PHY 712 Electrodynamics
MWF 10-10:50 AM
Olin 103
Webpage:
http://www.wfu.edu/~natalie/s24phy712/
Instructor:
Natalie Holzwarth
Office:
300 OPL
e-mail:
natalie@wfu.edu
Lecture Notes
Lecture 1 -- Introduction and electrostatics
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Lecture 2 -- Evaluation of electrostatic energy
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Ewald notes PDF
CsCl Maple input
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Lecture 3 -- Ewald summation methods
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CsCl Maple input
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Lecture 4 -- Electrostatic potentials and fields
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Lecture 5 -- Poisson equation in 2 and 3 dimensions
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Lecture 6 -- Short introduction to numerical methods (Sec. 1.12, 1.13, and 2.13 in JDJ)
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Lecture 7 -- Image charge tricks and also Poisson equation in cylindrical coordinates (Sec. 2.1-6,3.7-8 in JDJ)
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Lecture 8 -- Laplace/Poisson equation in cylindrical coordinates (Sec. 2.11, 3.7, 3.8, 3.11 in JDJ)
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Lecture 9 -- Laplace/Poisson equation in spherical coordinates (Sec. 3.1-3.6, also beginning Chap. 4 in JDJ)
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Lecture 10 -- Dipole moments and dielectrics (Sec. 4.1-4.4 in JDJ)
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Lecture 11 -- Microscopic and macroscopic dipolar effects (Sec. 4.5-4.7 in JDJ)
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Lecture 12 -- Magnetostatics (Sec. 5.1-5.5 in JDJ)
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Lecture 13 -- Magnetic dipoles (Sec. 5.6-5.7 in JDJ)
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Lecture 14 -- Magnetic materials and boundary value problems (Sec. 5.8-5.12 in JDJ)
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Lecture 15 -- Maxwell's equations (Sec. 6.1-6.4 in JDJ)
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Lecture 16 -- Maxwell's equations (Sec. 6.6-6.10 in JDJ)
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Lecture 17 -- Electromagnetic plane waves (Sec. 7.1-7.3 in JDJ)
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Lecture 18 -- Drude model of permittivity (Sec. 7.5 in JDJ)
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Lecture 19 -- Properties and effects of permittivity functions (Sec. 7.1-7.5,7.10 in JDJ)
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Lecture 20 -- Review Chapters 1-7
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Lecture 21 -- Shortened lecture on waveguides (Sec. 8.1-8.4 in JDJ)
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Lecture 22 -- Shortened lecture on waveguides (Sec. 8.2 and others in JDJ)
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Lecture 23 -- Shortened lecture on waveguides
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Lecture 24 -- Digression on solving differential equations and Radiation from harmonically oscillating sources (Sec. 9.1-9.2 in JDJ)
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Lecture 25 -- Radiation from harmonically oscillating sources (Sec. 9.1-9.2 in JDJ)
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Lecture 26 -- Antenna arrays and radiation scattering (Sec. 9.1-9.4, 10.1-10.2 in JDJ)
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Lecture 27 -- Theory of special relativity (Sec. 11.1-11.5 in JDJ)
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Lecture 28 -- Theory of special relativity (Sec. 11.1-11.6, 11.9 in JDJ)
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Lecture 29 -- Theory of special relativity (Sec. 11.9-11.10, 14.1-14.3 in JDJ)
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Lecture 30 -- Radiation from accelerating charged particles (Sec. 14.1-14.5 in JDJ)
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Lecture 31 -- Synchroton radiation (Sec. 14.1-14.6 in JDJ)
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Schwinger's 1949 paper
Lecture 32 -- Synchroton radiation and Thompson scattering (Sec. 14.1-14.8 in JDJ)
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Lecture 33 -- Radiation from charged particle collisions and from Cherenkov radiation (Sections of Chapters 13 and 15 of JDJ)
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Lecture 34 -- Phenomenological theory of superconductivity thanks to F. London
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Lecture 35 -- Introduction to quantum effects in electromagnetism I
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Lecture 36 -- Introduction to quantum effects in electromagnetism II
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Lecture 37 -- Introduction to quantum effects in electromagnetism III
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Lecture 38 -- Review Part I
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Lecture 39 -- Review Part II
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