PHYS 505 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Schedule

Date Lectures Text Homework
Tuesday
8/23/2022
Lecture 1: Maxwell Equations, Wave Equation 6.1-6.3  
Thursday
8/25/2022
Lecture 2: Green Functions, Jefimenko's Equations

6.4-6.5;
see also 12.11

HW 1
Tuesday
8/30/2022
Lecture 3: Point Charges, Radiation Fields, Larmor Formula 14.1-14.2
(derivations differ)
 

Thursday
9/1/2022

(continuation of previous)    
Tuesday
9/6/2022
Lecture 4: Nonrelativistic Scattering from Point Charges,
Frequency Distributions
14.2-14.3  
Thursday
9/8/2022
Lecture 5: Radiation from
Accelerated, Relativistic Point Charges
14.2-14.3 HW 2
Thursday
9/15/2022
Lecture 6: Angular Distribution of Radiation 14.3-14.5 HW 3
Tuesday
9/20/2022
Lecture 7: Synchrotron Radiation 14.6  
Thursday
9/22/2022
(continuation of previous)    
Tuesday
9/27/2022
Lecture 8: Bremsstrahlung, general features,
low frequency limit
15.1  
Thursday
9/29/2022
Lecture 9: Coulomb scattering,
Rutherford cross section, classical and nonrelativistic brem
15.2 HW 4
Tuesday
10/4/2022
(continuation of previous)    
Thursday
10/6/2022
Lecture 10: Relativistic brem, method of virtual quanta 15.3-15.6  
Tuesday
10/11/2022
Lecture 11: Covariance of Electrodynamics  11  
Thursday
10/13/2022
Lecture 12: Collisions and energy loss 13.1  
Tuesday
10/18/2022
Lecture 13: Density effects in energy loss 13.2-13.3  
Thursday
10/20/2022
(continuation of previous)   HW 5
Tuesday
10/25/2022
Lecture 14: Cherenkov radiation 13.4  
Thursday
10/27/2022
Lecture 15: Multipole Radiation, Simple Antennas 9  
Tues
11/1/2022
(continuation of previous)    
Thurs
11/3/2022
Lecture 16: Magnetic Dipoles and Electric Quadrupoles    
Thurs
11/10/2022
Lecture 17: Waveguides 8.2 HW 6
Tues
11/15/2022
(continuation of previous)    
Thurs
11/16/2022
Lecture 18: Energy loss in waveguides 8.1,8.3 HW 7
Tues
11/29/2022
Lecture 19: Resonant Cavities    
Thurs
12/1/2022
Lecture 20: Resonant Cavities II:
Losses & equivalent circuits