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| 9th Jan. |
Griffiths, Chapters 1-6
Griffiths, Appendix A
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You may recall that this is part two of a two-part course. In particular, those chapters of Griffiths' book were covered in part one, and so I will be assuming that you've been catching up on reading those parts, if you have gotten rusty in those aspects.
You are to remind yourself (or learn) the aspects of vector calculus to be found in this appendix.
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| 11th Jan. |
Chapter 7: Electromotive Force |
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| 13th Jan. |
Chapter 7, Electromotive Force, cont'd |
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| 18th Jan. |
Chapter 7: Electromagnetic Induction |
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| 20th Jan. |
Chapter 7: Electromagnetic Induction, cont'd. |
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| 23rd Jan. |
Chapter 7: Maxwell's Equations |
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| 25th Jan. |
Chapter 7: Maxwell's Equations, cont'd |
Now we've fully stated classical electrodynamics! Everything else is just the consequences of these equations..... |
| 30th Jan. |
Chapter 7: Maxwell in Media |
A useful rewriting of Maxwell's equations. |
| 1st Feb. |
Chapter 8: Energy and Momentum |
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| 3rd Feb. |
Chapter 8: Energy and Momentum (cont'd) |
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| 7th Feb. |
Chapter 8 (cont'd) |
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| 8th Feb. |
Chapter 9 Electromagnetic Waves |
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| 10th Feb. |
Chapter 9: Electromagnetic Waves |
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| 13th Feb. |
Chapter 9: Electromagnetic Waves |
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| 15th Feb. |
Review of everything so far |
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| 17th Feb. |
Review of everything so far |
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Presidents' Day. |
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| 22nd Feb. |
Midterm #1 |
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| 24th Feb. |
Post Mortem |
The solution is on the Totale website |
| 27th Feb. |
Chapter 9: Electromagnetic Waves in Media (Normal Incidence) |
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| 1st March |
Chapter 9: Electromagnetic Waves in Media (Oblique Incidence) |
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| 3rd March |
Chapter 9: Electromagnetic Waves: Absorption and Dispersion |
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| 6th March |
Chapter 9: Electromagnetic Waves: Why conductors are shiny |
Why conductors are shiny, and so why we make mirrors out of them.... |
| 8th March |
Chapter 9: Electromagnetic Waves: Absorption and Dispersion |
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| 10th March |
Chapter 9: Electromagnetic Waves: dispersion....plasma frequency... |
Where we learn why you can get radio waves from really far away on a sunny day.....but not for FM or TV..... |
| 13th-17th March |
Spring Break |
Spring Break |
| 20th March |
Chapter 10: Potentials and Fields: Gauge Transformations - Coulomb and Lorentz Gauges. Retarded Potentials for general distributions. |
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| 22nd March |
Chapter 10: Potentials and Fields: Retarded Potentials for point charges- Lienard-Wiechert potentials. |
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| 24th March |
Chapter 10: Potentials and Fields: Lienard-Wiechert potentials cont'd. Fields due to a point charge...... |
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| 27th March |
No lecture.....one hopes that you'll still get together for review |
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| 29th March |
Review |
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| 31st March |
Chapter 11: Radiation from electric dipole |
Now you now how those electromagnetic waves we studied before actually get started at the radio station..... Aspects of why the sky is blue also can be deduced here...... |
| 3rd April |
Chapter 11: Radiation from magnetic dipole |
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| 5th April |
Midterm #2 |
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| 7th April |
Post Mortem |
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| 10th April |
Chapter 11: Radiation from an arbitrary source |
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| 12th April |
Chapter 11: Radiation from an arbitrary source, cont'd - multipole expansion - point charges - Larmour radiation. |
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| 14th April |
Chapter 11: Radiation from a point charge, cont'd - Radiation Reaction |
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| 17th April |
Chapter 12: Special Relativity! |
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| 19th April |
Chapter 12: Special Relativity! |
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| 21st April |
Chapter 12: Special Relativity! |
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| 24th April |
Chapter 12: Special Relativity! |
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| 26th April |
Chapter 12: Special Relativity! |
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| 28th April |
Review? |
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