PHYS 436 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
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1 | Monday 8/27/2018 |
Lecture 1 Review Maxwell's Equations, Electrostatic Potential, Magnetic Vector Potential |
Griffiths Chapters 2, 3, 5
Griffiths Chapter 4, 6
Griffiths Chapter 7
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Homework 1 Solution |
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Wednesday 8/29/2018 |
Lecture 2 Electric and Magnetic Fields in Matter Boundary conditions on D, E, B and H |
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Friday 8/31/2018 |
Lecture 3 Faraday's Law and the Ampere/Maxwell Law Inductances and derivation of the Wave Equation |
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2 | Monday 9/03/2018 |
No Lecture Labor Day |
Griffiths 9.1 and 9.2
Griffiths 8.1 and 8.2 |
Assigned 9/03, due 5 pm on 9/11
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Wednesday 9/05/2018 |
Lecture 4 Wave Equation, Plane Waves and Polarization |
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Friday 9/07/2018 |
Lecture 5 Energy Flux, Poynting's Vector, Conservation of Energy Discussion of Levi Civita Symbol Also check out Three dimensions definition in this file: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi-Civita_symbol Also in the product section look at "A special case of this result is (4):" We will use this product again on Monday |
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3 | Monday 9/10/2018 |
Lecture 6 EM Momentum Density, Total Momentum is Field plus Mechanical Conservation of Total Momentum |
Griffiths 9.3 |
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Wednesday 9/12/2018 |
Lecture 7 Maxwell Stress Tensor |
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Friday 9/14/2018 |
Lecture 8 Propagation of EM radiation in dielectrics, Polarization current densithy |
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4 | Monday 98/17/2018 |
Lecture 9 Microscopic model of dielectric response Complex dielectric function |
Griffiths 9.4.3 . Notes
Notes
Notes
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Wednesday 9/19/2018 |
Lecture 10 Phase Velocity, Fourier Transforms, Wave packets, Group Velocity |
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Friday 9/21/2018 |
Lecture 11 Review HW4 |
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5 | Monday 9/24/2018 |
Lecture 12 Birefringence |
Griffiths 9.3.2 and 9.3.3 Notes for useful formula
Notes
Griffiths 9.3 and notes |
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Wednesday 9/26/2018 |
Lecture 13 Faraday Effect and Magneto-Optical behavior Note: This is NOT Faraday's Law. It's a separate discovery. |
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Wednesday 530 - 620 |
Lecture 14 Reflection and Refraction at Dielectric Interfaces Polarization in the Plane of Incidence Brewster's Angle |
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6 | Monday 10/01/2018 |
Lecture 15 Review of Hints for HW5 Finish Reflection at Dielectric Interfaces Polarization out of Plane of Incidence pdf of homework discussion |
Griffiths 9.4 and notes |
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Wednesday 10/03/2018 |
Lecture 16 Propagation of EM waves in conductors and plasmas |
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Friday 10/05/2018 |
Lecture 17 Reflection of EM waves from conductors |
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7 | Monday 10/08/2018 |
Lecture 18 Waveguides I |
Griffiths 9.5 and notes |
No Homework Midterm next Monday |
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Wednesday 10/10/2018 |
Lecture 19 Waveguides II |
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Friday 10/12/2018 |
Lecture 20 Waveguides III |
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8 | Monday 10/15/2018 |
Lecture 21 Time dependent Potential Theory |
Griffiths 10.1 and 10.2.1 |
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Exam, 7-830 pm Loomis 144 |
Wednesday 10/17/2018 |
Lecture 22 Solution for time dependent potential functions Lecture on same topic from physics 505 (from page 277 on) |
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Friday 10/19/2018 |
Lecture 23 Electric Dipole Radiation |
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9 | Monday 10/22/2018 |
Lecture 24 Magnetic Dipole Radiation |
Griffiths § Notes |
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Wednesday 10/24/2018 |
Lecture 25 Radiation from a Polarization Wave |
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Friday 10/26/2018 |
Lecture 26 Non-Linear Optics |
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10 | Monday 10/29/2018 |
Lecture 27 Non-Linear Optics The first part of these notes is the same as the notes for Lect 26 |
Notes |
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Wednesday 10/31/2018 |
Lecture 28 Applications of Nonlinear Optics Second Harmonic Generation, Sum and Difference Freq Generation A bit on Gaussian Optics |
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Friday 11/2/2018 |
Lecture 29 Electro-optic Effect, EO modulators |
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11 | Monday 11/05/2018 |
Lecture 30 Coordinate Transformations in Special Relativity Lorentz Transformations |
Griffiths § |
Homework 10
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Discussion 11
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Wednesday 11/07/2018 |
Lecture 31 Lorentz transformations of 4 vectors Lambda Matrices and Covariant and Contravariant 4-vectors |
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Friday 11/09/2018 |
Lecture 32 Time/Position 4 vector Transformation Wave Vector 4 vector Transformation≈ |
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12 | Monday 11/12/2018 |
Lecture 33 Time/Position 4 vector Transformation Energy/Momentum 4 vector Transformationpdf |
Griffiths § |
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Discussion 12 |
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Wednesday 11/14/2018 |
Lecture 34 Relativistic Equations of Particle Motion What happens to F=ma in Special Relativity? |
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Friday 11/16/2018 |
Lecture 35 Covariant Electromagnetism How do Electric and Magnetic Fields transform from one IRF to another |
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13 | Monday 11/19/2018 |
No Lecture |
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Wednesday 11/21/2018 |
No Lecture |
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Friday 11/23/2018 |
No Lecture |
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14 | Monday 11/26/2018 |
Lecture 36 Electric and Magnetic Fields from a Moving Charge You have to transform coordinates and fields to do this! |
Griffiths § |
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Discussion 13
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Wednesday 11/28/2018 |
Lecture 37 Field Pattern Transformations |
Exam, 7-830 pm | ||||
Friday 11/30/2018 |
Lecture 38 Maxwell's Equations in Covariant Form This means in terms of Lorentz Scalars, 4-vectors and 4-tensors. |
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15 | Monday 12/03/2018 |
Lecture 39 Radiation from a Relativisitic Charge Two ways to do this: Field Transformations |
Griffiths § |
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Discussion 14&15 |
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Wednesday 12/05/2018 |
Lecture 40 Radiation from a Relativisitic Charge Two ways to do this: Retarded Potentials |
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Friday 12/07/2018 |
Lecture 41 Finish Radiation from a Relativisitic Charge |
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16 | Monday 12/10/2018 |
Lecture 42 Review I |
Same as discussion 14 | |||
Wednesday 12/12/2018 |
Lecture 43 Review II |
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Tuesday 12/18/2018 130-430 pm Loomis 144 Loomis 143 |
Final: 3 hours |