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PHY 218: Electricity and Magnetism II
Prof. S. Teitel stte@pas.rochester.edu ---- Spring 2016

Lecture Notes

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  • Lecture 0 - A brief history of electromagnetism

  • Lecture 1 - Review of electro- and magneto- statics, electromotive force, electromagnetic induction in a loop moving in a static magnetic field

  • Lecture 2 - Magnetic induction continued, Faraday's Law, Lenz' Law, review of magnetostatics and Biot-Savart Law

  • Lecture 3 - Levi-Civita tensor, mutual and self inductance, LR circuit

  • Lecture 4 - Force between two current carrying loops and the energy stored in a magnetostatic current configuration

  • Lecture 5 - Examples

  • Lecture 6 - More examples, Maxwell's correction to Ampere's Law, conservation of energy in presence of electromagnetic fields

  • Lecture 7 Electromagnetic energy density and energy current (Poynting vector) of electromagnetic fields

  • Lecture 8 - Conservation of momentum, Maxwell stress tensor, electromagnetic momentum density and angular momentum density, magnetic monopoles, Maxwell's equations in potential form

  • Lecture 9 - Maxwell's equations in potential form, gauge transformations, Coulomb gauge, Lorentz gauge, electromagnetic waves in a vacuum

  • Lecture 10 - Solutions to the wave equation, plane waves, spherical waves, simple harmonic wave, Fourier transform

  • Lecture 11 - General solution to the homogeneous wave equation, Green's function for the inhomogeneous wave equation, longitudinal, transverse, and circular polarization

  • Lecture 12 - 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

  • Lecture 13 - Frequency dependent polarizability, electric susceptibility and permittivity, non-local in time relation between displacement field D and electric field E

  • Lecture 14 - Waves in a dielectric, dispersion relation, effects of complex permittivity, phase velocity, group velocity, normal and anomalous dispersion

  • Lecture 15 - Wave pulse spreading, real and imaginary parts of the permittivity, real and imaginary parts of the wavenumber, regions of transparent propagation, resonant absorption, and total reflection

  • Lecture 16 - Waves in a conductor: free current density and free charge density, frequency dependent conductivity, dispersion relation, good and poor conductors, skin depth

  • Lecture 17 - Plasma frequency, longitudinal modes, reflection and transmission of waves at an interface

  • Lecture 18 - Reflection and transmission continued: Snell's law, critical angle, total internal reflection, corrections to Snell's law for a dissipative medium, transmission into a highly absorptive medium

  • Lecture 19 - Reflected and transmitted field amplitudes, coefficient of reflection, region of total reflection, reflection between two transparent media, Brewster's angle, Green's function for the wave equation

  • Lecture 20 - Green's function for the wave equation, radiation from a localized oscillating charge density, expansion for the vector potential

  • Lecture 21 - Electric dipole, magnetic dipole and electric quadrapole terms for radiation, magnetic fields in the electric dipole approximation, radiation zone
    Review of magnetic dipole approximation in magnetostactics

  • Lecture 22 - Electirc field, Poynting vector and radiated power in the electric dipole approximation, why is the sky blue?, magnetic dipole radiation

  • Lecture 23 - Radiation from an arbitrary time-dependent charge distribution, Larmor's formula for the radiated power of an accelerated charge, radiation-reaction force, radiative decay of a classical atom

  • Lecture 24 - Lienard-Wiechert potentials for a moving point charge, potentials and fields for a point charge moving with constant velocity

  • Lecture 25 - Special relativity, Lorentz transformation, time dilation, FitzGerald contraction, simultaneity of events, proper time, proper length

  • Lecture 26 - 4-vectors, Lorentz transformation matrix, 4-differential, proper time interval, 4-velocity, 4-acceleration, 4-gradient, wave equation operator, 4-current, 4-potential, the field strength tensor, transformation law for E and B fields

  • Lecture 27 -Maxwell's equations in relativistic form, 4-momentum, Minkowski force, relativisitc kinetic energy, conservation of energy and momentum, the Lorentz force in relativistic form

  • Lecture 28 - The relativisitic generalization of Larmor's formula