrations in mechanics, heat, electricity, magnetism and optics to make science lessons and lectures more fascinating and interesting.

Classical electrodynamics and theory of relativity - Download page for a textbook by Ruslan Sharipov.

Electricity and Magnetism - Prof. Walter Lewin's video lectures on electromagnetism.

Electromagnetic Rotation - Key physics experiments on electromagnetic rotation including that of Oersted, Faraday, Ampere, and Sidorovich. English and Russian versions. The site of A.M. Sidorovich.

Electromagnetic Theory and Special Relativity - In this online book, electromagnetism is described as a physical mechanism responsible for relativistic effects.

Electromagnetism - Lecture notes on the fundamental aspects of electromagnetism at undergraduate level. [PDF]

Electromagnetism - General electromagnetic theory, including static field equations, the origins of inductance, and EMR.

How Magnet is Made - Background, history, raw materials, and the manufacturing process of magnets.

How Magnets Works - This site describes various aspects of magnetism.

Introductory Electromagnetics - Dot and Cross Products, Line Integrals of Vector Fields, Gradient of a Scalar Field, Divergence and Curl, Working in different coordinate systems, Coulomb's Law, Gauss's Law, Electric potential, Capacitance, Boundary Conditions, Stored Energy and Forces, Laplace's and Poisson's Equations, Method of Images.

JAVA Tutorial: Crookes Tube - An applet demonstrating the experiment of Crookes to show electrons travel in straight paths.

JAVA Tutorials: Capacitance - An applet which allows the user to adjust the properties of a capacitor and observe the change in capacitance.

Lecture Notes for Electromagnetics - Lecture notes introduce the essential elements of classical electromagnetism, covering Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic waves, radiation and scattering, and the Lorentz covariant formulation of the theory.

Lessons in Electric Circuits - Online book by Tony R. Kuphaldt on dc and ac electric circuits, semiconductor devices, analog and digital circuits.

Magnet Formulas - A small web site devoted to the vanishing art of practical magnet design without FEA (Finite Element Analysis).

Magnetic Fields due to a Solenoid - Simple description of magnetic fields produced by a solenoid.

Magnetization reversal applet - The site provides an applet which calculates the coherent magnetization reversal of an uniformly magnetized particle, also referred to as the Stoner-Wohlfarth model of magnetization reversal.

The MIT Course in Electromagnetism 2000 - John Belcher's course explains what is happening in electromagnetic experiments.

P10D Electricity & Magnetism - An introductory course on electromagnetism with all lecture notes in HTML.

Physics 204B - Electromagnetism - An online course in introductory electromagnetism.

What is the electron spin? - The web based tutorial on electron properties, electromagnetism, and related topics.