PHGN-462 Fall
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Course Information
Professor: Dr. Chip Durfee
Office: Meyer Hall 330
Meeting Times: MWF 9:00-9:50 AM
Location: Berthoud Hall 106 Go out west entrance of Meyer Hall, cross directly over the street to Berthoud. Room is on the first floor, halfway down on the left.
Announcements
12 Sept 2007 Notes: We've scanned notes for the past 4 lectures, but the Wiki system isn't allowing us to upload them for some reason. If you want to come and get copies, you can stop by my office.
31 Aug 2007
HW 2 is posted below. Hopefully you will find this more straightforward.
29 Aug 2007
> Notes for the early lectures are posted below. Remember that there are often more complete derivations in there, so you might consider them as an additional reading. resource.
>HW1 HM problem 4.12 In this problem, solve for Q(t) first. The Maxwell equations you are using are given in equations 4.21-4.24. The second set on that page are for microscopic EM, where there are no bound charges or dielectric media. So in our context, there is no free current, only the displacement current.
24 Aug 2007:
> I've posted a couple of links below to give some more documentation on vector ID's. If any of you find anything useful, please post it. Many pages I found were more specific to the use of the notation in relativity, which is more involved than what we are interested in at this time.
> I will be at the SPIE conference in San Diego to give a talk. I'll be leaving after class on Monday, returning Tuesday night. No change in class schedule, but I'll move tuesday's office hour. Next week: office hours W1-3, Th1-4
> During the week of 3-7 Sept, I'm in Santa Fe to give a talk and poster. Dr Kowalski will be teaching in my place.
> I've posted HW1 below. Also look at the pdf from an intro plasma physics book by Chen. Later, I'll post copies like that in the forum section.
Office hours
Times - Tuesday 3-4p, Wednesday 2-3, Thursday 1-4p
Let me know if you can't make these - we can make an appointment.
Course Forum, Supplementary Readings, Homework Solutions
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Course Material
Syllabus and Reading List
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The material below is from 2006.
Homework Assignments: all students
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Homework Assignments: 507
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Lecture Notes
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Lecture Notes for 507 Only
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Mathematica Demos
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Course Links
Students: when you post links, mark your name and the date of the post
Einstein summation convention and vector ID's: Brief discussion of use of Einstein notation to prove vector ID's
A more general discussion of Vector calculus, some reference to the summation convention
Heald-Marion text: Errata for the Heald/Marion textbook
Online Demo's JavaOptics: a nice collection of optics-related demonstrations
