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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

1

Monday

8/26/2024

Lecture 1

Introduction, Conservation Laws, Poynting's Theorem

8.1.1, 8.1.2

Homework #1 (pdf)
Due Friday, Sept.6 @ midnight

Solutions

No discussion 

Wednesday

8/28/2024

Lecture 2

Conservation laws, cont.

8.2.1, 8.2.2

Friday

8/30/2024

Lecture 3

Maxwell Stress Tensor, cont.

8.2.2 continued

2

Monday

9/2/2024

No class (Labor Day)

 

Homework #2 (pdf)
Due Friday, Sept.13 @ midnight

Solutions

Discussion 1

Solutions

Wednesday

9/4/2024

Lecture 4

Conservation of Momentum

8.2.3

Friday

9/6/2024

Lecture 5

Angular Momentum in E&M

8.2.4

3

Monday

9/9/2024

Lecture 6

Classical Wave Equation

9.1.1-9.1.4 (selected topics)

Homework #3 (pdf)
Due Friday, Sept.20 @ midnight

Solutions

Discussion 2

Solutions

Wednesday

9/11/2024

Lecture 7

Electromagnetic waves

9.2.1, 9.2.2

Friday

9/13/2024

Lecture 8

Energy and Momentum of EM Waves

9.2.3

4

Monday

9/16/2024

Lecture 9

EM Waves in Linear Media

9.3.1

Homework #4 (pdf)

Due Friday, Sept.27 @ midnight

Solutions

Discussion 3

Solutions

Wednesday

9/18/2024

Lecture 10

Reflection and Transmission at an Interface (Normal)

9.3.2

Friday

9/20/2024

Lecture 11

Reflection and Transmission at an Interface (Oblique)

9.3.3

5

Monday

9/23/2024

Lecture 12

Fresnel Formulas, EM Waves in Conductors

9.3.3 cont, 9.4.1

Homework #5 (pdf)

Due Friday, Oct. 4 @ midnight

Solutions

Discussion 4

Solutions

Wednesday

9/25/2024

Lecture 13

EM waves in Conductors, Absorption

9.4.1 cont, 9.4.2

Friday
9/27/2024

Lecture 14

Optical Dispersion

9.4.3

6

Monday

9/30/2024

Lecture 15

Waveguides

9.5.1, 9.5.2

 

Discussion 5

Solutions

Wednesday

10/2/2024

Lecture 16

Rectangular waveguides

9.5.2, 9.5.3

Friday

10/4/2024

Lecture 17

Resonant Cavities

Problem 9.38

7

Monday

10/7/2024

No class

 

Homework #6 (pdf)

Due Friday, Oct. 18 @ midnight

Solutions

 

Wednesday

10/9/2024

Hour Exam I

Chapters 8-9 (inclusive)

Solutions

 

Friday

10/11/2024

Lecture 18
Potential Formulation of Electrodynamics

10.1.1, 10.1.2

8

Monday

10/14/2024

Lecture 19

Gauge Transformations

10.1.2 cont., 10.1.3

Homework #7 (pdf)

Due Friday, Oct. 25 @ midnight

Solutions

Discussion 6

Solutions

Wednesday

10/16/2024

Lecture 20
Retarded and Advanced Potentials

10.2.1, 10.2.2

Friday

10/18/2024

Lecture 21

Liénard-Wiechert Potentials

10.3.1

9

Monday

10/21/2024

Lecture 22

Liénard-Wiechert Potentials, cont.

10.3.1 continued

Homework #8 (pdf)

Due Friday, Nov. 1 @ midnight

Solutions

Discussion 7

Solutions

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

Homework #9 (pdf)

Due Friday, Nov. 8 @ midnight

Solutions

(This homework will have no late due date!)

Discussion 8

Solutions

Wednesday

10/30/2024

Lecture 26

Radiation from Higher Order Multipoles

11.1.4

Friday

11/1/2024

Lecture 27

Larmor Formula

11.2.1, 11.2.2

11

Monday

11/4/2024

Lecture 28

Radiation Reaction, Abraham-Lorentz Formula

11.2.2 cont., 11.2.3

 

Discussion 9

Solutions

Wednesday

11/6/2024

Lecture 29

Review of Special Relativity

12.1.1, 12.1.2

Friday

11/8/2024

No lecture

 

12

Monday

11/11/2024

Hour Exam II

Chapters 10-11.2.1 (inclusive)

Solutions

Practice Exam

Solutions

Homework #10 (pdf)

Due Friday, Nov. 22 @ midnight

Solutions

 

Wednesday

11/13/2024

Lecture 30

Lorentz Transformations

12.1.3, 12.1.4

Friday

11/15/2024

Lecture 31

Relativistic Dynamics

12.2.1, 12.2.2

13

Monday

11/18/2024

Lecture 32

Hidden Momentum

12.2.3, 12.2.4

 

Discussion 10

Solutions

Wednesday

11/20/2024

Lecture 33
Magnetism as a Relativistic Phenomenon

12.3.1, 12.3.2

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)

 

Homework #11 (pdf)

Due Friday, Dec. 6 @ midnight

Late Deadline is Wednesday, Dec 11 @midnight

Solutions

 

Wednesday

11/27/2024

No class (Fall Break)

 

Friday

11/29/2024

No class (Fall Break)

 

15

Monday

12/2/2024

Lecture 35

Electromagnetic Field Tensor

12.3.4, 12.3.5

 

Discussion 11

Solutions

Wednesday

12/4/2024

Lecture 36

Potentials in Covariant Form

12.3.4, 12.3.5

Friday

12/6/2024

Research Talk (Cosmic Microwave Background detection - Prof. Filippini)

 

16

Monday
12/9/2024

Research Talk (CircuitQED - Prof. Kou)

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday

12/11/2024

Research Talk (Nonlinear and photoemission spectroscopy - Prof. Mahmood)

 

 

Discussion 12

Solutions

Monday

12/16/2024

Final Exam

8am-11am in 1024 Chemistry Annex

 

Practice Final

Solutions