PHYS-6410: Electrodynamics

Tentative Schedule - Spring, 2008

 

Class

Date

Read*

Topic

1

1/15

0.1-6

Introduction

2

1/18

1.1-2

Relativistic Kinematics

3

1/22

1.3-4

Tensors and Tensor Calculus

4

1/25

2.1

Relativistic Dynamics – Free Particle

5

1/29

2.2

Relativistic Dynamics – Charged Particles

6

2/1

2.3-4

Covariant Formulation of Electromagnetism

7

2/5

4.1

Electromagnetic Waves

8

2/8

4.2.1-2

Fourier Decomposition of an EM Field

9

2/12

4.2.3-4

Canonical Equations of Motion, Blackbody

Radiation, Einstein Coefficients

10

2/15

 

Exam 1

 

2/19

 

NO CLASS (Monday schedule)

11

2/22

4.3

EM Waves in a Plasma

12

2/26

5.1

Fourier Transforms

13

   2/29

 

Cancelled

14

3/4

5.2

Method of Virtual Quanta - Theory

15

3/7

 

Cancelled

 

3/11

 

NO CLASS (Spring Break)

 

3/14

 

NO CLASS (Spring Break)

16

3/18

5.2

Method of Virtual Quanta - Applications

17

3/21

6.1-2

Polarization and Magnetization

18

3/25

7.1

Plane Waves

19

3/28

7.1

Plane Waves

20

4/1

7.2

Reflection and Refraction

21

4/4

8.1

Nonlinear Susceptibility

22

4/8

 

Exam 2

23

4/11

8.2

Multiphoton Processes

24

4/15

8.2

Multiphoton Processes

25

4/18

10.1

Radiation by Relativistic Particles

26

4/22

10.2-3

Bremmstrahlumg, Transition Radiation

27

4/25

10.4

Synchrotron Radiation

28

4/29

 

Exam 3

 

*Required reading in Brau.

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