The manual is intended for students studying the section Electricity and magnetism in the framework of the course of general physics of physical and engineering universities. It contains guidelines for solving problems of different levels of complexity with a detailed analysis of solution methods using specific examples. The manual will allow students to learn how to independently work with educational and scientific literature, apply the studied laws to solving physical and practical problems, analyze the solutions obtained, derive the main relationships between physical quantities following from the postulates of the theory or from the results of the experiment, carry out calculations with the required degree of accuracy, set forth the basic concepts and laws of electromagnetism. The manual provides a large list of tasks for all chapters of the section for independent work of students. It can be used to teach students in the framework of undergraduate and graduate studies of any technical universities.