Final exam
Guide to exam and list of problems
- A detailed guide to the exam and a survey of the problems to help you prepare is here
Basic content
- Green function of the wave equation
- Radiation and non-relativistic scattering of light
- Relativity and electrodynamics, gauge invariance, fundamentals of Maxwell equations.
- Radiation from relativitistic particles. Power and frequency spectrum
Past exams and comps problems
- Past comprehensive exam problems comps
- The 2013 exam and solution
- The 2014 exam and solution
- The 2015 exam and solution
- The 2016 exam and its solution
First Midterm Exam
Basic content
The first midterm covers the first ten chapters of the course notes:
- The Maxwell Equations:
- Electrostatics,
and electric fields in matter:
- The multiple expansion and forces and torques on multipoles
- Magnetostatics, magnetism, and magnetic fields in matter:
- Magnetic dipoles moments, and forces and torques on multipoles
- The Maxwell equations, conservation laws, induction, and energy in magnetostatics:
- Propagation of waves in media and at interfaces. Dispersion.
Detailed list of topics
A more detailed list of topics is here
Past exams
Past exams are given here (though many of these were too long)
- The 2013 exam and solution
- The 2014 exam and solution
- The 2015 exam and solution
- The 2016 exam and its solution
Relevant problems from SBU comprehensive exams
A list of problems which have appeared on the SBU qualifying exam are here