February

February

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Lecture 5

Conservation of energy: energy density and energy current (Poynting vector) of electromagnetic fields
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Lecture 6

Conservation of momentum

HW #1 due
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Lecture 7

Maxwell stress tensor, electromagnetic momentum density and angular momentum density, magnetic monopoles, Dirac's argument for the quantization of charge
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Last date to add or drop course
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Lecture 8

Maxwell's equations in potential form, gauge transformations, Coulomb gauge, Lorentz gauge

HW #2 due
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Lecture 9

Electromagnetic waves in a vacuum, solutions to the wave equation, plane waves, spherical waves, simple harmonic wave, Fourier transform
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Lecture 10

General solution to the homogeneous wave equation, Green's function for the inhomogeneous wave equation, longitudinal, transverse, and circular polarization

HW #3 due
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Lecture 11

Electromagnetic waves in a vacuum, energy and momentum of EM waves in a vacuum, macroscopic Maxwell's equations in matter, wave in a linear material with constant permeability and permeativity
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Lecture 12

Frequency dependent polarizability, electric susceptibility and permittivity, non-local in time relation between displacement field D and electric field E

HW #4 due
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