| Week 1: 8/26 | Electrostatics: week1.pdf, units.pdf, Expansion in eignen-functions, |
| Week 2: 9/2 | Electrostatics and Multipoles: week2.pdf, Series expansions of Laplace equations |
| Week 3: 9/9 | Dielectrics : week3.pdf |
| Week 4: 9/16 | Dielectrics. Currents and Ohms Law. Magnetostics week4.pdf |
| Week 5: 9/23 | Magnetic materials. Maxwell equations and quasistatic approximation: week5.pdf |
| Week 6: 9/30 | Quasi-statics. Summary of Consv. Laws. week6.pdf |
| Week 7: 10/7 | Waves. Propagation of waves in media and interfaces continued: week7.pdf |
| Week 8: 10/14 | Retarded Green functions |
| Week 9: 10/21 | Multipole radiation and radiation from slow charges : non-relativistic radiation |
| Week 10: 10/28 | Relativity and Electrodynamics: relativity part i |
| Week 11: 11/4 | Relativity and Electrodynamics continued relativity part ii |
| Week 12: 11/11 | Radiation from relativistic charges relativistic radiation part i |
| Week 13: 11/18 | Radiation from relativistic charges continued relativistic radiation part ii |
| Thanksgiving week | Class Monday, then break |
| Week 14: 12/2 | Scattering Scattering |
| Week 1: 8/26 | Electrostatics: l1.pdf, l2.pdf, l3.pdf, l4.pdf, l5.pdf |
| Week 2: 9/2 | Electrostatics and Multipoles: l6.pdf, l7.pdf, l89.pdf, |
| Week 3: 9/9 | Dielectrics : l10.pdf, l11.pdf, l12.pdf, l13.pdf, |
| Week 4: 9/16 | Finsih Dielectrics. Currents, Conductivity, Ohms Law. Magnetostatics. l14.pdf, l15.pdf, l16.pdf, l17.pdf, |
| Week 5: 9/23 | Magnetic materials. Maxwell equations and quasistatic approximation: l18.pdf, l19.pdf, l20.pdf |
| Week 6: 9/30 | More about quasi-statics. Maxwell Equations for Potentials. Conservation Laws. l21.pdf, l22.pdf l23.pdf l24.pdf |
| Week 7: 10/7 | Waves. Propagation of waves in media and interfaces continued: l25.pdf, l26.pdf, l27.pdf |
| Week 8: 10/14 | Retarded Green Functions for oscillator and waves eqn. Kramers Kronig. l28.pdf, l29.pdf, l30.pdf |
| Week 9: 10/21 | Multipole radiation, and radiation from slow charges l31.pdf, retarded_time.pdf, l32.pdf, l33.pdf |
| Week 10: 10/28 | Finish multipoles, Relativity l34.pdf, l35.pdf, l36.pdf |
| Week 11: 11/4 | Relativity and Electrodynamics continued. Exam. l37.pdf, l38+bit of 39.pdf, exam1, exam1_sol |
| Week 12: 11/11 | Radiation from relativistic charges. l40.pdf, l41.pdf, l42.pdf |
| Week 13: 11/18 | Radiation from relativistic charges continued. l43.pdf, l44.pdf, l45.pdf |
| Thanksgiving week | Bremsstrahlung: l46 |
| Week 14: 12/2 | Scattering and Diffraction: l47, l48, l49 |
| Week 1: | hw1, hw1_sol |
| Week 2: | hw2, hw2_sol |
| Week 3: | hw3, hw3_sol |
| Week 4: | hw4, hw4_sol |
| Week 5: | hw5, hw5_sol |
| Week 6: | hw6, hw6_sol |
| Week 7-8: | hw7, |
| Week 9-10: | hw8, hw8_sol.pdf |
| Week 11: | exam1, exam1_sol |
| Week 12: | hw9, hw9_sol |
| Week 13: | hw10, hw10_sol |
| Week 14: | hw11, hw11_sol |
This is an intense one semester graduate course in Classical Electrodynamics. We begin with a very brief review of electrostatics and magnetostatics where the required special functions and Green function techniques are introduced. After this introduction, we describe Faraday's Law and the quasi-static approximation to the Maxwell system. Following these developments we study the propagation of light in media, and categorize the response functions of typical materials. Subsequently we describe diffractive and scattering phenomena with partially coherent light. Then we discuss multipole radiation, placing classical electrodynamics within the context of special relativity. This formalism is used to study radiation in various contexts. The course will emphasize problem solving.
The structure and tentative order of the course is the following
The following is a portrait of Faraday. May his memory inspire young experimentalists, and young theorists to listen to them.
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The course consists of three lecture hours and two hour recitation. Recitations will be used to discuss problems.
Please feel free to contact me at anytime. My official office hours are,
The final exam is on Tuesday, December 17 from 2:15--5:00 p.m in P130.
The grading will be based roughly on the following table. I reserve the right to change these proportions (within reasonable limits) as the course progresses. My intent of course is to follow these guidelines.
| Homework | 25% |
| Midterm Exam | 35% |
| Final Exam | 40% |
Homeworks will be assigned weekly, and will be collected ** at the start of class ** . Homework handed in within a day after the due date/time will by given a 5% penalty. After this, late homeworks will be penalized at 10% per day.
The required book for the course is
Some other books which I used when preparing the course are:
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