PHYS 436 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Weekly Office Hours
Location. Day and Time. Instructor email address
144 Loomis Wed 515-615pm James Eckstein. eckstein@illinois.edu
276 Loomis Fri 3-5pm. Billy Passias. passias@illinois.edu
Transport 114 or Mon 2-4pm. Gaurav Tenkila tenkila2@illinois.edu
143 Loomis Mon 4-6pm. Zijun Wang zijun4@illinois.edu
on 8/28, 11/27 and 12/4 the Monday office hours will be held in the Transportation building. On all other Mondays they will be in 143 Loomis.
Week | Date | Prelectures | Lectures | Readings Sections from Griffiths 4th Ed. |
Homework | Discussions | Exams |
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Monday
8/21/2023 |
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HW-1 |
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Tuesday
8/22/2023 |
Discussion 1 |
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Wednesday
8/23/2023 |
Lecture 2 Electric and Magnetic Fields in Matter Boundary conditions using D, E, B and H |
Homework Office Hour 5:15 to 6:15pm Loomis 144 |
Discussion 1 Solution |
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Thursday
8/24/2023 |
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Friday
8/25/2023 |
Lecture 3 Faraday's Law and the Ampere/Maxwell Law Inductances and Derivation of the Wave Equation Reminder: Study AC Circuit Theory |
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Monday
8/28/2023 |
Lecture 4 Introduction to Conservation Laws |
9.1 9.2.2 |
HW-2 |
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Tuesday
8/29/2023 |
Discussion 2 |
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Wednesday
8/30/2023 |
Lecture 5 Energy Flux, Poynting's Vector, Conservation of Energy Discussion of Levi Civita Symbol Also check out Three dimensions definition in this file: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi-Civita_symbol Also in the product section look at "A special case of this result is (4):" We will use this product again on Friday. |
8.1 8.2.3 9.2.3 |
Homework Office Hour 5:15 to 6:15pm Loomis 144 |
Discussion 2 Solution |
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Thursday
8/31/2023 |
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Friday
9/1/2023 |
Lecture 6 EM Momentum Density, Total Momentum is Field plus Mechanical Conservation of Total Momentum Maxwell Stress Tensor |
8.2.3 9.2.3 |
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3 |
Monday
9/4/2023 |
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Tuesday
9/5/2023 |
HW-3 |
Discussion 3 |
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Wednesday
9/6/2023 |
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Lecture 7 Using Maxwell Stress Tensor Microscopic model of dielectric response |
8.2 8.2.2 |
Homework Office Hour 5:15 to 6:15pm Loomis 144 |
Discussion 3 Solution |
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Thursday
9/7/2023 |
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Friday
9/8/2023 |
Lecture 8 Propagation of EM radiation in dielectrics, Polarization current densithy Microscopic model of dielectric response Complex dielectric function EM wave packets, phase velocity, group velocity |
9.3.1 | |||||
4 |
Monday
9/11/2023 |
Lecture 9 Microscopic model of dielectric response Complex dielectric function |
9.4.3 |
HW-4 |
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Tuesday
9/12/2023 |
Discussion 4 |
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Wednesday
9/13/2023 |
Lecture 10 Phase Velocity, Fourier Transforms, Wave packets, Group Velocity |
9.4.3 | Homework Office Hour 5:15 to 6:15pm Loomis 144 |
Discussion 4 Solution |
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Thursday
9/14/2023 |
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Friday
9/15/2023 |
Lecture 11 Birefringence polarization dependent refractive index, quarter wave plate change linearly polarized light to circularly polarized light Faraday Effect and Magneto-Optical behavior Note: This is NOT Faraday's Law. It's a separate discovery. |
Notes | |||||
5 |
Monday
9/18/2023 |
Lecture 12 Lecture12notes |
9.3.2 9.3.3 |
HW-5 HW5Solution |
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Tuesday
9/19/2023 |
Discussion 5 |
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Wednesday
9/20/2023 |
Lecture 13 Brewster's Angle |
9.4.1 | Homework Office Hour 5:15 to 6:15pm Loomis 144 |
Discussion 5 Solution |
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Thursday
9/21/2023 |
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Friday
9/22/2023 |
Lecture 14 Propagation of light inside conductors A modified wave equation |
9.4.2 | |||||
6 |
Monday
9/25/2023 |
Lecture 15 Reflection from conductors Power reflection coefficient Loss upon Refflection |
Notes |
HW-6 |
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Tuesday
9/26/2023 |
Discussion 6 |
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Wednesday
9/27/2023 |
Lecture 16 Apparent Weight of Photons (Pound Rebka Experiment) |
Notes | Homework Office Hour 5:15 to 6:15pm Loomis 144 |
Discussion 6 Solution |
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Thursday
9/28/2023 |
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Friday
9/29/2023 |
Lecture 17 Waveguides I |
9.5.1 | |||||
7 |
Monday
10/2/2023 |
Lecture 18 Waveguides II, Optical Fiber Modes |
9.5.2 notes |
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Tuesday
10/3/2023 |
Discussion 7 |
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Wednesday
10/4/2023 |
Lecture 19 Microwave Cavity Resonators, such as used for Superconducting Qubits Other applications of Cavity Resonators: Particle Accelerators |
9.5.3 | Homework Office Hour 5:15 to 6:15pm Loomis 144 |
Discussion 7 Solution |
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Thursday
10/5/2023 |
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Friday
10/6/2023 |
This Lecture will be given over Zoom. Lecture 20 Time Dependent Potential Functions, A(r,t) and V(r,t) Gauge transformations including time dependence Lorentz Gauge |
10.1 | |||||
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Monday
10/9/2023 |
