A complete set of lecture notes is in the 743 ringbook on the Reserve Shelf in the Physics Library. The following lecture notes and fragments are also available on the web and can be printed in various ways (see Printing Instructions at the end of this file):
Last semester's final exam, with some answers
Lecture 7-5: Dispersion characteristics of
Dielectrics, Conductors, and Plasmas
Lecture 7-6: EM waves in the Ionosphere and
magnetosphere
Lecture 7-7: Waves in a conducting medium
, with separately viewable figures.
Lecture 7-8: Wave packets. Group velocity
Lecture 7-10: Causality and Dispersion
Relations
Lecture 8-1: Fields at a conductor's
surface
Lecture 8-3: Cylindrical cavities and
waveguides, with movies of
-- Reflection and guided waves
-- E and H fields in a box
Cavity fields and boundary conditions --
Appendix to Lecture 8-3
Lecture 8-5: Power losses in cavities
and waveguides
Complex impedance and power in a linear system
Lecture 8-10: Dielectric waveguides
Lecture 9-1: Radiation by a localized source
Lecture 9-2: Electric dipole fields and
radiation, with movie of
-- Radiation pattern of a
rotating electric dipole. See also the
caption.
Lecture 9-3: Magnetic dipole and electric
quadrupole radiation
Lecture 9-4: The center-fed linear antenna
Lecture 9-6: Scattering at long
wavelengths, with separately viewable
figures.
Movie of
scattering from an array, best viewed as a sequence of frames
Lecture 9-7: Scattering by inhomogeneities
in a medium
Lecture 9-8: Scalar diffraction theory
(figures not yet available on the web)
Lecture 9-9: The vector Kirchhoff
integral
Lecture 9-10: Vectorial diffraction theory
Lecture 9-11: Babinet's principle of
complementarity
Lecture 9-12: Circular apertures
Lecture 9-14: Forward scattering
and the optical theorem
Lecture 11-1: History of relativity
Lecture 11-3: The Lorentz
transformation
Lecture 11-5: Relativistic energy-momentum
and kinematics
Lecture 11-6: Relativistic space-time
and vectors
Lecture 11-7: Lorentz matrices. Part of
this lecture is also
available in html.
Lecture 11-9: Electrodynamics in
covariant notation
Lecture 11-10: Transformation of the
electromagnetic fields
Lecture 11-11: Spin and the Thomas
precession
Lecture 12-1: Lagrangian of a charged particle
Lecture 12-3: Motion in uniform, static
fields
Lecture 12-8: Electromagnetic field
Lagrangian
Lecture 12-10: Conservation laws
Lecture 14-1: Radiation by moving
charges
Lecture 14-2: Classical radiated
power
Lecture 14-3: Time distribution
of emitted radiation
Lecture 14-5: Frequency distribution
of emitted radiation
Lecture 14-6: Synchrotron
radiation
Only this file and a few notes have been converted to the .html format and
look good on the web.
Such files can be printed directly from the www screen
by clicking on File, Print (on a PC, you can also type Alt-fp).
Other Hints for HTML files are at the end.
Most lecture notes were created in LaTeX using Scientific Workplace 2.5
(SWP25) and not converted to HTML. You can view them using SWP25 (strongly
recommended) or with another TeX previewer and you can get the high quality
TeX printout as in this example:
In the directory .../742/notes/lect02 you will find lect02.tex, lect02.dvi,
lect02.ps, and some auxiliary files. If you have Scientific Work Place,
just use it on lect02.tex (see Hints below). Otherwise ...
If your system is properly set up, you can view lect02.dvi and print it,
or you can directly print lect02.ps; this should work (using GhostView)
on the PC's and Macs in Room 220 (unless they have been reset). Or you can
transfer either file to your system and play with it.
The file lect02.tex is the LaTeX source file, out of which the others
were created. In order to use it, you really need Scientific Work Place.
If you know about TeX, you can modify it for some other TeX processor,
but this is seldom worth the trouble. However, in some cases I have made
the conversion to a generic LaTeX format myself, as indicated in a comment
at the top of the file, and then any Latex processor is likely to work.
Good luck.
Hint on viewing:
What Netscape does with a file depends on the choices made under
Options, Preferences.
A good way is to associate the .tex extension with Scientific WorkPlace
(if present), so that you can directly get the same view of the file as in
class. The PC's in Physics 220 are set up this way.
Another way is to associate the .tex extension with Notepad
(on a PC) so that lect02.tex can be viewed as a text file, modified
for your TeX processor if needed, and saved to disk for processing.
It is also possible to make Netscape transfer the .tex file to disk
directly.
The printout off the www screen is generally good if there is no math. Math shows fairly well if you use Netscape, may give trouble using Mosaic. A PC prints math better than a Mac (choose Black and White Images on a Mac, or you will get no math). I got the best results from the PC's in Room 220, Physics Building, by setting the print quality to Medium and the image quality also to Medium (in the Options menu).
Vittorio Celli