Physics 402
Fall 2017

Electromagnetism II: time-dependent electromagnetic fields 

Course Materials:

• Week 0: 8/31                  Review of Electrostatics & Magnetostatics
  Physics 402 syllabus
  Thursday, August 31 Lecture: Review of Electrostatics and Magnetostatics
  Introductory Overheads (August 31, 2017)
  
  
• Week 1: 9/5-7            Introduction to Electrodynamics
  Tuesday, September 5 Lecture: Ohm's law and Faraday's law
  Thursday, September 7 Lecture: Inductance, EM Energy, and Charge Conservation
  Problem Set 1 (due Thursday, September 14, 2017)
  
  
• Week 2: 9/12-9/14          Maxwell's Equations
  Tuesday, September 12 Lecture: Maxwell's Equations
  No class on Thursday, September 14, 2017
  
  
• Week 3: 9/19-9/21          Conservation Laws in Electromagnetism
  Tuesday, September 19 Lecture: Poynting's Theorem
  Thursday, September 21 Lecture: EM Momentum and Maxwell's Stress Tensor
  Problem Set 2 (due Thursday, September 28, 2017)
  
  
• Week 4: 9/26-9/28          Electromagnetic Waves
  Tuesday, September 26 Lecture: Plane Waves
  Skin effect slides (Tuesday, September 26, 2017)
  VMEC Summer Scholar Program flyer   [WEBSITE]  application deadline: Friday, November 10, 2017
  Thursday, September 28 Lecture: Electromagnetic waves
  Problem Set 3 (due Thursday, October 5, 2017)
  
  
• Week 5: 10/3-5          Intro to Optics: EM Waves in Matter
  Tuesday, October 3 Lecture: EM waves in Matter
  Thursday, October 5 Lecture: Stokes' Relations and Snell's Law
  Problem Set 4 (due Thursday, October 12, 2017)
  
  
• Week 6: 10/10-12          Optics -- continued
  Tuesday, October 10 Lecture: Fresnel's Equations
  Thursday, October 12 Lecture: Brewster's Angle
  Overheads for October 10-12, 2017 covering p-polarized reflection and transmission, Brewster's angle, and total internal reflection.
  Problem Set 5 (due Thursday, October 26, 2017)
  
  
• Week 7: 10/19                Midterm
  Midterm is Thursday, October 19, 2017.
  
  
• Week 8: 10/24-26      EM Wave in Conductors
  Tuesday, October 24 Lecture: EM Waves in Conductors
  Thursday, October 26 Lecture: Standing Waves
  Problem Set 6 (due Thursday, November 2, 2017)
  
  
• Week 9: 10/31-11/2      Cavities and Transmission Lines
  Tuesday, October 31 Lecture: Fabry-Perot Cavities
  Thursday, November 2 Lecture: Coaxial Cable Transmission Lines
  Problem Set 7 (due Thursday, November 16, 2017)
  
  
• Week 10: 11/7-9      Electrodynamic Potentials
  Tuesday, November 7 Lecture: Electrodynamic Potentials an Gauges
  Thursday, November 9 Lecture: Retarded Potentials
  
  
• Week 11: 11/14-16        EM fields of charges in motion
  Tuesday, November 14 Lecture: EM Fields of Charges in Uniform Motion
  Thursday, November 16 Lecture: EM Fields of Accelerating Charges
  Problem Set 8 (due Thursday, November 30, 2017)
  
  
• Week 12: 11/21       Dipole Radiation
  Tuesday, November 21 Lecture: Dipole Radiation
  Dipole radiation slides (Tuesday, November 21, 2017)
  
  
• Week 13: 11/28-30            Lorentz Transformations of 4-Vectors
  Tuesday, November 28 Lecture: EM Radiation Fields
  Thursday, November 30 Lecture: Special Relativity and Lorentz Transformations
  Problem Set 9 (due Friday, December 8, 2017)
  
  
• Week 14: 12/5-7          Covariant Formulation of Electrodynamics
  Tuesday, December 5 Lecture: Minkowski Space and 4-Vectors
  Thursday, December 7 Lecture: Relativistic Electrodynamics and F^μν
  
  
• Wednesday, December 11, 2017:       Final Exam, 9am-noon, Small Hall 235