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| August 24 |
| Introduction. Conservation laws. |
| 2.4.3-4, 7.2.4, 8.1 |
| HW1 Due Aug. 31 |
| Solution
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| 26 |
| Poynting Vector, Stress Tensor. |
| 8.2.1-2 |
| Solution |
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| 28 |
| Conservation of Linear Momentum. |
| 8.2.3 |
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| August 31 |
| Conservation of Angular Momentum. |
| 8.2.4 |
| HW2 Due Sept. 8 |
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| September 2 |
| Review of Waves, Wave Equation. |
| 9.1.1-2 |
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| 4 |
| Superposition Principle, Complex Notation, Wave Interference, Phasors |
| 9.1.1-2 |
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| September 7 |
| Labor Day - Holiday - No Lecture! |
| 9.1.3-4 |
| HW3 Due Sept. 14 |
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| 9 |
| Boundary Conditions, Wave Polarization |
| 9.1.3-4 |
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| 11 |
| EM Wave Propagation - Free Space, EM Wave Energy, Momentum |
| 9.2.1-3 |
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| September 14 |
| EM Wave Propagation - Linear Media - Boundary Conditions. |
| 9.3.1 |
| HW4 Due Sept. 21 |
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| 16 |
| Reflection/Transmission EM waves at an Interface - I. |
| 9.3.2 |
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| 18 |
| Reflection/Transmission EM waves at an Interface - I (Cont.). |
| 9.3.2 |
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| September21 |
| Reflection/Transmission EM waves at an Interface - II. |
| 9.3.3 |
| HW5 Due Sept.28 |
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| 23 |
| EM Wave Propagation - Conducting Media - I. |
| 9.4.1-2 |
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| 25 |
| EM Wave Propagation - Conducting Media - I (Cont). |
| 9.4.1-2 |
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| September28 |
| Dispersion of EM Waves. |
| 9.4.3 |
| HW6 Due Oct. 5 |
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| 30 |
| Exam
(Solution). 2014:
Exam
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| October 2 |
| Dispersion of EM Waves (Cont). |
| 9.4.3 |
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| October 5 |
| EM Wave Propagation - Conducting Media - II. |
| 9.4.3 |
| HW7 Due Oct. 12 |
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| 7 |
| EM Wave Dispersion - Conducting Media, Plasmas. |
| 9.4.3 |
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| 9 |
| AC EM Fields - Circular Parallel Plate Capacitor. |
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| October 12 |
| Waveguides/Guided EM Waves. |
| 9.5.1-3 |
| HW8 Due Oct. 19 |
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| 14 |
| EM Waves - Resonant Cavities. |
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| 16 |
| EM Potentials and Fields, Gauge Invariance, Jeffimenko's Equations. |
| 10.1-10.2 |
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| October 19 |
| Liénard-Wiechert Retarded Potentials - Moving Point Charge. |
| 10.3.1 |
| HW9 Due Oct. 26 |
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| 21 |
| Retarded EM Fields - Moving Point Charge. |
| 10.3.2 |
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| 23 |
| Electromagnetic Radiation, Electric Dipole Radiation. |
| 11.1.1-2 |
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| October 26 |
| Magnetic Dipole Radiation. |
| 11.1.3 |
| HW10 Due Nov. 2 |
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| 28 |
| Electric and Magnetic Quadrupole Radiation. |
| 11.1.4 |
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| 30 |
| EM Radiation from an Arbitrary Source, Radiation Reaction on Moving Point Charge. |
| 11.1.4 |
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| November 2 |
| Scattering of EM Radiation. |
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| HW11 Due Nov. 9 |
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| 4 |
| Exam
(Solution). 2014:
Exam
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| 6 |
| Electrodynamics and Relativity. Einstein's 1905 SR papers: 1,
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| 12.1.1-2 |
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| November 9 |
| Electrodynamics and Relativity (Continued). Invariance, Contravariance, Covariance: ICC |
| 12.1.3 |
| HW12 Due Nov. 16 |
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| 11 |
| Four-Vectors, Invariant Intervals, Minkowski Diagrams. |
| 12.1.4 |
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| Four-Vectors, Invariant Intervals, Minkowski Diagrams (Continued). |
| 12.1.4 |
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| November 16 |
| Proper Time, Velocity, Relativistic Kinematics. |
| 12.2.1-3 |
| HW13 Due Nov. 30 |
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| 18 |
| Relativistic Dynamics, Relativistic Electrodynamics. |
| 12.2.3-12.3.1 |
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| 20 |
| Relativistic Electrodynamics (Continued). |
| 12.3.1-2 |
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| November 23 |
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| 25 |
| -- Thanksgiving Break - No Classes! -- |
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| November30 |
| Lorentz Transformations of EM Fields, EM Field Tensor. |
| 12.3.2-3 |
| HW14 Due Dec. 7 |
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| December 2 |
| Relativisitic Stress Tensor. |
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| Relativistic Electrodynamics II, Maxwell's Eqns, Minkowski Force on Electric Charge. |
| 12.3.4-5 |
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| December 7 |
| Relativistic Electrodynamics of Moving Macroscopic Media. |
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| -- None -- |
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| 9 |
| Gauge Invariance, Photon Mass = 0, Universal/Common Aspects of Fundamental Forces. |
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| December 15
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| Final exam
(Solution). 2014:
Exam
(Solution) |
| Tuesday, Dec. 15, 1:30-4:30 PM in 144 Loomis
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