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Date:     Topic:     Reading:     Homework:     Checkpoint:     Discussion:       January 18 Introduction. Conservation laws. 2.4.3-4, 7.2.4 Due Jan. 23 Checkpoint 1 Solution 20 Poynting vector, energy flow. 8.1 Solution January 23 Conservation of momentum, stress tensor. 8.2.1-3 Due Jan. 30 Checkpoint 2 Solution 25 Maxwell stress tensor. Solution 27 Angular momentum. Poynting in materials. 8.2.4 January 30 Wave review. Click for P435 lectures 9.1.1-2,4,  9.2.1-3   9.3.1, 9.4.1 Due Feb. 6 Checkpoint 3 Solution February 1 Boundary conditions. Normal incidence. 9.1.3, 9.3.2 Solution 3 Oblique incidence. 9.3.3 February 6 Brewster's angle. Conducting surfaces. 9.4.2 Due Feb. 13 Checkpoint 4 Solution 8 Fourier decomposition Not in the book. Solution 10     ” February 13 Dispersion (video) 9.4.3 Due Feb.20 Checkpoint 5 Solution 15     ” Solution 17 Wave guides. 9.5.1 February 20 TE modes 9.5.2 Due Feb. 27 Checkpoint 6 Solution 22 Exam (Solution) Solution 24 Coaxial cables. Impedance. 9.5.3 27 Resonant cavities. Due Mar. 6 Checkpoint 7 Solution March 1 Vector potential. 10.1.1 Solution 3 Gauge invariance. 10.1.2-3 March 6 Retarded potentials. 10.2.1 Due Mar. 13 Checkpoint 8 Solution 8 Point charges. Liénard-Wiechert potentials. 10.3.1 Solution 10 Fields produced by a moving point charge 10.3.2 March 13 Begin radiation 11.1.1 Due Mar. 27 Checkpoint 9 Solution 15 Electric dipole radiation 11.1.2 Solution 17 Magnetic dipole radiation 11.1.3 March 21 23 -- Spring Break -- 25 March 27 Arbitrary sources 11.1.4 Due Apr. 3 Checkpoint 10 Solution 29 Radiation from a point charge 11.2 Solution 31 Special relativity. 1905 papers: 1, 2 12.1.1-2 April 3 4-D rotations. t-dilation & l-contraction. 12.1.3 Due Apr. 10 Checkpoint 11 Solution 5 Exam (Solution) Solution 7 Writing manifestly covariant expressions. 12.2.1-2 April 10 Kinematics and conservation laws. 12.2.3 Due Apr. 17 Checkpoint 12 Solution 12 Relativistic dynamics 12.2.4 Solution 14 Moving emitters (Doppler effect). April 17 Begin electrodynamics. 12.3.1 Due Apr. 24 Checkpoint 13 Solution 19 How E & B transform. The field tensor 12.3.2-3 Solution 21 Field invariants. April 24 Electrodynamics with tensors. 12.3.4 Due May 1 Checkpoint 14 Solution 26 Covariant Maxwell's equations. Solution 28 No Class 12.3.5 May 1 Scattering (not in book) -- None -- 3 Scattering (not on exam) May 5 Final exam 7PM - 10PM in 144 Loomis

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