Course outline

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I. Maxwell equations and boundary conditions

Displacement current & the Ampere-Maxwell equation

Boundary conditions in vacuum and matter

Gauge freedom

Energy & momentum in fields - Solar sails

In vacuum (planar and spherical)

In matter - Transparency & opacity (Classical & QM)

Reflection & refraction

Evanescent waves - Analogy to tunneling, NSOM

Dispersion - Group & phase velocity, causality

Lorentz transforms

4-vectors, tensors

The emergence of magnetism

All boxed up

Modes

Cavities & resonances, Q-factor

Retarded potentials

Dipole & monopole sources

Scattering

Lasers - Modes, cavities, phase locking, local relevance

Spectra & spectrometry - Absorption & emission, Raman, cosmological redshift

QED