Reading assignments - Fall 2016 462
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..
Monday August 22nd: Syllabus and intro
Wednesday August 24th: 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
Friday August 26th: 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
Monday August 29th: 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
Wednesday August 31st: Maxwell equations
Traditional lecture, no required prep.
Optional pre or post review: Pollack and Stump section 11.1 or Griffiths 7.3.1
Maxwell equations with monopoles
Divergence & Stokes' theorem, Fundamental theorem of calculus
Friday September 2nd: Dynamics in matter
Flipped class. Pollack and Stump 11.3 or Griffiths 7.3.6
Monday September 5th: No class: Labor Day
Wednesday September 7th: 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 9th - recitation day
Monday September 12th: Plane waves
Fipped class. Pollack and Stump 11.5-11.5.3 or Griffiths 9.1-9.2
Wednesday September 14th: 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 16th - first peer lecture
Monday September 19th: 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 21st: Reflection and transmission coefficients
Flipped class. Pollack and Stump 13.2.2 or Griffiths 9.3.2
Reflection and transmission coefficients
Friday September 23rd: Multiple interface problems
Flipped class. Pollack and Stump 13.2.2 or Griffiths 9.3.2
Monday September 26th: 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 September 28th - recitation day
Friday September 30th: 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
Monday October 3rd: Dispersion and resonance
Flipped class. Pollack and Stump 13.4-13.4.1 and top of pg. 488, or Griffiths 9.4.3
Wednesday October 5th: The Kramers-Kronig relations
No textbook equivalent - Handwritten notes here.
Half-flipped class. Watch the "Response functions" video (or, optionally, both) and do the Pre-assignment
Friday October 7th: Intro to waveguides
Traditional lecture - no required prep. Optional prep materials: Pollack and Stump 14.1-14.1.2 or Griffiths 9.5.1
Monday October 10th: 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
Wednesday October 12th: Rectangular waveguides
Flipped class. Pollack and Stump 14.2 or Griffiths 9.5.2
Rectangular waveguide sim - just for fun
Friday October 14th: No class: Early fall break.
Monday October 17th: No class: Fall break.
Wednesday October 19th: Coax and waveguide wrap-up
Traditional class. Optional prep: Pollack and Stump 14.3-14.4 or Griffiths 9.5.3
Friday October 21st: No prep: Recitation day
Monday October 24th: Exam 1
Monday October 31st: Potentials and the Helmholtz theorem
Traditional lecture. Pollack and Stump appendix B and 11.2 or Griffiths appendix B and 10.1
Wednesday November 2nd: Potentials and gauges
Traditional lecture. Pollack and Stump appendix B and 11.2 or Griffiths appendix B and 10.1 or Shadowitz p. 187-191
Aharonov-Bohm effect (optional, just for fun)
Friday November 4th: Green's functions and retarded potentials
Half flipped class. No good textbook equivalent - check out the video on Green's functions before class.
Optional pre/post review:
Monday November 7th: Asymptotic potentials
Traditional lecture. Optional prep: Pollack and Stump first part of 15.2 and 15.2.3
Optional worked example (worth watching casually now; also ties into a homework problem):
Wednesday November 9th: Radiation I
Flipped class. Pollack and Stump rest of 15.2 or Griffiths chapter 11
Friday November 11th: Radiation II
Traditional lecture. Optional prep materials: Pollack and Stump rest of 15.2 or Griffiths chapter 11
Dipole radiation Classical atom collapse
Monday November 14th: Wrapping up classical E&M
Half-flipped class. Follow through the derivation of the Lienard-Wiechert potentials, but stop before the derivation of Lienard's formula. Pollack and Stump 15.6 or Griffiths 10.3.1-10.3.2
Optional pre/post review:
Wednesday November 16th: Scattering
Traditional class. Pollack and Stump 15.5. No Griffiths equivalent.
Friday November 18th - Second peer lecture
Monday November 21st - Relativity I
Wednesday November 23rd and Friday November 25th: No class: Thanksgiving
Monday November 28th - Relativity II
Wednesday November 30th - Relativity III
Friday December 2nd - Relativity IV
Monday December 5th - Relativity V
Wednesday December 7th: Guest lecture, Alex Flournoy
No class Friday December 9th - dead day
