PHYS 505 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Welcome to Phys 505, the graduate level E&M course at UIUC. This course covers the most important advanced topics in electromagnetism, including Maxwell's equations,conservation law, Green's function techniques, EM waves in media, retarded potentials, radiation, scattering, and the covariant formulation of E&M, among other topics.
This course is an ongoing attempt to present rigorous material from Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics textbook in a modern research context by including discussions of (classical) nonlinear optics, causality and the Kramers-Kronig relations, birefringence and Kerr effects, optical dispersion, waveguides, light scattering, holography, synchrotron radiation, etc. I ask for your patience as this is a work in progress.
Location
Phys 505 meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30-10:50 am in 222 Loomis.
Course Grading
The course consists of lectures, homework, a take-home midterm, and a take-home final. Homework will be assigned on most Thursdays and due at midnight on the subsequent Thursday.
All assignments will be handed in using Gradescope. Please create a Gradescope account and use code Z3PRB7 to add Phys 505.
Homework = 60%, Take-home midterm = 20%, Take-home final = 20%.
Text
Official text: J. D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics, 3rd edition.
Supplemental reading: D. J. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics, 4th edition
Contact Information
| Name | Role | Office Hour | Location | |
| Peter Abbamonte | Prof. | TBA | 1004 MRL | abbamont@illinois.edu |
| Wenrong Huo | Grader | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Yuntai Song | Grader | TBA | TBA | TBA |
Academic Integrity
- All activities in this course, including documentation submitted for petition for an excused absence, are subject to the Academic Integrity rules as described in Article 1, Part 4, Academic Integrity, of the Student Code.