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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