Reading assignments - Fall 2016 462
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqO_7h054Yg '''Divergence & Stokes' theorem, Fundamental theorem of calculus'''](third one optional) | [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqO_7h054Yg '''Divergence & Stokes' theorem, Fundamental theorem of calculus'''](third one optional) | ||
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Traditional lecture - no required prep. Optional prep materials: | Traditional lecture - no required prep. Optional prep materials: | ||
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Flipped class. Pollack and Stump 13.2.2 or Griffiths 9.3.2 | Flipped class. Pollack and Stump 13.2.2 or Griffiths 9.3.2 | ||
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Flipped class. Pollack and Stump 13.2.2 or Griffiths 9.3.2 | Flipped class. Pollack and Stump 13.2.2 or Griffiths 9.3.2 | ||
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Flipped class. Pollack and Stump 13.2.3 or Griffiths 9.3.3 | Flipped class. Pollack and Stump 13.2.3 or Griffiths 9.3.3 | ||
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| − | No prep for '''Wednesday | + | No prep for '''Wednesday September 28th''' - recitation day |
| − | '''Friday | + | '''Friday September 30th: Evanescence and conductors''' |
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Traditional lecture - no required prep. Optional prep materials: | Traditional lecture - no required prep. Optional prep materials: | ||
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Flipped class. Pollack and Stump 13.4-13.4.1 and top of pg. 488, or Griffiths 9.4.3 | Flipped class. Pollack and Stump 13.4-13.4.1 and top of pg. 488, or Griffiths 9.4.3 | ||
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KADOp6PRXng '''Dispersion and resonance'''] | [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KADOp6PRXng '''Dispersion and resonance'''] | ||
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uii9clp_DSg '''Group and phase velocities'''] | [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uii9clp_DSg '''Group and phase velocities'''] | ||
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Revision as of 18:00, 21 August 2016
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
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)
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
Evanescence Waves in conductors
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
Dispersion and resonance Group and phase velocities
Wednesday October 5th: The Kramers-Kronig relations
Friday October 7th: Exam review/cushion
Monday October 9th: Ex
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 17th - 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
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)
Friday October 30th: Green's functions and retarded potentials
Half flipped class. No good textbook equivalent - check out the video on Green's functions before class. Come prepared to answer the question "What is a Green's function?"
Optional pre/post review:
Monday November 2nd: Asymptotic potentials
Flipped class. 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 4th: Radiation I
Flipped class. Pollack and Stump rest of 15.2 or Griffiths chapter 11
No prep for Friday November 6th - second peer lecture
Monday November 9th: Radiation II
Traditional lecture. Optional prep materials: Pollack and Stump rest of 15.2 or Griffiths chapter 11
Dipole radiation Classical atom collapse
Wednesday November 11th: Scattering
Flipped class. Pollack and Stump 15.5. No Griffiths equivalent.
Friday November 13th: Exam 2
Monday November 16th: 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 18th: Wrap-up activity
Relativity and whatnot
Wednesday December 9th: Guest lecture, QED
No class Friday December 11th - dead day
