Reading assignments - Summer 2014 462
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Monday June 23rd: Maxwell equations and boundary conditions
Pollack and Stump section 11.1 or Griffiths 7.3-7.3.4 or Shadowitz 11-1
Pollack and Stump section 3.3.2 or Griffiths 2.3.5 or Shadowitz 6-5
Maxwell equations - overview Maxwell equations with monopoles Divergence & Stokes' theorem, Fundamental theorem of calculus
Tuesday/Wednesday June 25/26th: 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 June 30th: Potentials, Helmholtz theorem, and gauges
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 Gauges Gauge transformations Aharonov-Bohm effect (optional, just for fun)
Tuesday July 1st: Dynamics in matter, plus energy, momentum, and the Poynting vector
Pollack and Stump 11.3 or Griffiths 7.3.6
Pollack and Stump 11.4 or Griffiths 8.2.1-8.2.3 or Shadowitz 11-3
Maxwell eqns in matter Dynamic BCs Energy, momentum, and the Poynting vector
Wednesday July 2nd: Plane and spherical electromagnetic waves
Pollack and Stump 11.5-11.5.3 or Griffiths 9.1-9.2 or Shadowitz 15-1
Pollack and Stump 11.5.4-11.5.5 or Griffiths problem 9.33
Plane waves Spherical waves Complex math with waves
Monday July 7th: Reflection, refraction, evanescence, and conductors
Pollack and Stump 13.1-13.2.2 or Griffiths 9.3.1 or Shadowitz 17-1
Pollack and Stump 13.3 or Griffiths 9.3.2 and 9.4.1-9.4.2 or Shadowitz 17-2
Reflection and refraction Evanescence Waves in conductors
Tuesday July 8th: Reflection and transmission coefficients, single and multiple interfaces
Pollack and Stump 13.2.2 or Griffiths 9.3.2 or Shadowitz 17-1
Reflection and transmission coefficients Multiple interfaces
Wednesday July 9th: Fresnel equations, dispersion, and resonance
Pollack and Stump 13.2.3 or Griffiths 9.3.3 or Shadowitz 17-1
Pollack and Stump 13.4-13.4.1, pg. 488 or 9.4.3 or Shadowitz 15-5
Non-normal incidence; Fresnel equations Dispersion and resonance Group and phase velocities
Monday July 14th & Tuesday July 15th: Waveguides 1
Pollack and Stump 14.1-14.1.2 or Griffiths 9.5.1
Pollack and Stump 14.1.2-14.1.3 or Shadowitz 18.1
Intro to waveguides Parallel plate TE modes Energy transport and wavespeeds in waveguides TM modes
Wednesday July 16th: Exam 1
Monday July 21st: Rectangular waveguides and coaxial cables
Pollack and Stump 14.2 or Griffiths 9.5.2 or Shadowitz 18.2
Pollack and Stump 14.3-14.4 or Griffiths 9.5.3 or Shadowitz chapter 16
Rectangular waveguides Coax cables
Tuesday July 22nd: Retarded potentials
Pollack and Stump 15.1 or Griffiths 10.2 or first part of Shadowitz chapter 19
Pollack and Stump first part of 15.2 and 15.2.3
Green's functions Retarded potentials Sheet current example Asymptotic potentials
Wednesday July 23rd: 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
Week of July 28th: Inductance and RLC circuits
Pollack and Stump sections 10.1-10.3 or Griffiths 7.2.3 or Shadowitz 5-3
Pollack and Stump sections 10.3 (end part on LC circuits) and 10.5 or Griffiths 7.2.4 or Shadowitz 5-3
Faraday's and Lenz's laws Self inductance Energy in inductors LC circuits
Monday August 4th: Scattering and Lienard-Wiechert potentials
Pollack and Stump 15.5
Pollack and Stump 15.6 or Griffiths 10.3.1-10.3.2 or Shadowitz p. 642
Scattering Derivative fun time Lienard-Wiechert potentials Shades of relativity
Tuesday August 5th: Introduction to interference
Lecture only, no readings or videos.
Wednesday August 6th: Final exam
