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