Video and reading assignments - Fall 2013 462
To participate in class activities, have the following videos watched or book sections read by the indicated days:
Friday August 23rd: Pollack and Stump sections 10.1-10.3 or
Faraday's and Lenz's laws Self inductance
Monday August 26th: Pollack and Stump sections 10.3 (end part on LC circuits), 10.5 or
Energy in inductors LC circuits
Wednesday August 28th: Pollack and Stump section 11.1 or
Maxwell equations - overview Maxwell equations with monopoles Divergence & Stokes' theorem, Fundamental theorem of calculus(third one optional)
No videos for Friday August 30th - recitation day
Feel free to brush up on Ampere's law and Faraday's law in preparation
Monday September 2nd: Pollack and Stump appendix B, intro to 11.2 or
Helmholtz theorem Helmholtz in electrodynamics Electrodynamic potentials
Wednesday September 4th: The rest of Pollack and Stump 11.2 or
Gauges Gauge transformations Aharonov-Bohm effect (study the first two more, watch the third casually)
No videos for Friday September 6th - peer lecture day
Monday September 9th: Pollack and Stump 11.3 or
Maxwell eqns in matter Dynamic BCs
Wednesday September 11th: Pollack and Stump 11.4 or
Energy, momentum, and the Poynting vector
Friday September 13th: Pollack and Stump 11.5-11.5.3 or
Monday September 16th: Pollack and Stump 11.5.4-11.5.5 or
Spherical waves Complex math with waves
Monday September 23rd: Pollack and Stump 13.1-13.2.2 or
Wednesday September 25th: Pollack and Stump 13.3 or
Evanescence Waves in conductors
Friday September 27th: Pollack and Stump 13.2.2 or
Reflection and transmission coefficients
Wednesday October 2nd: Pollack and Stump 13.2.2 (the latter half) or
Friday October 4th: Pollack and Stump 13.2.3 or
Non-normal incidence; Fresnel equations
Monday October 7th: Pollack and Stump 13.4-13.4.1, pg. 488 or
Dispersion and resonance Group and phase velocities
Wednesday October 9th: Pollack and Stump 14.1-14.1.2 or
Intro to waveguides Parallel plate TE modes
Wednesday October 16th: Pollack and Stump 14.1.2-14.1.3 or
Energy transport and wavespeeds in waveguides TM modes
Friday October 18th: Pollack and Stump 14.2 or
