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Welcome to Phys 505, the graduate level E&M course at UIUC, which covers Maxwell's equations, Green's function techniques, EM waves in media, conservation laws, retarded potentials, radiation, scattering, and the covariant formulation of E&M, among other topics.
This semester I will attempt to restructure the way this course is taught. The aim is to cover all the critical rigorous material from Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics textbook, but place it 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, x-ray scattering, holography, synchrotron radiation, etc. I ask for your patience since this will be 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. | Fri 11:30-12:30 pm | 1004 MRL | abbamont@illinois.edu |
| Rajas Chari | Grader | Wed 9-10 am | 4110 ESB | rajasc2@illinois.edu |
| Praveen Balaji | Grader | Thu 3-4 pm | Loomis 222 | pbalaji4@illinois.edu |
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.