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 (password protected) will be posted after the HW due date.
  Last year's (Spring 2014) homework problems and solutions can be found here (pw protected).

• Discussion solutions will be posted after the last discussion.

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

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Week:     Topic:     Reading:     Homework:     Discussion:       January 21 Introduction. Conservation laws. 2.4.3-4, 7.2.4, 8.1 Due Jan. 26 Solution 23 Poynting vector, stress tensor. 8.2.1-2 Solution January 26 Conservation of momentum. 8.2.3 Due Feb. 2 Solution 28 Angular momentum. Subtleties. 8.2.4 Solution 30 The Wave equation. Superposition. 9.1.1-2 February 2 Boundary conditions. 9.1.3-4 Due Feb. 9 Solution 4 Polarization. EM waves in vacuum. 9.2 Solution 6 E and p. Materials & interfaces. 9.2.2, 9.3.1-2 February 9 Oblique incidence. 9.3.3 Due Feb. 16 Solution 11 Brewster's angle. Solution 13 Waves in conductors. Skin depth. 9.4.1 February 16 Conducting surfaces. 9.4.2 Due Feb.23 Solution 18 Dispersion (video) 9.4.3 Solution 20 Wave guides. 9.5.1 February 23 TE modes 9.5.2 Due Mar. 2 Solution 25 Exam (Solution). 2014: Exam (Solution) Solution 27 Coaxial cables. Impedance. 9.5.3 March 2 Resonant cavities. Due Mar. 9 Solution 4 Vector potential. 10.1.1 Solution 6 Gauge invariance. 10.1.2-3 March 9 Retarded potentials. 10.2.1 Due Mar. 16 Solution 11 Point charges. Liénard-Wiechert potentials. 10.3.1 Solution 13 Fields produced by a moving point charge 10.3.2 March 16 Begin radiation 11.1.1 Due Mar. 30 Solution 18 Electric dipole radiation 11.1.2 Solution 20 Magnetic dipole radiation 11.1.3 March 23 25 -- Spring Break -- 27 March 30 Arbitrary sources 11.1.4 Due Apr. 6 Solution April 1 Radiation from a point charge 11.2 Solution 3 Special relativity. 1905 papers: 1, 2 12.1.1-2 April 6 4-D rotations. t-dilation & l-contraction. 12.1.3 Due Apr. 13 Solution 8 Exam (Solution). 2014: Exam (Solution) Solution 10 Writing manifestly covariant expressions. 12.2.1-2 April 13 Kinematics and conservation laws. 12.2.3 Due Apr. 20 Solution 15 Relativistic dynamics 12.2.4 Solution 17 Moving emitters (Doppler effect). April 20 Begin electrodynamics. 12.3.1 Due Apr. 27 Solution 22 How E & B transform. The field tensor 12.3.2-3 Solution 24 Electrodynamics with tensors. 12.3.4 April 27 Field invariants. Due May 4 Solution 29 The 4-vector potential. Solution May 1 Scattering. May 4 Scattering -- None -- Solution 6 Course review May 12 Final exam (Solution). 2014: Exam (Sol) Tuesday, May 12, 8-11 AM in 144 Loomis

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