Reading assignments - Fall 2015 462
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZC0E8Pc_5g '''Coax cables'''] | [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZC0E8Pc_5g '''Coax cables'''] | ||
Revision as of 22:00, 22 October 2015
Also see handwritten lecture notes posted in chronological order and a full directory of available videos. Some intro E&M (Phys 200 level) materials are available at my YouTube channel under the Review of Intro E&M playlist..
Wednesday August 26th: Syllabus and intro
Friday August 28th: Faraday's law
Traditional lecture, no required prep.
Optional pre or post review: Pollack and Stump sections 10.1-10.3 or Griffiths 7.1.3-7.2.2
Faraday's and Lenz's laws - 462 level
Faraday's law - Phys 200 level review
Lenz's law - Phys 200 level review
Monday August 31st: Inductance and stored energy
Flipped class. Pollack and Stump sections 10.3 (end part on LC circuits), 10.5 or Griffiths 7.2.3-7.2.5
Wednesday September 2nd: Ampere-Maxwell equation
Traditional lecture, no required prep.
Optional pre or post review: Pollack and Stump section 11.1.1 or Griffiths 7.3.2
No videos available. Written notes here
Friday September 4th: Review of bound sources, D, and H
Traditional lecture, no required prep.
No videos available. Written notes here
Monday September 7th: Maxwell equations
Flipped class. Pollack and Stump section 11.1 or Griffiths 7.3.1
Maxwell equations with monopoles
Divergence & Stokes' theorem, Fundamental theorem of calculus(third one optional)
Wednesday September 9th: Potentials and the Helmholtz theorem
Flipped class. Pollack and Stump appendix B and 11.2 or Griffiths appendix B and 10.1
Friday September 11th: Potentials and gauges
Flipped class. Pollack and Stump appendix B and 11.2 or Griffiths appendix B and 10.1 or Shadowitz p. 187-191
Aharonov-Bohm effect (third one optional, just for fun)
Monday September 14th: Dynamics in matter
Flipped class. Pollack and Stump 11.3 or Griffiths 7.3.6
Wednesday September 16th: Energy, momentum, and the Poynting vector
Traditional class - no required prep. Optional prep materials:
Pollack and Stump 11.4 or Griffiths 8.2.1-8.2.3
Energy, momentum, and the Poynting vector
No prep for Friday September 18th - recitation day
Monday September 21st: Plane waves
Fipped class. Pollack and Stump 11.5-11.5.3 or Griffiths 9.1-9.2
Wednesday September 23rd: Spherical waves
Half-flipped class. Pollack and Stump 11.5.4-11.5.5 or Griffiths problem 9.33
Optional, subject of in-class mini-lecture:
No prep for Friday September 25th - first peer lecture
Monday September 28th: Reflection and refraction
Traditional lecture - no required prep. Optional prep materials:
Pollack and Stump 13.1-13.2.2 or Griffiths 9.3.1
Wednesday September 30th: Reflection and transmission coefficients
Flipped class. Pollack and Stump 13.2.2 or Griffiths 9.3.2
Reflection and transmission coefficients
Friday October 2nd: Multiple interface problems
Flipped class. Pollack and Stump 13.2.2 or Griffiths 9.3.2
Monday October 5th: Non-normal incidence problems
Flipped class. Pollack and Stump 13.2.3 or Griffiths 9.3.3
Non-normal incidence; Fresnel equations
No prep for Wednesday October 7th - recitation day
Friday October 9th: Exam 1
Monday October 12th: Evanescence and conductors
Traditional lecture - no required prep. Optional prep materials:
Pollack and Stump 13.3 or Griffiths 9.3.2 and 9.4.1-9.4.2
Evanescence Waves in conductors
Wednesday October 14th: Dispersion and resonance
Flipped class. Pollack and Stump 13.4-13.4.1 and top of pg. 488, or Griffiths 9.4.3
Dispersion and resonance Group and phase velocities
Friday October 16th: Intro to waveguides
Traditional lecture - no required prep. Optional prep materials: Pollack and Stump 14.1-14.1.2 or Griffiths 9.5.1
Intro to waveguides Parallel plate TE modes
No prep for Monday October 19th - fall break
Wednesday October 21st: More waveguides: TM modes and energy transport
Flipped class. Pollack and Stump 14.1.2-14.1.3. No Griffiths equivalent.
Energy transport and wavespeeds in waveguides TM modes
Friday October 23rd: Rectangular waveguides
Flipped class. Pollack and Stump 14.2 or Griffiths 9.5.2
Monday October 26th: Coax and waveguide wrap-up
Flipped class. Pollack and Stump 14.3-14.4 or Griffiths 9.5.3
No prep for Wednesday October 28th - recitation day
Friday October 30th: Green's functions and retarded potentials
Half flipped class. No good textbook equivalent - check out the video on Green's functions.
Optional pre/post review:
Monday November 2nd: Asymptotic potentials
Pollack and Stump first part of 15.2 and 15.2.3
Sheet current example Asymptotic potentials
Wednesday November 4th: Radiation I
Pollack and Stump rest of 15.2 or Griffiths chapter 11
Dipole radiation Monopole radiation Classical atom collapse
No prep for Friday November 6th - second peer lecture
Monday November 9th: Radiation II
Pollack and Stump rest of 15.2 or Griffiths chapter 11
Dipole radiation Monopole radiation Classical atom collapse
Wednesday November 11th: Scattering
Pollack and Stump 15.5
Friday November 13th: Exam 2
Monday November 16th: Wrapping up classical E&M
Pollack and Stump 15.6 or Griffiths 10.3.1-10.3.2
Lienard-Wiechert potentials Shades of relativity
Wednesday November 18th: Wrap-up activity
Wednesday November 18th: Intro to interference
Friday November 20th: Coherence
Monday November 23rd: Interferometry
No class November 25th and 27th - Thanksgiving
Monday November 30th: The Fabry-Perot
Wednesday December 2nd: Diffraction
No prep for Friday December 4th -- third peer lecture
Monday December 7th: TBD
Wednesday December 9th: Guest lecture, QED
No class Friday December 11th - dead day
