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PHY 415: Electromagnetic Theory I
Prof. S. Teitel stte@pas.rochester.edu ---- Fall 2011

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2 3

lecture 9

Multipole expansion - monopole, dipole, quadrupole moments

4 5

lecture 10

electric multipole expansion continued, magnetic dipole approximation

HW 2 due

6 7 8
9 10

Fall break

11

Fall break

12

lecture 11

magnetic scalar potential, boundary conditions at a current sheet, examples

13 14 15
16 17

lecture 12

symmetry under parity transformations, dielectrics

HW 3 due

18 19

lecture 13

polarization density, electric dispacement field D, magnetic materials, paramagnetism and diamagnetism, bound currents

20

Meliora Weekend

21

Meliora Weekend

22

Meliora Weekend

23

Meliora Weekend

24

lecture 14

magnetization density, H field, boundary conditions

25 26

lecture 15

Linear Materials: electric and magnetic susceptibilities, dielectric constant, magnetic permeability, atomic polarizability and the Clausius-Mossotti equation, boundary condition problems

HW 4 due

27 28 29
30 31

lecture 16

point charge in a dielectric sphere, bar magnets, electromagnetism and conservation of energy