PHYS 505 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
All reading is from the 3rd edition of J. D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics.
There will be frequent updates to the lecture topics, so check back regularly.
| Week | Date | Approximate Lecture Topic (in progress) | Reading | HW |
| 1 |
Tuesday 8/27/24 |
Lecture 1: Maxwell's equations, Waves, Static limit, Poisson & Laplace Eqs. |
I.1-1.7 | |
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Thursday 8/29/24 |
Lecture 2: Green's Functions, Dirichlet Conditions, Reciprocity |
1.7-1.10 | N/A | |
| 2 |
Tuesday 9/3/24 |
Lecture 3: G(x,x') example, Energy, Separation of variables | 1.11, 2.2, 2.6, 2.8-2.9 | |
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Thursday 9/5/24 |
Lecture 4: Orthogonal functions, Cartesian, spherical, cylindrical | 2.9, 3.1, 3.2, 3.5, 3.7 | HW1 - Due |
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| 3 |
Tuesday 9/10/24 |
Lecture 5: Spherical harmonic expansion for G(x,x') | 3.9 | |
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Thursday 9/12/24 |
Lecture 6: Example of a charged hoop in a spherical cavity | 3.10 | -- | |
| 4 |
Tuesday 9/17/24 |
No class (PA @ Cornell) | ||
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Thursday 9/19/24 |
Lecture 7: Multipole expansion, dielectrics, boundary conditions | 4.1, 4.3, 4.4, 4.7 | HW2 - Due Fri Sept 27 midnight | |
| 5 |
Tuesday 9/24/24 |
No class (PA @ SLAC) | ||
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Thursday 9/26/24 |
Lecture 8: Magnetic field, Vector potential, Magnetic dipoles | 5.2-5.4, 5.6, 5.7 | HW3 - Due |
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| 6 |
Tuesday 10/1/24 |
Lecture 9: Forces on magnetic dipoles, Magnetization | 5.7, 5.8 | |
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Thursday 10/3/24 |
Lecture 10: Permeable media, Magnetic boundary conditions, Magnetic shielding | 5.8, 5.9, 5.12 | ||
| 7 |
Tuesday 10/8/24 |
Lecture 11: Induction, Faraday's law, energy in B fields | 5.15, 5.16, 5.17 | |
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Thursday 10/10/24 |
Lecture 12: Maxwell's equations, Time-varying potentials | 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4 | HW4 - Due |
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| 8 |
Tuesday 10/15/24 |
Lecture 13: Time-dependent Green's functions, Retarded potentials | 6.4, 6.5 | |
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Thursday 10/17/24 |
Lecture 14: Time-dependent G (alternative treatment), Conservation laws | 6.7-6.9 | ||
| 9 |
Tuesday 10/22/24 |
Lecture 15: Harmonic waves | 7.1, 7.2 | |
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Thursday 10/24/24 |
Lecture 16: Heterogeneous media, Fresnel formulas | 7.3, 7.4 |
Due midnight, Friday Nov 1 |
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| 10 |
Tuesday 10/29/24 |
Lecture 17: Optical absorption and dispersion | 7.5, 7.8-7.10 | |
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Thursday 10/31/24 |
Lecture 18: Waveguides, Resonant cavities | 8.1, 8.3-8.5, 8.7, 8.8 | ||
| 11 |
Tuesday 11/5/24 |
No class (PA @ ORNL) | ||
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Thursday 11/7/24 |
Lecture 19: Radiation | 9.1, 9.2 | HW5 - Due |
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| 12 |
Tuesday 11/12/24 |
Lecture 19 -- Radiation, cont. | 9.6, 9.7 | |
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Thursday 11/14/24 |
Lecture 20: Scattering | 10.1, 10.2 + special topics | ||
| 13 |
Tuesday 11/19/24 |
No class (PA sick) | ||
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Thursday 11/21/24 |
No class (PA sick) | |||
| 14 |
Tuesday 11/26/24 |
Fall Break | HW6 - Due Fri Dec 6 midnight | |
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Thursday 11/28/24 |
Fall Break | |||
| 15 |
Tuesday 12/3/24 |
No class (PA in Kyoto) | ||
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Thursday 12/5/24 |
No class (PA in Kyoto) | |||
| 16 |
Tuesday 12/10/24 |
Lecture 21: Topics I missed (EM momentum, stress tensor) | 6.7, I.3, I.4 + special topics |
Due midnight, Saturday Dec 21 |