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 |
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| 1 |
Tuesday 8/25/24 |
Lecture 1: Maxwell's Equations, EM Waves, Static Limit (Poisson & Laplace Eqs.) |
1.1-1.7, 6.1, 6.2 | |
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Thursday 8/27/24 |
Lecture 2: Conservation of Charge and Energy |
5.16, 6.7 | N/A | |
| 2 |
Tuesday 9/1/24 |
Lecture 3: Conservation of Momentum, Maxwell Stress Tensor |
6.7 | |
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Thursday 9/3/24 |
Lecture 4: Green's Functions, Dirichlet Conditions, Reciprocity |
1.7-1.10 |
Due @ Midnight, |
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| 3 |
Tuesday 9/8/24 |
Lecture 5: G(x,x') Example, Separation of Variables |
1.11, 2.2, 2.6, 2.8-2.9 | |
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Thursday 9/10/24 |
Lecture 6: Orthogonal Functions -- Cartesian, Spherical, Cylindrical |
2.9, 3.1, 3.2, 3.5, 3.7 | ||
| 4 |
Tuesday 9/15/24 |
No Class (PA in Rome) |
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Thursday 9/17/24 |
Lecture 7: Spherical Harmonic Expansion for G(x,x') |
3.9 |
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| 5 |
Tuesday 9/22/24 |
Lecture 8: Example of a Charged Hoop in a Spherical Cavity |
3.10 | |
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Thursday 9/24/24 |
No Class (PA at SLAC) |
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| 6 |
Tuesday 9/29/24 |
Lecture 9: Multipole Expansion, Dielectrics, Boundary Conditions |
4.1, 4.3, 4.4, 4.7 |
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Thursday 10/1/24 |
Lecture 10: Magnetic Field, Vector Potential, Magnetic Dipoles |
5.2-5.4, 5.6, 5.7
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| 7 |
Tuesday 10/6/24 |
Lecture 11: Forces on Magnetic Dipoles, Magnetization |
5.7, 5.8
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Thursday 10/8/24 |
In-Class Exam 1 (PA in New Hampshire) |
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| 8 |
Tuesday 10/13/24 |
Lecture 12: Permeable Media, Magnetic Boundary Conditions, Magnetic Shielding |
5.8, 5.9, 5.12 | |
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Thursday 10/15/24 |
Lecture 13: Time-Dependent Potentials, Gauge Invariance, Induction |
5.17, 6.2, 6.3, 6.6 | ||
| 9 |
Tuesday 10/20/24 |
Lecture 14: Time-Dependent Green's Functions, Causality |
6.4, lecture notes | |
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Thursday 10/22/24 |
Lecture 15: Harmonic Waves |
7.1, 7.2 | ||
| 10 |
Tuesday 10/27/24 |
Lecture 16: Heterogeneous Media, Fresnel Reflectivity |
7.3, 7.4 | |
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Thursday 10/29/24 |
Lecture 17: Optical Dispersion, Kramers-Kronig Relations, Causality |
7.5, 7.8-7.10 |
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| 11 |
Tuesday 11/3/24 |
Lecture 18: (Time permitting) Nonlinear Optics |
lecture notes only | |
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Thursday 11/5/24 |
Lecture 19: Waveguides, Resonant Cavities |
8.1, 8.3-8.5, 8.7, 8.8 |
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| 12 |
Tuesday 11/10/24 |
Lecture 20: Radiation | 9.1, 9.2 | |
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Thursday 11/12/24 |
In-Class Exam 2 (PA @ Notre Dame) |
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| 13 |
Tuesday 11/17/24 |
Lecture 21: Rayleigh-Schrödinger Perturbation Theory, Scattering |
10.1, 10.2 + lecture notes | |
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Thursday 11/19/24 |
Lecture 22: Crash Review of Special Relativity |
lecture notes only | ||
| 14 |
Tuesday 11/24/24 |
Fall Break | ||
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Thursday 11/26/24 |
Fall Break | |||
| 15 |
Tuesday 12/1/24 |
Lecture 23: Resolving the Hidden Momentum Paradox |
lecture notes only | |
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Thursday 12/3/24 |
Lecture 24: Lorentz Transformation of E & B, Field Tensor |
lecture notes only | ||
| 16 |
Tuesday 12/8/24 |
Lecture 25: EM Lagrangian, Covariant Formulation of E&M |
12.7, lecture notes | |
| 17 | TBA |
In-Class Final Exam (date and time TBA)
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