October

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lecture 9

Separation of variables in spherical coordinates, Legendre polynomials

HW 2 due
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fall break
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fall break
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lecture 10

Examples, multipole expansion

supplement

Eigenfunction expansion for the Greens function
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lecture 11

Multipole expansion, magnetostatics, magnetic dipole approximation

HW 3 due
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lecture 12

Magnetic dipole approximation, magnetostatic scalar potential, boundary conditions at a sheet current, examples
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lecture 13

Example, symmetry under parity transformations, macroscopic Maxwell's equations
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lecture 14

Dielectrics, polarization density, electric displacement vector D, bound volume and surface charge density

HW 4 due
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lecture 15

Macroscopic Maxwell's equations: magnetization density, H field, bound volume and surface current, vanishing of total bound charge and current
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lecture 16

Boundary conditions, linear materials: electric and magnetic susceptibilities, dielectric constant, magnetic permeability, atomic polarizability and the Clausius-Mossotti equation, screening of free charge
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