| MWF 12-12:50 AM | OPL 107 | http://www.wfu.edu/~natalie/s06phy712/ |
This course is a one semester survey of Electrodyamics at the graduate level, using the textbook: Classical Electrodyamics, 3rd edition, by John David Jackson (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) -- "JDJ".
It is likely that your grade for the course will depend upon the following factors:
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40% |
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20% |
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Exams |
40% |
*In general, there will a new assignment after each lecture, so that for optimal learning, it would be best to complete each assignment before the the next scheduled lecture. According to the honor system, all work submitted for grading purposes should represent the student's own best efforts.
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Date
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JDJ Reading
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Topic
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Assign.
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01-11 (Wed)
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Chap. I and 1
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Introduction and Units
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01-13 (Fri)
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Chap. 1 | Poisson Equation | |
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01-16 (Mon)
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No class | MLK holiday | |
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01-18 (Wed)
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Chap. 1 | Poisson & Laplace Eqs. in 3-dimensions | |
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01-20 (Fri)
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Chap. 1 | Electrostatic energy; Ewald analysis | |
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01-23 (Mon)
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Chap. 2 | Method of images | |
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01-25 (Wed)
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Chap. 2 | Green's functions and orthogonal functions | |
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01-27 (Fri)
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Chap. 2 | Green's functions for Poisson Eqn. continued | |
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01-30 (Mon)
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Chap. 3 | Green's functions for Poisson Eqn. continued | |
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02-01 (Wed)
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Chap. 3 | Green's functions for Poisson Eqn. -- spherical coordinates | |
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02-03 (Fri)
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Chap. 1-3 | Numerical methods for solving Poisson Eqn. | |
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02-06 (Mon)
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Chap. 4 | Multipole expansions and dipolar electric fields | |
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02-08 (Wed)
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Chap. 4 | Dipolar fields | |
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02-10 (Fri)
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Chap. 4 | Displacement field and dielectric constant | |
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02-13 (Mon)
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Chap. 5 | Magnetostatics | |
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02-15 (Wed)
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Chap. 5 | Hyperfine interaction | |
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02-17 (Fri)
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Chap. 5 | Magnetization density | |
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02-20 (Mon)
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Chap. 5 | Magnetic boundary value problems | |
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02-22 (Wed)
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Chap. 6 | Maxwell's equations | |
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02-24 (Fri)
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Chap. 6 | Green's function solutions to Maxwell's Equations | |
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02-27 (Mon)
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Chap. 6 | Liénard Wiechert potentials and fields | |
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03-01 (Wed)
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Chap. 7 | Plane Electromagnetic waves | |
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03-03 (Fri)
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Chap. 7 | Plane Electromagnetic waves | |
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03-06 (Mon)
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No class | Spring break | |
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03-08 (Wed)
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No class | Spring break | |
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03-10 (Fri)
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No class | Spring break | |
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03-13 (Mon)
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No class | March APS Meeting | |
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03-15 (Wed)
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No class | March APS Meeting | |
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03-17 (Fri)
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No class | March APS Meeting | |
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03-20 (Mon)
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Chap. 7 | Dielectric functions | |
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03-22 (Wed)
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Chap. 7 | Kramers-Kronig transforms | |
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03-24 (Fri)
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Chap. 8 | Wave Guides | |
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03-27 (Mon)
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Chap. 8 & 11 | Waveguides & Special theory of relativity | |
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03-29 (Wed)
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Chap. 11 | Special theory of relativity | |
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03-31 (Fri)
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Chap.11 | Field transformations | |
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04-03 (Mon)
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Chap. 14 | Radiation from moving charge | |
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04-05 (Wed)
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Chap. 14 | Radiation of a moving charge | |
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04-07 (Fri)
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Chap. 14 | Synchrotron Radiation | |
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04-10 (Mon)
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Chap. 9 | Radiating systems | |
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04-12 (Wed)
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Chap. 9 | Radiating systems | |
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04-14 (Fri)
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No class | Good Friday | |
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04-17 (Mon)
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Chap. 9 | Multipole Radiation fields | |
04-19 (Wed)
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Chap. 9 | Multipole Radiation fields | |
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04-21 (Fri)
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Chap. 10 | Scattering of Radiation | |
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04-24 (Mon)
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Review and Presentations | ||
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04-26 (Wed)
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Presentations |