PHYS 436 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
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| 1 | Monday 1/14/2019 |
Introduction Conservation Laws |
§ 8.1.1 |
Posted 1/18 Due 1/25 |
No discussion this week |
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| Wednesday 1/16/2019 |
Conservation of energy Poynting's theorem |
§ 8.1.2 § 8.2.1 |
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| Friday 1/18/2019 |
Maxwell's stress tensor |
§ 8.2.2 |
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| 2 | Monday 1/21/2019 |
No Lecture Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday |
Posted 1/25 Due 2/1
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| Wednesday 1/23/2019 |
Conservation of momentum |
§ 8.2.3 |
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| Friday 1/25/2019 |
Angular momentum |
§ 8.2.4 |
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| 3 | Monday 1/28/2019 |
Electromagnetic waves Energy and momentum 1 |
§ 9.1 § 9.2 |
Posted 2/1 Due 2/8 |
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| Wednesday 1/30/2019 |
CLASS CANCELLED DUE TO SNOW. NOTES DISCUSSED IN THE NEXT CLASS Energy and momentum Electromagnetic waves in matter |
§ 9.2.3 |
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| Friday 2/1/2019 |
Electromagnetic waves in matter Boundary conditions |
§ 9.3.1 |
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| 4 | Monday 2/4/2019 |
Normal incidence |
§ 9.3.2 |
Posted 2/8 Due 2/15
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| Wednesday 2/6/2019 |
Oblique incidence |
§ 9.3.3 |
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| Friday 2/8/2019 |
Brewster's angle |
§ 9.3.3 § 9.4.1 |
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| 5 | Monday 2/11/2019 |
Conducting surfaces |
§ 9.4.2 |
Posted 2/15 Due 2/22 |
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| Wednesday 2/13/2019 |
Fourier Decomposition |
§ 9.4.3 |
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Friday |
Dispersion |
§ 9.4.3 |
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| 6 | Monday 2/18/2019 |
Wave Guides |
§ 9.5.1 |
Posted 2/22 Due 3/1 |
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| Wednesday 2/20/2019 |
TE modes |
§ 9.5.2 |
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| Friday 2/22/2019 |
Coaxial cables |
§ 9.5.3 |
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| 7 | Monday 2/25/2019 |
Vector potential |
No Homework Midterm next Monday |
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| Wednesday 2/27/2019 |
Gauge Invariance |
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| Friday 3/1/2019 |
Lecture 20 Chapter 8 & 9 Review by Shivesh |
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| 8 | Monday 3/4/2019 |
Retarded potentials |
Posted 3/8 Due 3/15 |
Exam 1 7 - 8:30 PM Loomis 136 & 144 |
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| Wednesday 3/6/2019 |
Point charges Liénard-Wiechert potentials |
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| Friday 3/8/2019 |
Fields produced by a moving point charge |
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| 9 | Monday 3/11/2019 |
Begin radiation Electric dipole radiation |
Posted 3/15 Due 3/29 |
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| Wednesday 3/13/2019 |
Magnetic dipole radiation |
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| Friday 3/15/2019 |
Lecture cancelled |
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| 10 | Monday 3/18/2019 |
SPRING BREAK BEGINS |
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| Wednesday 3/20/2019 |
SPRING BREAK CONTINUES |
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| Friday 3/22/2019 |
SPRING BREAK ENDS |
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| 11 | Monday 3/25/2019 |
Arbitrary sources |
Posted 3/29 Due 4/5 |
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| Wednesday 3/27/2019 |
Radiation from a point charge |
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| Friday 3/29/2019 |
Radiation from a point charge part 2 |
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| 12 | Monday 4/1/2019 |
Special relativity t-dilation & l-contraction |
No Homework Midterm next Monday
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| Wednesday 4/3/2019 |
4-D rotations Covariant expressions |
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| Friday 4/5/2019 |
The geometry of spacetime |
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| 13 | Monday 4/8/2019 |
Writing manifestly covariant expressions |
Posted 4/12 Due 4/19 |
Exam 2 7 - 8:30 PM Loomis 136 & 144 |
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| Wednesday 4/10/2019 |
Kinematics and conservation laws, Relativistic dynamics |
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| Friday 4/12/2019 |
Moving emitters (Doppler effect) |
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| 14 | Monday 4/15/2019 |
Relativistic kinematics |
Posted 4/19 Due 4/26 |
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| Wednesday 4/17/2019 |
Relativistic Electrodynamics |
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| Friday 4/19/2019 |
The field tensor |
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| 15 | Monday 4/22/2019 |
Field invariants |
Posted 4/26 Due 5/1, Wednesday |
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| Wednesday 4/24/2019 |
Electrodynamics with tensors |
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| Friday 4/26/2019 |
Covariant Maxwell's equations |
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| 16 | Monday 4/29/2019 |
Final Review 1 |
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| Wednesday 5/1/2019 |
Final Review 2 Last day of Instructions |
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Friday 5/3/2019 |
No class FINAL EXAM: May 7: 00 P.M. |
