Here are the weekly topics, reading, and homework assignments.

• Please read the book before class.
  I have broken the reading into bite sized pieces (for each lecture), so you can easily keep up.

• Homework solutions will be posted after the HW due date. (password protected)
  Discussion solutions will be posted Tuesday.

• Click on the date (in the week column) to see the lectures.

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Week:     Topic:     Reading:     Homework:     Discussion:       January 22 Introduction. Conservation laws. 2.4.3-4, 7.2.4, 8.1 Due Jan. 24 Solution 24 Poynting vector, stress tensor. 8.2.1-2 Solution January 27 Conservation of momentum. 8.2.3 Due Jan. 31 Solution 29 Angular momentum. Subtleties. 8.2.4 Solution 31 The Wave equation. Superposition. 9.1.1-2 February 3 Boundary conditions. 9.1.3-4 Due Feb. 7 Solution 5 Polarization. EM waves in vacuum. 9.2 Solution 7 E and p. Materials & interfaces. 9.2.2, 9.3.1-2 February 10 Oblique incidence. 9.3.3 Due Feb. 14 Solution 12 Brewster's angle. Solution 14 Waves in conductors. Skin depth. 9.4.1 February 17 Conducting surfaces. 9.4.2 Due Feb.24 Solution 19 Dispersion (video) 9.4.3 Solution 21 Wave guides. 9.5.1 February 24 TE modes 9.5.2 Due Mar. 3 Solution 26 In-class exam (Solution) Solution 28 Coaxial cables. Impedance. 9.5.3 March 3 Resonant cavities. Due Mar. 10 Solution 5 Vector potential. 10.1.1 Solution 7 Gauge invariance. 10.1.2-3 March 10 Retarded potentials. 10.2.1 Due Mar. 17 Solution 12 Point charges. Liénard-Wiechert potentials. 10.3.1 Solution 14 Fields produced by a moving point charge 10.3.2 March 17 Begin radiation 11.1.1 Due Mar. 31 Solution 19 Electric dipole radiation 11.1.2 Solution 21 Magnetic dipole radiation 11.1.3 March 24 26 -- Spring Break -- 28 March 31 Arbitrary sources 11.1.4 Due Apr. 7 Solution April 2 Radiation from a point charge 11.2 Solution 4 Special relativity. 1905 papers: 1, 2 12.1.1-2 April 7 4-D rotations. t-dilation & l-contraction. 12.1.3 Due Apr. 14 Solution 9 In-class exam (Solution) Solution 11 Writing manifestly covariant expressions. 12.2.1-2 April 14 Kinematics and conservation laws. 12.2.3 Due Apr. 21 Solution 16 Relativistic dynamics 12.2.4 Solution 18 Moving emitters (Doppler effect). April 21 Begin electrodynamics. 12.3.1 Due Apr. 28 Solution 23 How E & B transform. The field tensor 12.3.2-3 Solution 25 Electrodynamics with tensors. 12.3.4 April 28 Field invariants. Due May 5 Solution 30 The 4-vector potential. Solution May 2 Scattering. May 5 Scattering -- None -- Solution 7 Course review May 14 Final exam (Solution) Wednesday, May 14, 1:30-4:30 PM 218 Ceramics

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