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PHY 415: Electromagnetic Theory I
Prof. S. Teitel stte@pas.rochester.edu ---- Fall 2007

Lecture Notes

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  • Lecture 0 - A brief history of electromagnetism

  • Lecture 1 - From Coulomb to Maxwell: Coulomb's law, superposition, charge density, electric field, Maxwell's equations for electrostatics

  • Lecture 2 - From Coulomb to Maxwell continued: magnetostatics, Lorentz force, Biot-Savart law, local charge conservation, Faraday's law, Maxwell's correction to Ampere's law, the complete Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic waves, systems of units

  • Lecture 3 - Electromagnetic scalar and vector potentials, gauge invariance, the Lorentz gauge

  • Lecture 4 - Coulomb gauge, longitudinal and transverse parts of a vector field, the Greens function

    Extra Notes - Review of Fourier transforms

  • Lecture 5 -Electrostatics: the Coulomb problem as a boundary value problem, properties of a conductor in electrostatics, boundary conditions at a charged surface, Greens identities, uniqueness of solution

  • Lecture 6 - The image charge method

  • Lecture 7 - The separation of variables method: cartesian and cylindrical coordinates

  • Lecture 8 - The separation of variables method: spherical coordinates

  • Lecture 9 - The multipole expansion

  • Lecture 10 - The magnetic dipole approximation

  • Lecture 11 - The magnetic scalar potential

  • Lecture 12 - Vectors and pseudovectors; the macroscopic Maxell equations: dielectrics, polarization density

  • Lecture 13 - The macroscopic Maxell equations: displacement field D, bound charge, magnetic materials

  • Lecture 14 - Magnetic field H, bound currents

  • Lecture 15 - Boundary conditions, linear materials, Clausius - Massoti equation

  • Lecture 16 - Linear dielectrics, bar magnets

  • Lecture 17 - Energy conservation, Poynting vector, electrostatic and magnetostatic energy

  • Lecture 18 - Momentum conservation, force on a conducting surface, capacitance matrix, inductance matrix

  • Lecture 19 - Force and torque on electric and magnetic dipoles, interaction energy of electric and magnetic dipoles

  • Lecture 20 - Electromagnetic waves in the vacuum, energy and momentum carried by electromagnetic waves

  • Lecture 21 - Frequency dependent polarizability, frequency dependent dielectric function, electromagnetic waves in dielectrics

  • Lecture 22 - Electromagnetic waves in dielectrics and conductors

  • Lecture 23 - Electromagnetic waves in conductors, plasma frequency, plasma oscillations, linear, circular and elliptical polarization

  • Lecture 24 - Reflection and transmission at an interface, Snell's law, total internal reflection, reflection coefficients, Brewster's angle

  • Lecture 25 - Kramers-Kronig relation, Greens function for the wave equation

  • Lecture 26 - Lienard-Wiechert potentials from a moving charge, radiation from an oscillating source

  • Lecture 27 - Electric dipole, magnetic dipole and electric quadapole radiation, Larmor's formula

  • Lecture 28 - Special relativity and electromagnetism