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: Exam 1

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

Intro to waveguides Parallel plate TE modes Energy transport and wavespeeds in waveguides TM modes

Wednesday July 16th: Rectangular waveguides and coaxial cables

Pollack and Stump 14.2 or Griffiths 9.5.2

Pollack and Stump 14.3-14.4 or Griffiths 9.5.3

Rectangular waveguides Coax cables

Monday July 21st: Retarded potentials

Pollack and Stump 15.1 or

Pollack and Stump first part of 15.2 and 15.2.3, or

Green's functions Retarded potentials Sheet current example Asymptotic potentials

Tuesday July 22nd: Radiation

Pollack and Stump rest of 15.2 or

Dipole radiation Monopole radiation Classical atom collapse

Wednesday July 23rd: Lienard-Wiechert potentials

Pollack and Stump 15.5 or

Pollack and Stump 15.6 or

Scattering Derivative fun time Lienard-Wiechert potentials Shades of relativity

Monday/Tuesday July 28/29th: Inductance and RLC circuits

Pollack and Stump sections 10.1-10.3 or

Pollack and Stump sections 10.3 (end part on LC circuits), 10.5 or

Faraday's and Lenz's laws Self inductance Energy in inductors LC circuits

Wednesday July 30th: Review of basic diffraction & interference concepts

Monday August 5th: Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction

Tuesday August 6th: Holography

Wednesday August 7th: Final exam