Physics 402
Fall 2015

Electromagnetism II: time-dependent electromagnetic fields 

Course Materials:

• Week 0: 8/27                  Review of Electrostatics & Magnetostatics
  Physics 402 syllabus
  Introductory Overheads (August 27, 2015)
  
  
• Week 1: 9/3-9/5            Introduction to Electrodynamics
  Problem Set 1 (due Thursday, September 10, 2015)
  
  
• Week 2: 9/8-9/10          Maxwell's Equations & Conservation Laws in Electromagnetism
  Problem Set 2 (due Thursday, September 17, 2015)
  
  
• Week 3: 9/15-9/17          Electromagnetic Waves
  Skin effect slides (Tuesday, September 15, 2015)
  Problem Set 3 (due Thursday, September 24, 2015)
  
  
• Week 4: 9/22-9/24          Intro to Optics: Electromagnetic Waves in Mattter
  Problem Set 4 (due Thursday, October 1, 2015)
  
  
• Week 5: 9/29-10/1          Optics -- continued
  Problem Set 5 (due Thursday, October 8, 2015.)
  Overheads for October 1, 2015 covering p-polarized reflection and transmission, as well as Brewster's angle.
  
  
• Week 6: 10/6-10/8          EM waves in conductors
  Problem Set 6 (due Thursday, October 29, 2015)
  
  
• Week 7: 10/17                Midterm
  Midterm is Thursday, October 15, 2015.
  
  
• Week 8: 10/20-10/22      Resonators and Transmission Lines
  
  
  
• Week 9: 10/27-10/29      Electrodynamic Potentials
  Problem Set 7 (original version) (orginally due Thursday, November 5, 2015)
  
  
• Week 10: 11/3-11/5        EM fields of charges in motion
  Problem Set 7 (new version) (due Thursday, November 12, 2015)
  
  
• Week 11: 11/10-11/12       Dipole Radiation
  Problem Set 8 (revised) (due Thursday, November 19, 2015)
  
  
• Week 12: 11/17-11/19       EM Radiation
  Dipole radiation slides (Tuesday, November 17, 2015)
  Problem Set 9 (due Friday, December 4, 2015)
  
  
• Week 13: 11/24            Lorentz Transformations of 4-Vectors
  
  
• Week 14: 12/1-12/3          Covariant Formulation of Electrodynamics and EM Simulation
  EM Simulation Tutorial with FEKO (Thursday, December 3, 2015)
  
  
• Wednesday, December 16, 2013:       Final Exam, 9am-noon, Small Hall 233