| MWF 10-10:50 AM | OPL 103 | http://www.wfu.edu/~natalie/s07phy712/ |
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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01-17 (Wed)
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Chap. I and 1
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Introduction and Units
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01-19 (Fri)
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Chap. 1 | Poisson Equation | |
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01-22 (Mon)
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Chap. 1 | Poisson & Laplace Eqs. in 3-dimensions | |
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01-24 (Wed)
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Chap. 1 | Electrostatic energy; Ewald analysis | |
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01-26 (Fri)
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Chap. 1 | Electrostatic energy; Ewald analysis | |
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01-29 (Mon)
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Chap. 2 | Method of images | |
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01-31 (Wed)
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Chap. 2 | Green's functions and orthogonal functions | |
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02-02 (Fri)
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Chap. 2 | Green's functions for Poisson Eqn. continued | |
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02-05 (Mon)
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Chap. 2 &3 | Green's functions for Poisson Eqn. continued | |
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02-07 (Wed)
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Chap. 3 | Green's functions for Poisson Eqn. -- cylindrical coordinates | |
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02-09 (Fri)
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No class | Take-home exam | |
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02-12 (Mon)
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Chap. 1-3 | Numerical methods for solving Poisson Eqn. | |
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02-14 (Wed)
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Chap. 1-3 | Numerical methods for solving Poisson Eqn. | |
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02-16 (Fri)
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Chap. 3 | Poisson Eqn. in spherical polar coordinates | |
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02-19 (Mon)
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Chap. 4 | Multipole representation of electrostatic potential | |
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02-20 (Wed)
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Chap. 4 | Dipolar fields | |
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02-23 (Fri)
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Chap. 4 | Displacement field and dielectric constant | |
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02-26 (Mon)
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Chap. 4 | Claussius-Mossotti relation | |
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02-28 (Wed)
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Chap. 5 | Magnetostatics | |
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03-02 (Fri)
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Chap. 5 | Hyperfine interaction | |
| 03-05 (Mon) |
No class | March APS meeting | 03-07 (Wed) |
No class | March APS meeting | 03-09 (Fri) |
No class | March APS meeting | 03-12 (Mon) |
No class | Spring Break | 03-07 (Wed) |
No class | Spring Break | 03-09 (Fri) |
No class | Spring Break |
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03-19 (Mon)
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Chap. 5 | Magnetization density | |
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03-21(Wed)
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Chap. 6 | Maxwell's equations | |
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03-23 (Fri)
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Chap. 6 | Poynting vector and energy density | |
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03-26 (Mon)
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Chap. 7 | Plane Electronmagnetic Waves | |
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03-28 (Wed)
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Chap. 7 | Models of dielectric functions | |
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03-30 (Fri)
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Chap. 7 | Kramers-Kronig transforms | |
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04-02 (Mon)
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Chap. 9 | Radiating systems | |
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04-04 (Wed)
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Chap. 9 | Radiating systems | |
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04-06 (Fri)
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Good Friday | No class | |
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04-09 (Mon)
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Chap. 11 | Special theory of relativity | |
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04-11 (Wed)
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Chap.11 | Field transformations | |
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04-13 (Fri)
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Chap. 11 | Electric and magnetic fields from a moving charge | |
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04-16 (Mon)
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Chap. 11 | Radiation of a moving charge | |
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04-18 (Wed)
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Chap. 14 | Synchrotron Radiation | |
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04-20 (Fri)
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Chap. 14 | Synchrotron Radiation | |
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04-23 (Mon)
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Chap. 14 | Radiation and scattering | |
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04-25 (Wed)
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Chap. 8 | Wave Guides | |
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04-27 (Fri)
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Chap. 8 | Wave Guides | |
04-30 (Mon)
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Presentations | |
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05-02 (Wed)
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Presentations | |