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PHY 218: Electricity and Magnetism II
Prof. S. Teitel stte@pas.rochester.edu ---- Spring 2017

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lecture 13

Waves in a conductor, free current density and free charge density, frequency dependent conductivity, dispersion relation, good and poor conductors, skin depth, plasma frequency

2 3

HW #5 due

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5 6

lecture 14

Longitudinal modes in a conductor, plasma oscillations, reflection and transmission of waves at an interface, Snell's law, critical angle, total internal reflection

Notes on the Faraday Effect

7 8

lecture 15

Corrections to Snell's law for a dissipative medium, transmission into a highly absorptive medium, reflected and transmitted field amplitudes, coefficient of reflection, region of total reflection

9 10 11

spring break

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spring break

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spring break

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spring break

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spring break

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spring break

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spring break

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spring break

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spring break

20

lecture 16

Reflection between two transparent media, Brewster's angle, Green's function for the wave equation

21 22

lecture 17

Radiation from a localized oscillating charge density, expansion for the vector potential, electric dipole, magnetic dipole and electric quadrapole terms for radiation

23

MIDTERM EXAM, 5:00 - 7:00 pm in Hylan 105

24 25
26 27

lecture 18

Relative sizes of dipole and quadrapole terms, electric and magnetic fields in the electric dipole approximation, radiation zone limit, Poynting vector and radiated power in the electric dipole approximation, why is the sky blue?

28 29

lecture 19

Magnetic dipole radiation, radiation from an arbitrary time-dependent charge distribution, Larmor's formula for the radiated power of an accelerated charge

Supplement

Greens function for the wave equation in real space-time

30 31

HW #6 due