Physics 402
Fall 2016

Electromagnetism II: time-dependent electromagnetic fields 

Course Materials:

• Week 0: 8/25                  Review of Electrostatics & Magnetostatics
  Physics 402 syllabus
  Introductory Overheads (August 25, 2016)
  
  
• Week 1: 8/30-9/1            Introduction to Electrodynamics
  Problem Set 1 (due Thursday, September 8, 2016)
  
  
• Week 2: 9/6-9/8          Maxwell's Equations & Conservation Laws in Electromagnetism
  Problem Set 2 (due Thursday, September 15, 2016)
  
  
• Week 3: 9/13-9/15          Electromagnetic Waves
  Skin effect slides (Tuesday, September 13, 2016)
  Problem Set 3 (due Thursday, September 28, 2016)
  
  
• Week 4: 9/20-9/22          Intro to Optics: Electromagnetic Waves in Mattter
  Problem Set 4 (due Thursday, September 29, 2016)
  
  
• Week 5: 9/27-9/29          Optics -- continued
  Problem Set 5 (due Thursday, October 6, 2016.)
  Overheads for September 29, 2016 covering p-polarized reflection and transmission, as well as Brewster's angle.
  
  
• Week 6: 10/4-10/6          EM waves in conductors
  Problem Set 6 (due Thursday, October 27, 2016)
  
  
• Week 7: 10/13                Midterm
  Midterm is Thursday, October 13, 2016.
  
  
• Week 8: 10/18-10/20      Resonators and Transmission Lines
  
  
  
• Week 9: 10/27-10/29      Electrodynamic Potentials
  Problem Set 7 (originally due Thursday, November 3, 2016)
  
  
• Week 10: 11/1-11/3        EM fields of charges in motion
  Problem Set 7 (new version) (due Thursday, November 10, 2016)
  
  
• Week 11: 11/8-11/10       Dipole Radiation
  Problem Set 8 (revised) (due Thursday, November 17, 2016)
  
  
• Week 12: 11/15-11/17       EM Radiation
  Dipole radiation slides (Tuesday, November 15, 2016)
  Problem Set 9 (due Friday, December 2, 2016)
  
  
• Week 13: 11/22            Lorentz Transformations of 4-Vectors
  
  
• Week 14: 11/29-12/1          Covariant Formulation of Electrodynamics and EM Simulation
  EM Simulation Tutorial with FEKO (Thursday, December 1, 2016)
  
  
• Wednesday, December 7, 2016:       Final Exam, 9am-noon, Small Hall 233