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Physics 402
Fall 2012
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Electromagnetism II: time-dependent electromagnetic fields
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Course Materials:
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Week 0:
8/30
Review of Electrostatics & Magnetostatics
Physics 402
syllabus
Introductory Overheads
(August 30, 2012)
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Week 1:
9/4-9/6
Introduction to Electrodynamics
Problem Set 1 (due
Thursday, September 13, 2012)
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Week 2:
9/11-9/13
Maxwell's Equations
Problem Set 2 (due
Thursday, September 20, 2012)
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Week 3:
9/18-9/20 Conservation
Laws in Electrodynamics
Problem Set 3 (due
Thursday, September 27, 2012)
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Week 4: 9/25-9/27
Electromagnetic Waves
Problem Set 3 (due
Thursday, October 4, 2012)
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Week 5:
10/2-10/4 Introduction
to Optics: EM Waves in Matter
Problem Set 5 (originally
due Thursday, October 11, 2012, but extended to October 18, 2012.)
Overheads
for October 4, 2012 covering p-polarized reflection and transmission,
as well as Brewster's angle.
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Week 6:
10/9-10/11 EM waves
in conductors
Overheads
for October 9, 2012 on total internal reflection.
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Week 7:
10/18 EM
Cavities and Resonators
Overheads for Thursday,
October 18
Problem Set 6
(due Thursday, November 1, 2012)
Midterm date has been set for Thursday, October 25, 2012.
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Week 8: 10/23-10/25 Transmission Lines
Midterm: Thursday, October 25, 2012.
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Week 9: 10/30-11/1 Electrodynamic
Potentials
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Week 10: 11/6-11/8 EM fields
of charges in motion
Problem Set 7 (due
Tuesday, November 13, 2012)
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Week 11:
11/13-11/15 Dipole
Radiation
Problem Set 8 (due
Tuesday, November 20, 2012)
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Week 12:
11/20 Synchrotron Radiation and Radiation Reaction
Problem Set 9 (revised)
(due Tuesday, December 4, 2012)
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Week 13:
11/27-11/29 Scalar Diffraction Theory; Lorentz
Transformations of 4-Vectors
Problem Set 10
(target date Thursday, December 6, 2012)
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Week 14:
12/4-12/6 Covariant
Formulation of Electrodynamics
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Monday, December 17, 2012: Final Exam,
9am-noon
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