PHYS 436 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
All problems are from the 4th edition of Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics. Topics subject to change depending on lecture speed.
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| Week | Date | Topic | Reading (Griffiths Sections) | Homework | Discussion |
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| 1 | Monday 8/26/2024 |
Lecture 1 Introduction, Conservation Laws, Poynting's Theorem |
8.1.1, 8.1.2 |
Homework #1 (pdf) |
No discussion |
| Wednesday 8/28/2024 |
Lecture 2 Conservation laws, cont. |
8.2.1, 8.2.2 |
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| Friday 8/30/2024 |
Lecture 3 Maxwell Stress Tensor, cont. |
8.2.2 continued | |||
| 2 | Monday 9/2/2024 |
No class (Labor Day) |
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Homework #2 (pdf) |
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| Wednesday 9/4/2024 |
Lecture 4 Conservation of Momentum |
8.2.3 |
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| Friday 9/6/2024 |
Lecture 5 Angular Momentum in E&M |
8.2.4 |
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| 3 | Monday 9/9/2024 |
Lecture 6 Classical Wave Equation |
9.1.1-9.1.4 (selected topics) |
Homework #3 (pdf) |
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| Wednesday 9/11/2024 |
Lecture 7 Electromagnetic waves |
9.2.1, 9.2.2 |
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| Friday 9/13/2024 |
Lecture 8 Energy and Momentum of EM Waves |
9.2.3 |
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| 4 | Monday 9/16/2024 |
Lecture 9 EM Waves in Linear Media |
9.3.1 |
Due Friday, Sept.27 @ midnight |
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| Wednesday 9/18/2024 |
Lecture 10 Reflection and Transmission at an Interface (Normal) |
9.3.2 |
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| Friday 9/20/2024 |
Lecture 11 Reflection and Transmission at an Interface (Oblique) |
9.3.3 |
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| 5 | Monday 9/23/2024 |
Lecture 12 Fresnel Formulas, EM Waves in Conductors |
9.3.3 cont, 9.4.1 |
Due Friday, Oct. 4 @ midnight |
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| Wednesday 9/25/2024 |
Lecture 13 EM waves in Conductors, Absorption |
9.4.1 cont, 9.4.2 | |||
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Friday |
Lecture 14 Optical Dispersion |
9.4.3 |
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| 6 | Monday 9/30/2024 |
Lecture 15 Waveguides |
9.5.1, 9.5.2 |
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| Wednesday 10/2/2024 |
Lecture 16 Rectangular waveguides |
9.5.2, 9.5.3 |
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| Friday 10/4/2024 |
Lecture 17 Resonant Cavities |
Problem 9.38 |
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| 7 | Monday 10/7/2024 |
No class |
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Due Friday, Oct. 18 @ midnight |
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| Wednesday 10/9/2024 |
Hour Exam I Chapters 8-9 (inclusive) |
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| Friday 10/11/2024 |
Lecture 18 |
10.1.1, 10.1.2 |
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| 8 | Monday 10/14/2024 |
Lecture 19 Gauge Transformations |
10.1.2 cont., 10.1.3 |
Due Friday, Oct. 25 @ midnight |
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| Wednesday 10/16/2024 |
Lecture 20 |
10.2.1, 10.2.2 | |||
| Friday 10/18/2024 |
Lecture 21 Liénard-Wiechert Potentials |
10.3.1 |
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| 9 | Monday 10/21/2024 |
Lecture 22 Liénard-Wiechert Potentials, cont. |
10.3.1 continued |
Due Friday, Nov. 1 @ midnight |
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| Wednesday 10/23/2024 |
Lecture 23 Fields from a Moving Point Charge |
10.3.2 | |||
| Friday 10/25/2024 |
Lecture 24 Electric Dipole Radiation |
11.1.1, 11.1.2 | |||
| 10 | Monday 10/28/2024 |
Lecture 25 Magnetic Dipole Radiation, Antennas |
11.1.2 cont., 11.1.3 |
Due Friday, Nov. 8 @ midnight (This homework will have no late due date!) |
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| Wednesday 10/30/2024 |
Lecture 26 Radiation from Higher Order Multipoles |
11.1.4 |
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| Friday 11/1/2024 |
Lecture 27 Larmor Formula |
11.2.1, 11.2.2 |
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| 11 | Monday 11/4/2024 |
Lecture 28 Radiation Reaction, Abraham-Lorentz Formula |
11.2.2 cont., 11.2.3 |
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| Wednesday 11/6/2024 |
Lecture 29 Review of Special Relativity |
12.1.1, 12.1.2 | |||
| Friday 11/8/2024 |
No lecture |
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| 12 | Monday 11/11/2024 |
Hour Exam II Chapters 10-11.2.1 (inclusive) |
Due Friday, Nov. 22 @ midnight | ||
| Wednesday 11/13/2024 |
Lecture 30 Lorentz Transformations |
12.1.3, 12.1.4 |
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| Friday 11/15/2024 |
Lecture 31 Relativistic Dynamics |
12.2.1, 12.2.2 |
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| 13 | Monday 11/18/2024 |
Lecture 32 Hidden Momentum |
12.2.3, 12.2.4 |
Solutions |
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| Wednesday 11/20/2024 |
Lecture 33 |
12.3.1, 12.3.2 |
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| Friday 11/22/2024 |
Lecture 34 Lorentz Transformation of E and B |
12.3.3, 12.3.4 | |||
| 14 | Monday 11/25/2024 |
No class (Fall Break) |
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Due Friday, Dec. 6 @ midnight Late Deadline is Wednesday, Dec 11 @midnight |
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| Wednesday 11/27/2024 |
No class (Fall Break) |
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| Friday 11/29/2024 |
No class (Fall Break) | ||||
| 15 | Monday 12/2/2024 |
Lecture 35 Electromagnetic Field Tensor |
12.3.4, 12.3.5 |
Solutions |
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| Wednesday 12/4/2024 |
Lecture 36 Potentials in Covariant Form |
12.3.4, 12.3.5 |
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| Friday 12/6/2024 |
Research Talk (Cosmic Microwave Background detection - Prof. Filippini) |
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| 16 |
Monday |
Research Talk (Nonlinear and photoemission spectroscopy - Prof. Mahmood) |
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| Wednesday 12/11/2024 |
Research Talk (CircuitQED - Prof. Kou) |
Solutions |
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Monday 12/16/2024 |
Final Exam
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