Physics 402
Fall 2010

Electromagnetism II: time-dependent electromagnetic fields 

Course Materials:

• Week 0: 8/26                  Review of Electrostatics & Magnetostatics
  Physics 402 syllabus
  
  
• Week 1: 8/31-9/2            Introduction to Electrodynamics
  Problem Set 1 (due Thursday, September 9, 2010)
  
  
• Week 2: 9/7-9/9              Maxwell's Equations
  Problem Set 2 (due Thursday, September 16, 2010)
  
  
• Week 3: 9/14-9/16          Conservation Laws in Electrodynamics
  Problem Set 3 (due Thursday, September 23, 2010)
  
  
• Week 4: 9/21-9/23          Electromagnetic Waves
  Problem Set 4 (due Thursday, September 30, 2010)
  
  
• Week 5: 9/28-9/30          Reflection and Refraction I
  Problem Set 5 (due Thursday, October 7, 2010)
  
  
• Week 6: 10/5-10/7          Reflection and Refraction II: Fresnel's Equations
  Problem Set 6 (due Thursday, October 21, 2010)
  
  
• Week 7: 10/14          Midterm Exam
  
  
• Week 8: 10/19-10/21          Waves in Conductors, and Transmission Lines
  Problem Set 7 (due Thursday, October 28, 2010)
  
  
• Week 9: 10/26-10/28          Electrodynamic Potentials
  Problem Set 8 (due Thursday, November 4, 2010)
  
  
• Week 10: 11/2-11/4          E-M fields of charges in motion
  Problem Set 9 (due Thursday, November 11, 2010)
  
  
• Week 11: 11/9-11/11          Dipole Radiation
  Problem Set 10 (due Thursday, November 18, 2010)
  
  
• Week 12: 11/16-11/18          Synchrotron Radiation, Radiation Reaction, and Diffraction Theory
  Problem Set 11 (due Thursday, November 23, 2010)
  
  
• Week 13: 11/23          Lorentz Transformations
  
  
• Week 14: 11/30-12/2          Covariant Formulation of Electrodynamics
  Problem Set 12 (due by end of semester)
  
  
• Tuesday, December 7, 2010:       Final Exam, 9am-noon