PHYS 505 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
All reading is from the 3rd edition of J. D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics.
There will be frequent updates to the lecture topics, so check back regularly.
| Week | Date | Approximate Lecture Topic (in progress) | Reading | HW |
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| 1 |
Tuesday 8/26/24 |
Lecture 1: Maxwell's Equations, EM Waves, Static Limit (Poisson & Laplace Eqs.) |
1.1-1.7, 6.1, 6.2 | |
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Thursday 8/28/24 |
Lecture 2: Conservation of Charge and Energy |
5.16, 6.7 | N/A | |
| 2 |
Tuesday 9/2/24 |
Lecture 3: Conservation of Momentum, Maxwell Stress Tensor | ||
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Thursday 9/4/24 |
Lecture 4: Green's Functions, Dirichlet Conditions, Reciprocity | 1.7-1.10 | HW1 | |
| 3 |
Tuesday 9/9/24 |
Lecture 5: G(x,x') Example, Separation of Variables | 1.11, 2.2, 2.6, 2.8-2.9 | |
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Thursday 9/11/24 |
Lecture 6: Orthogonal Functions -- Cartesian, Spherical, Cylindrical | 2.9, 3.1, 3.2, 3.5, 3.7 | HW2 | |
| 4 |
Tuesday 9/16/24 |
No Class (PA in Austin, TX) |
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Thursday 9/17/24 |
Lecture 7: Spherical Harmonic Expansion for G(x,x') | 3.9 | ||
| 5 |
Tuesday 9/23/24 |
Lecture 8: Example of a Charged Hoop in a Spherical Cavity | 3.10 | |
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Thursday 9/25/24 |
Lecture 9: Multipole Expansion, Dielectrics, Boundary Conditions | 4.1, 4.3, 4.4, 4.7 | HW3 | |
| 6 |
Tuesday 9/30/24 |
Lecture 10: Magnetic Field, Vector Potential, Magnetic Dipoles | 5.2-5.4, 5.6, 5.7 | |
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Thursday 10/2/24 |
Lecture 11: Forces on Magnetic Dipoles, Magnetization | 5.7, 5.8 | HW4 | |
| 7 |
Tuesday 10/7/24 |
Lecture 12: Permeable Media, Magnetic Boundary Conditions, Magnetic Shielding | 5.8, 5.9, 5.12, 6.7 | |
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Thursday 10/9/24 |
Lecture 13: Induction, Faraday's Law | 5.15, 5.17 | HW5 | |
| 8 |
Tuesday 10/14/24 |
Lecture 14: Time-Dependent Potentials, Gauge Invariance (and a Fourier Transform Review) | 6.2, 6.3, 6.4 | |
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Thursday 10/16/24 |
Lecture 15: Time-Dependent Green's Functions, Retarded Potentials | 6.4, 6.5 | ||
| 9 |
Tuesday 10/21/24 |
Lecture 16: Harmonic Waves | 7.1, 7.2 | |
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Thursday 10/23/24 |
No Class (PA in Maryland) |
Take-home midterm exam Due TBA |
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| 10 |
Tuesday 10/28/24 |
Lecture 17: Heterogeneous Media, Fresnel Reflectivity | 7.3, 7.4 | |
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Thursday 10/30/24 |
Lecture 18: Optical Dispersion, Kramers-Kronig Relations, Causality | 7.5, 7.8-7.10 | HW6 | |
| 11 |
Tuesday 11/4/24 |
Lecture 19: (Time permitting) Nonlinear Optics | N/A | |
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Thursday 11/6/24 |
Lecture 20: Waveguides, Resonant Cavities | 8.1, 8.3-8.5, 8.7, 8.8 | HW7 | |
| 12 |
Tuesday 11/11/24 |
Lecture 21: Radiation | 9.1, 9.2 | |
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Thursday 11/13/24 |
Lecture 22: Rayleigh-Schrödinger Perturbation Theory, Scattering | 10.1, 10.2 + special topics | HW8 | |
| 13 |
Tuesday 11/18/24 |
Lecture 22: Review of Special Relativity | TBA | |
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Thursday 11/20/24 |
Lecture 23: Resolving the Hidden Momentum Paradox | TBA | HW9 | |
| 14 |
Tuesday 11/25/24 |
Fall Break | ||
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Thursday 11/27/24 |
Fall Break | HW10 | ||
| 15 |
Tuesday 12/2/24 |
Lecture 24: Lorentz Transformation of E & B, Field Tensor | TBA | |
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Thursday 12/4/24 |
Lecture 25: EM Lagrangian, Covariant Formulation of E&M | 12.7, TBA | ||
| 16 |
Tuesday 12/9/24 |
Makeup day |
Take-home final exam Due TBA |