Physics 402
Fall 2011

Electromagnetism II: time-dependent electromagnetic fields 

Course Materials:

• Week 0: 8/25                  Review of Electrostatics & Magnetostatics
  Physics 402 syllabus
  Introductory Overheads (August 25, 2011)
  
  
• Week 1: 8/30-9/1            Introduction to Electrodynamics
  Problem Set 1 (due Tuesday, September 13, 2011)
  
  
• Week 2: 9/6-9/8              Maxwell's Equations
  
  
• Week 3: 9/13-9/15          Conservation Laws in Electrodynamics
  Problem Set 2 (due Thursday, September 22, 2011)
  
  
• Week 4: 9/20-9/22          Electromagnetic Waves
  Problem Set 3 (due Thursday, September 29, 2010)
  
  
• Week 5: 9/27-9/29          Introduction to Optics: EM Waves in Matter
  Problem Set 4 (due Thursday, October 6, 2010)
  Overheads for September 29, 2011 covering Brewster's angle and total internal reflection.
  
  
• Week 6: 10/4-10/6          EM waves in conductors
  Problem Set 5 (due Thursday, October 13/20, 2011)
  
  
• Week 7: 10/13                EM Cavities and Resonators
  
  
• Week 8: 10/18-10/20      Transmission Lines
  Midterm: Tuesday, October 18, 2011.
  Problem Set 6 (due Thursday, October 27, 2011)
  
  
• Week 9: 10/25-10/27      Electrodynamic Potentials
  Overheads for Tuesday, October 25, 2011 covering summer research opportunities.
  Problem Set 7 (due Thursday, November 3, 2011)
  
  
• Week 10: 11/1-11/3        EM fields of charges in motion: Dipole Radiation
  Problem Set 8 (due Thursday, November 10, 2011)
  
  
• Week 11: 11/8-11/10          Dipole Radiation, Synchrotron Radiation, and Radiation Reaction
  Problem Set 9 (due Thursday, November 17, 2011)
  
  
• Week 12: 11/15-11/17          Diffraction Theory and Special Relativity
  Problem Set 10 (due Thursday, December 1, 2011)
  
  
• Week 13: 11/22          Lorentz Transformations of 4-Vectors
  
  
• Week 14: 11/29-12/1          Covariant Formulation of Electrodynamics
  
  
• Wednesday, December 14, 2011:       Final Exam, 9am-noon