Reading assignments - Fall 2014 462
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Wednesday August 20th: Syllabus and intro
Friday August 22nd: Maxwell equations
Pollack and Stump section 11.1 or Griffiths 7.3-7.3.4 or Shadowitz 11-1
Maxwell equations - overview Maxwell equations with monopoles Divergence & Stokes' theorem, Fundamental theorem of calculus
Monday August 25th: Boundary conditions
Pollack and Stump section 3.3.2 or Griffiths 2.3.5 or Shadowitz 6-5
Wednesday/Friday August 27/29th: Poisson's equation, separation of variables, and series solutions
Pollack and Stump section 5.1-5.3 or Griffiths 3.3 (similar but not identical techniques in Shadowitz chapter 18)
Monday September 1st: Potentials and the Helmholtz theorem
Pollack and Stump appendix B and 11.2 or Griffiths appendix B and 10.1 or Shadowitz p. 187-191
Helmholtz theorem Helmholtz in electrodynamics Electrodynamic potentials
Wednesday September 3rd: Potentials and gauges
Pollack and Stump appendix B and 11.2 or Griffiths appendix B and 10.1 or Shadowitz p. 187-191
Gauges Gauge transformations Aharonov-Bohm effect (third one optional, just for fun)
Friday September 5th: Dynamics in matter, bound sources
Pollack and Stump 11.3 or Griffiths 7.3.6
Maxwell eqns in matter Dynamic BCs
Monday September 8th: Energy, momentum, and the Poynting vector
Pollack and Stump 11.4 or Griffiths 8.2.1-8.2.3 or Shadowitz 11-3
Energy, momentum, and the Poynting vector
Wednesday September 10th: Plane waves
Pollack and Stump 11.5-11.5.3 or Griffiths 9.1-9.2 or Shadowitz 15-1
No prep for Friday September 12th - recitation day
Monday September 15th: Spherical waves
Pollack and Stump 11.5.4-11.5.5 or Griffiths problem 9.33
Spherical waves Complex math with waves
Wednesday September 17th: Reflection and refraction
Pollack and Stump 13.1-13.2.2 or Griffiths 9.3.1 or Shadowitz 17-1
Friday September 19th: Evanescence and conductors
Pollack and Stump 13.3 or Griffiths 9.3.2 and 9.4.1-9.4.2 or Shadowitz 17-2
Evanescence Waves in conductors
Monday September 22nd: Reflection and transmission coefficients
Pollack and Stump 13.2.2 or Griffiths 9.3.2 or Shadowitz 17-1
Reflection and transmission coefficients
Wednesday September 24th: Multiple interface problems
Pollack and Stump 13.2.2 or Griffiths 9.3.2 or Shadowitz 17-1
No videos for Friday September 26th - first peer lecture
Monday September 29th: Non-normal incidence problems
Pollack and Stump 13.2.3 or Griffiths 9.3.3 or Shadowitz 17-1
Non-normal incidence; Fresnel equations
Wednesday October 1st: Dispersion and resonance
Pollack and Stump 13.4-13.4.1, pg. 488 or 9.4.3 or Shadowitz 15-5
Dispersion and resonance Group and phase velocities
Friday October 3rd: Exam 1
Monday October 6th: Intro to waveguides
Pollack and Stump 14.1-14.1.2 or Griffiths 9.5.1
Intro to waveguides Parallel plate TE modes
Wednesday October 8th: More waveguides: TM modes and energy transport
Pollack and Stump 14.1.2-14.1.3 or Shadowitz 18.1
Energy transport and wavespeeds in waveguides TM modes
Friday October 10th: Rectangular waveguides
Pollack and Stump 14.2 or Griffiths 9.5.2 or Shadowitz 18.2
No prep for Monday October 13th - fall break
Wednesday October 15th: Coax and waveguide wrap-up
Pollack and Stump 14.3-14.4 or Griffiths 9.5.3 or Shadowitz chapter 16
No prep for Friday October 17th - recitation day
Monday October 20th: Green's functions and retarded potentials
Pollack and Stump 15.1 or Griffiths 10.2 or first part of Shadowitz chapter 19
Green's functions Retarded potentials
Wednesday October 22nd: Asymptotic potentials
Pollack and Stump first part of 15.2 and 15.2.3
Sheet current example Asymptotic potentials
Friday October 24th: Radiation
Pollack and Stump rest of 15.2 or Griffiths chapter 11 or Shadowitz chapter 15 starting at p. 655
Dipole radiation Monopole radiation Classical atom collapse
Monday October 27th
Pollack and Stump 15.5
Scattering Derivative fun time
Wednesday October 29th
Pollack and Stump 15.6 or Griffiths 10.3.1-10.3.2 or Shadowitz p. 642
Lienard-Wiechert potentials Shades of relativity
No prep for Friday October 31st - second peer lecture
Monday November 3rd: Dispersion and causality
Wednesday November 5th: Introduction to interference
Friday November 7th
Monday November 10th
Wednesday November 12th: Exam 2
No prep for Friday November 14th - Post-test activity
Monday November 17th
Wednesday November 19th
No prep for Friday November 21st - third peer lecture
No class Monday November 24th
Monday December 1st: Guest lecturer - Alex Flournoy, quantum field theory
Wednesday December 3rd: Exam review recitation
No class Friday December 5th - dead day
