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

September

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Labor day, no classes

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lecture canceled

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lecture 1

Coulomb's law, electric field, Maxwell's equations for electrostatics

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lecture 2

Lorentz force, magnetic field, Maxwell's equations for magnetostatics, Faraday's law, Maxwell's correction to Ampere's law, EM waves

15 16

lecture 3

systems of units, scalar and vector potential, gauge transformations, Lorentz and Coulomb gauges

11 am BL 269

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lecture 4

longitudianl and transverse parts of a vector field, review Fourier transforms, Green's function, conductors in electrostatics

20 21

lecture 5

electric field at a charged surface, Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions, examples, Green's identities and uniqueness

lecture 5 supplement

Green's functions for Dirichlet and Neuman boundary conditions

22 23

lecture 6

the image charge method

11 am BL 269

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lecture 7

separation of variables in rectangular and polar coordinates

HW 1 due

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lecture 8

separation of variables in spherical coordinates, Legendre polynomials

lecture 8 supplement

eigenfunction expansion for the Greens function

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