PHYS 436 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
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New Homework assignments will be published on this page on Friday. They will be due on Fridays of the next week at 1159 pm. You can submit your homework up to five days later (Wednesday night at 1159pm) for 75% credit if there is no exam scheduled that week; for such cases, only three more days will be given. After that late deadline, no credit can be earned.
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| Date | Lecture | Reading (Griffiths Sections) | Homework | Discussion | Exams |
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| Monday 8/25/2025 |
Lecture 1 |
1.1 - 7.2 |
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| Tuesday 8/26/2025 |
No Discussion | ||||
| Wednesday 8/27/2025 |
Lecture 2 Locality and Maxwell's Equations Conservation Laws in Electrodynamics Lecture2.pdf |
7.3 - 8.1.1 | |||
| Friday 8/29/2025 |
Lecture 3 Poynting's Theorem Lecture3.pdf |
8.1.2, 8.2.1 | Assign HW1 due Sep 5, 2025 23:59 for 100% Sep 10, 2025 23:59 for 75% HW1 |
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| Monday 9/1/2025 |
No class (Labor Day) | ||||
| Tuesday 9/2/2025 |
Discussion 1 pdf Solutions1 |
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Wednesday |
Lecture 4 |
8.2.2 | |||
| Friday 9/5/2025 |
Lecture 5 Maxwell Stress Tensor Lecture5.pdf |
8.2.3 |
Assign |
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| Monday 9/8/2025 |
Lecture 6 EM Angular Momentum Density Lecture6.pdf |
8.2.4 |
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| Tuesday 9/9/2025 |
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Discussion 2 Solutions 2 |
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| Wednesday 9/10/2025 |
Lecture 7 Classical Wave Equation |
9.1 | |||
| Friday 9/12/2025 |
Lecture 8 Electromagnetic Waves |
9.2.1, 9.2.2 | Assign due Sep 19, 2025 23:59 for 100% Sep 24, 2025 23:59 for 75% HW3 |
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| Monday 9/15/2025 |
Lecture 9 Energy and Momentum of EM Waves |
9.2.3 |
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| Tuesday 9/16/2025 |
Discussion 3 Solutions 3 |
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| Wednesday 9/17/2023 |
Lecture 10 EM Waves in Isotropic Linear Media |
9.3.1 | |||
| Friday 9/19/2023 |
Lecture 11 Normal Reflection and Transmission of EM Waves |
9.3.2 |
Assign HW4 |
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| Monday 9/22/2025 |
Lecture 12 Oblique Reflection and Transmission of EM Waves |
9.3.3 |
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| Tuesday 9/23/2025 |
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| Wednesday 9/24/2025 |
Lecture 13 EM Waves in Conductors |
9.4.1 |
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| Friday 9/26/2025 |
Lecture 14 Optical Dispersion |
9.4.2 | Assign HW5 due Oct 3, 2025 23:59 for 100% Oct 6, 2025 23:59 for 75% HW5 Solution |
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Monday |
Lecture 15 Waveguides |
9.5.1 |
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| Tuesday 9/30/2025 |
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| Wednesday 10/1/2025 |
Lecture 16 Rectangular Waveguides |
9.5.2 |
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| Friday 10/3/2025 |
Lecture 17
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| Monday 2/27/2023 |
Lecture 18 Boundary Value Problems with Dielectrics Spherical Problems |
Griffiths 4.2 and 4.3 |
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| Tuesday 2/28/2023 |
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| Wednesday 3/1/2023 |
MidTerm 1 |
Griffiths 4.4 |
MidTerm 1 |
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| Thursday 3/2/2023 |
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| Friday 3/3/2023 |
Lecture 20 |
Griffiths 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 |
Reintroduce HW6 | ||
| Monday 3/6/2023 |
Lecture 21 Electric Currents Ampere's Law Law of Biot and Savart is Complicated! ​pdf |
Griffiths 5.1-3 | |||
| Tuesday 3/7/2023 |
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HW6 Office Hour 144 LLP 5-6 pm |
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| Wednesday 3/8/2023 |
Lecture 22 |
Griffiths 5.4 Griffiths Appendix B |
Assign HW7 due March 24 for 100% HW7 Solution |
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| Thursday 3/9/2023 |
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| Friday 3/10/2023 |
Lecture 23 |
Griffiths 5.4.2 | Introduce HW7 HW 6 due Due Mar 10 11:59 pm 100% Due 1159pm Mar 12 90% |
