February

February

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1
HW #1 due
2

3 4
lecture 5

Maxwell's equations in potential form, gauge transformations, Coulomb gauge, Lorentz gauge, Lorentz force in potential form
5 6
lecture 6

Lagrangian and canonical momentum of a charge in electromagnetic fields, electromagnetic waves in a vacuum, solutions to the wave equation, plane waves, spherical waves, simple harmonic wave, Fourier transforms
7
Recitation
8
HW #2 due
9

10 11
lecture 7

General solution to the homogeneous wave equation, Green's function for the inhomogeneous wave equation, longitudinal, transverse, and circular polarization, electromagnetic waves in a vacuum
12 13
lecture 8

Energy and momentum of EM waves in a vacuum, bound current from time varying polarization density, Macroscopic Maxwell's equations in matter, wave in a linear material with constant permeability and permeativity

Supplemental Notes

Magnetic Materials
14
Recitation
15
HW #3 due
16

17 18
lecture 9

Frequency dependent polarizability, electric susceptibility and permittivity, non-local in time relation between displacement field D and electric field E, dispersion relation for waves in a dielectric
19 20
lecture 10

Effects of permittivity ε(ω) being complex and frequency dependent, phase velocity, group velocity, normal and anomalous dispersion, wave pulse spreading
21 22
HW #4 due
23

24 25
lecture 11

Real and imaginary parts of the permittivity, real and imaginary parts of the wavenumber, regions of transparent propagation, resonant absorption, and total reflection
26 27
lecture 12

Waves in a conductor, free current density and free charge density, frequency dependent conductivity, dispersion relation, good and poor conductors, skin depth, plasma frequency
28