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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, casuality

Motivation

Lorentz transforms

4-vectors, tensors

The emergence of magnetism

All boxed up

Retarded potentials

Dipole & monopole sources

Scattering

== VI. QM & E&M

Lasers

Spectrometry

QED

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 == I.  Maxwell equations and boundary conditions ==
 Displacement current & the Ampere-Maxwell equation
-    IB.  Boundary conditions in vacuum and matter
+Boundary conditions in vacuum and matter
+Gauge freedom
+Energy & momentum in fields - Solar sails
+== II. Electromagnetic waves ==
+In vacuum (planar and spherical)
+In matter - Transparency & opacity (Classical & QM)
+Reflection & refraction
+Evanescent waves - Analogy to tunneling, NSOM
+Dispersion - Group & phase velocity, casuality
+== III.  Relativistic E&M ==
+Motivation
+Lorentz transforms
+-vectors, tensors
+The emergence of magnetism
+All boxed up
+== IV.  Waveguides & transmission ==
-    IC.  Gauge freedom
+== V. Radiation ==
-    ID.  Energy & momentum in fields - Solar sails
+Retarded potentials
+Dipole & monopole sources
-II. Electromagnetic waves
+Scattering
-    IIA.  In vacuum (planar and spherical)
-    IIB.  In matter - Transparency & opacity (Classical & QM)
+== VI.  QM & E&M
-    IIC.  Reflection & refraction
+Lasers
-    IID.  Evanescent waves - Analogy to tunneling, NSOM
+Spectrometry
-    IIE.  Dispersion - Group & phase velocity, casuality
+QED