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| Monday 3/20/2023 |
Lecture 24 Magnetic Multipoles Levi Civita Symbol |
Griffiths 5.4.3 | |||
| Tuesday 3/21/2023 |
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HW7 Homework Office Hour 144 Loomis 5-6pm |
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| Wednesday 3/22/2023 |
Lecture 25 |
Griffiths 6.1 | Assign HW8 due by March 31 1159pm for full credit HW8 Solution |
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| Thursday 3/23/2023 |
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| Friday 3/24/2023 |
Lecture 26 ​Magnetic Materials, Magnetization Density, M. |
Griffiths 6.1 | Introduce HW8 HW7 due due March 24 for 100% or March 26 for 90% 90% |
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| Monday 3/27/2023 |
Lecture 27 Bound Currents, Magnetized Objects ​pdf |
Griffiths 6.2-3 |
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| Tuesday 3/28/2023 |
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HW8 Office Hour 144 Loomis 5-6 pm |
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| Wednesday 3/29/2023 |
Lecture 28 |
Griffiths 6.3 | Assign HW9 due by April 14, 2023 for full credit ​HW9 Solution |
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| Thursday 3/30/2023 |
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| Friday 3/31/2023 |
Lecture 29 |
Notes |
Introduce HW9 |
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| Monday 4/3/2023 |
Lecture 30 |
Griffiths 6.3 | |||
| Tuesday 4/4/2023 |
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HW9 Office Hour 144 Loomis 5-6 pm |
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| Wednesday 4/5/2023 |
Lecture 31 |
Griffiths 7.1 | HW10 due April 19 at 1159pmpm for 100% due April 23 1159pm for 90% HW10 Solution |
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| Thursday 4/6/2023 |
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| Friday 4/7/2023 |
Lecture 32 |
Notes Griffiths 7.2 |
HW9 due due 1159pm April 7 100% or due 1159pm April 9 for 90% |
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| Monday 4/10/2023 |
Lecrture 33 Repairing Ampere's LawEnergy in fields Magnetic Field energy density Poynting's Vector |
Griffiths 7.3 |
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Solution 11 | |
| Tuesday 4/11/2023 |
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discuss Midterm 2 | |||
| Wednesday 4/12/2023 |
Lecture 34 |
Griffiths 8.1.2 Notes |
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| Thursday 4/13/2023 |
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| Friday 4/14/2023 |
Lecture 35 |
Notes Griffiths 9.1-2 |
HW9 due for full credit 1159pm due Sunday 4/16 at 1159pm for 90% credit |
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| Monday 4/17/2023 |
Lecture 36 |
Griffiths 9.2 Notes |
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| Tuesday 4/18/2023 |
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HW10 Homework Office Hour |
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| Wednesday 4/19/2023 |
Lecture 37 |
Griffiths 9.2 Notes |
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| Thursday 4/20/2023 |
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| Friday 4/22/2022 |
Lecture 38 |
Griffiths 9.3.2-3 ​Notes |
Introduce HW11 |
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| Monday 4/24/2023 |
Lecture 39 ​Reflection and Refraction from Dielecrtric Interfaces II ​pdf |
Griffiths 9.3.3 |
Assign HW11 |
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| Tuesday 4/25/2023 |
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HW11 Homework Office Hour 144 Loomis 5-6pm |
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| Wednesday 4/26/2023 |
Lecture 40 |
Notes Griffirths 9.4 |
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| Thursday 4/27/2023 |
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| Friday 4/28/2023 |
Lecture 41 |
Notes | |||
| Monday 5/1/2023 |
Lecture 42 Review Statics |
HW11 due due May 1 1159pm for 100% due May 3 1159pm for 90% |
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| Tuesday 5/2/2023 |
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| Wednesday 5/3/2023 |
Lecture 43 |
HW11 due due May 3 1159pm for 90% |
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| Thursday 5/4/2023 |
Reading Day | ||||
| Friday 5/5/2023 |
Exams Start |
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| Friday 5/12/2023 |
Final Exam via Zoom 130-430pm |
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