PHYS 436 Spring 2022
PHYS 436 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
All problems are from the 3rd edition of Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics. If you are using the 4th edition, refer to the individual pdf files for specific problems.
| Week | Date | Topic | Reading (Griffiths Sections) | Homework | Discussion | |
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| 1 | - | - |
No discussion |
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| Wednesday 1/19/2022 |
No class | |||||
| Friday 1/21/2022 |
Lecture 1 (on Zoom) Introduction, Conservation Laws, Poynting's Theorem |
8.1.1, 8.1.2 |
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| 2 | Monday 1/24/2022 |
No class |
Due Friday, Feb 4 @ 5 pm |
No discussion | ||
| Wednesday 1/26/2022 |
Lecture 1 (on Zoom) Conservation laws, cont. |
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| Friday 1/28/2022 |
Lecture 2 Momentum in E&M, Maxwell Stress Tensor |
8.2.1, 8.2.2 |
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| 3 | Monday 1/31/2022 |
Lecture 3 Maxwell Stress Tensor, cont. |
8.2.2 |
Due Friday, Feb 11 @ 5 pm | Discussion 1 | |
| Wednesday 2/2/2022 |
Lecture 4 Conservation of Momentum |
8.2.3 |
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| Friday 2/4/2022 |
Lecture 5 Angular Momentum in E&M |
8.2.4 |
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| 4 | Monday 2/7/2022 |
Lecture 6 Classical Wave Equation |
9.1.1-9.1.4 (selected topics) |
Due Friday, Feb 18 @ 5 pm | Discussion 2 | |
| Wednesday 2/9/2022 |
Lecture 7 Electromagnetic Waves |
9.2.1, 9.2.2 |
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| Friday 2/11/2022 |
Lecture 8 Energy and Momentum of EM Waves |
9.2.3 |
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| 5 | Monday 2/14/2022 |
Lecture 9 EM Waves in Linear Media |
9.3.1 |
Due Friday, Feb 25 @ 5 pm | Discussion 3 | |
| Wednesday 2/16/2022 |
Lecture 10 Reflection and Transmission at an Interface |
9.3.2, 9.3.3 |
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Friday |
Lecture 11 Fresnel Formulas |
9.3.3 |
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| 6 | Monday 2/21/2022 |
Lecture 11, continued |
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No homework | Discussion 4 | |
| Wednesday 2/23/2022 |
Lecture 12 EM Waves in Conductors |
9.4.1, 9.4.2 |
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| Friday 2/25/2022 |
Lecture 13 Absorption, Optical Dispersion |
9.4.3 |
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| 7 | Monday 2/28/2022 |
Lecture 14 Waveguides |
9.5.1, 9.5.2 |
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No discussion | |
| Wednesday 3/2/2022 |
Lecture 15 Transmission Lines |
9.5.2, 9.5.3 |
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| Friday 3/4/2022 |
Hour Exam I |
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| 8 | Monday 3/7/2022 |
Lecture 16 Resonant Cavities |
Problem 9.38 |
Due Friday, Mar 25 @ 5 pm | Discussion 5 | |
| Wednesday 3/9/2022 |
Lecture 17 Potential Formulation of Electrodynamics |
10.1.1, 10.1.2 |
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| Friday 3/11/2022 |
Lecture 18 Gauge Transformations |
10.1.2, 10.1.3 |
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| 9 | Monday 3/14/2022 |
Spring Break | - | - | ||
| Wednesday 3/16/2022 |
Spring Break | |||||
| Friday 3/18/2022 |
Spring Break | |||||
| 10 | Monday 3/21/2022 |
Lecture 19 Retarded and Advanced Potentials |
10.2.1, 10.2.2 |
Due |
Discussion 6 | |
| Wednesday 3/23/2022 |
Lecture 20 Liénard-Wiechert Potentials |
10.3.1 |
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| Friday 3/25/2022 |
Lecture 21 Liénard-Wiechert Potentials, cont. |
10.3.1 |
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| 11 | Monday 3/28/2022 |
Lecture 22 Fields from a Moving Point Charge |
10.3.2 |
Due |
Discussion 7 | |
| Wednesday 3/30/2022 |
Lecture 23 Electromagnetic Radiation |
11.1.1, 11.1.2 |
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| Friday 4/1/2022 |
Lecture 24 Dipole Radiation, Antennas |
11.1.2 cont., 11.1.3 |
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| 12 | Monday 4/4/2022 |
Lecture 25 Radiation from Higher Order Multipoles |
11.1.4 |
No homework | Discussion 8 | |
| Wednesday 4/6/2022 |
Lecture 26 Larmor Formula |
11.2.1, 11.2.2 |
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| Friday 4/8/2022 |
Lecture 27 Radiation Reaction, Abraham-Lorentz Formula |
11.2.2, 11.2.3 | ||||
| 13 | Monday 4/11/2022 |
Lecture 28 Review of Special Relativity |
12.1.1, 12.1.2 |
Due |
No discussion | |
| Wednesday 4/13/2022 |
Lecture 28, cont. |
12.1.3, 12.1.4 |
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| Friday 4/15/2022 |
Hour Exam II |
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| 14 | Monday 4/18/2022 |
Lecture 29 Lorentz Transformations |
12.2.1, 12.2.2 |
Due |
Discussion 9 | |
| Wednesday 4/20/2022 |
Lecture 30 Relativistic Dynamics |
12.2.3, 12.2.4 |
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| Friday 4/22/2022 |
Lecture 31 Hidden Momentum |
12.3.1, 12.3.2 |
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| 15 | Monday 4/25/2022 |
Lecture 32 Magnetism as a Relativistic Phenomenon |
12.3.2 |
Due Wed, May 4 @ 5 pm | Discussion 10 | |
| Wednesday 4/27/2022 |
Lecture 33 Lorentz Transformation of E and B |
12.3.3, 12.3.4 | ||||
| Friday 4/29/2022 |
Lecture 34 Electromagnetic Field Tensor |
12.3.4, 12.3.5 | ||||
| 16 |
Monday |
Lecture 35 Maxwell's Equations in Covariant Form |
12.3.4, 12.3.5 | |||
| Discussion 11 | ||||||
| Wednesday 5/4/2022 |
No class | |||||
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TBA |
Final Exam, TBA |