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PHY 415: Electromagnetic Theory I
Prof. S. Teitel stte@pas.rochester.edu ---- Fall 2019

December

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1

Thanksgiving break

2

lecture 26

Green's function for the wave equation, Lienard-Weichert potentials for a moving charged particle, potentials from a point charged particle moving with constant velocity

HW #7 due 2pm

3 4

lecture 27

Radiation from a source oscillating with simple harmonic motion, electric dipole, magnetic dipole, and electric quadrupole radiation, radiated E and B fields in the electric dipole approximation

5

lecture 28

Poynting vector, and radiated power from an oscillating source in the electric dipole, magnetic dipole, and electric quadrupole approximations, radiation from a general time dependent source, Larmor's formula for radiation from an accelerating charge

9:40-10:55am in BL 375

6 7
8 9

lecture 29

Special relativity, Lorentz transformation, 4-vectors, proper time, 4-velocity, 4-gradient, 4-current, 4-potential

10 11

lecture 30

Field strength tensor, dual field strength tensor, and Maxwell's equations, transformation of E and B fields, 4-momentum, Minkowski force, Lorentz force, relativistic Larmor's formula

last day of classes

HW #8 due 2pm

12

reading period

13

reading period

14

reading period

15

final exams begin

16 17

FINAL EXAM 12:30-3:30pm in BL 269

18 19 20

final exams end

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