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We are back in Loomis 144 for this class. Lecture 21 Solution to Lorentz Gauge Potentials Lecture on same topic from physics 505 (from page 277 on) |
10.1 | |||
Tuesday
10/10/2023 |
Discussion 8 |
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Wednesday
10/11/2023 |
Lecture 22 Solution to Lorentz Gauge Potential Problems |
10.1 | Homework Office Hour 5:15 to 6:15pm Loomis 144 |
Discussion 8 Solution |
Midterm Exam I |
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Thursday
10/12/2023 |
HW-7 |
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Friday
10/13/2023 |
Lecture 23 Solution for time dependent potential functions |
10.1 10/2/1 |
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9 |
Monday
10/16/2023 |
Lecture 24 Electric Dipole Radiation |
11.1 | ||||
Tuesday
10/17/2023 |
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Discussion 9 |
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Wednesday
10/18/2023 |
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Lecture 25 Radiation from Accelerated Point Charges Larmor Formula |
11.2 |
Homework Office Hour |
Discussion 9 Solution |
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Thursday
10/19/2023 |
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Friday
10/20/2023 |
Lecture 26 Radiation from a Polarization Wave Non-Linear Optics |
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Monday
10/23/2023 |
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Lecture 27 Non-Linear Optics The first part of these notes is the same as the notes for Lect 26 |
Notes |
HW8 HW8 Solution |
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Tuesday
10/24/2023 |
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Discussion 10 |
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Wednesday
10/25/2023 |
Lecture 28 Non-Linear Optics |
Notes | Homework Office Hour 5:15 to 6:15pm Loomis 144 |
Discussion 10 Solution |
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Thursday
10/26/2023 |
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Friday
10/27/2023 |
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Lecture 29 Applications of Nonlinear Optics Second Harmonic Generation A bit on Gaussian Optics |
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Monday
10/30/2023 |
Lecture 30 Electro-optics, EO modulators |
Notes |
HW9 HW9Solution |
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Tuesday
10/31/2023 |
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Discussion 11 |
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Wednesday
11/1/2023 |
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Lecture 31 Coordinate Transformations in Special Relativity Lorentz Transformations Lorentz transformations of 4 vectors Lambda Matrices and Covariant and Contravariant 4-vectors |
12.1 | Homework Office Hour 5:15 to 6:15pm Loomis 144 |
Discussion 11 Solution |
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Thursday
11/2/2023 |
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Friday
11/3/2023 |
Lecture 32 Time/Position 4 vector Transformation Wave Vector 4 vector Transformation≈ |
12.1 | |||||
12 |
Monday
11/6/2023 |
This Lecture will be given over Zoom, The link will be emailed to the class on Sunday evening. Lecture 33 Time/Position 4 vector Transformation Energy/Momentum 4 vector |
12.1 |
HW10 HW10Solution |
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Tuesday
11/7/2023 |
Discussion 12 |
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Wednesday
11/8/2023 |
This Lecture will be given over Zoom, The link will be emailed to the class on Tuesday evening. Lecture 34 Relativistic Equations of Particle Motion What happens to F=ma in Special Relativity? |
12.2 | Homework Office Hour 5:15 to 6:15pm Loomis 144 |
Discussion 12 Solution |
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Thursday
11/9/2023 |
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Friday
11/10/2023 |
Lecture 35 Covariant Electromagnetism How do Electric and Magnetic Fields transform from one IRF to another |
12.3 | |||||
13 |
Monday
11/13/2023 |
Lecture 36 Electric and Magnetic Fields from a Moving Charge You have to transform coordinates and fields to do this! |
12.3 | ||||
Tuesday
11/14/2023 |
HW11 HW11 Solution |
Discussion 13 |
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Wednesday
11/15/2023 |
Prelecture 37 | Lecture 37 Field Pattern Transformations |
12.3 | Homework Office Hour 5:15 to 6:15pm Loomis 144 |
Discussion 13 Solution |
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Thursday
11/16/2023 |
Second Midterm |
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Friday
11/17/2023 |
Lecture 38 Field Pattern Tranformations Maxwell's Equations in Relativistic Form Discussion of Twin Problem |
12.3 | |||||
14 |
Monday
11/20/2023 to Friday 11/24/2022
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Fall break | |||||
15 |
Monday
11/28/2022 |
Lecture 39 |
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Tuesday
11/29/2022 |
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Discussion 14 |
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Wednesday
11/30/2022 |
Lecture 40 Radiation from a Relativisitic Charge Free Electron Lasers |
Notes | Homework Office Hour 5:15 to 6:15pm Loomis 144 |
Discussion 14 Solution |
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Thursday
12/1/2022 |
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Friday
12/2/2022 |
Lecture 41 Lagrangian for Relativistic Dynamics from Lorentz Force Law Identification of Canonical Momentum. (Important for QM Hamiltonian Dynamics) |
Notes 10.3 |
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Monday
12/5/2022 |
Lecture 42 Lagrangian Formalism |
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Tuesday
12/6/2022 |
Discussion 15 |
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Wednesday
12/7/2022 |
Lecture 43 Lagrangian Formalism (continued) |
Homework Office Hour 5:15 to 6:15pm Loomis 144 |
Discussion 15 Solution |
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Thursday
12/8/2022 |
Reading Day | ||||||
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Final Exam |