Instructor: V. Celli, Physics 311D, Tel. 924-6573 (Phys Dept: 612), vc@virginia.edu. Office Hours: Mo, Tu 1:30 - 3:00
Grader: David Djajaputra, Physics 157 (New North Wing), Tel. 924-7958, dd4b@virginia.edu. Office Hour: Tu 1:00 - 2:00
Textbook: Classical Electricity and Magnetism, 2nd ed., J.D. Jackson.
Material: Chapters 7 (in part) to 16 (wave guides, emission and scattering of radiation, relativistic dynamics). Notes and homework solutions on reserve shelf in Physics Library and on the Web.
Grading: There will be homework assignments, two in-class tests and a final. They will count toward the grade as follows.
Exams: The first in-class test will be on Tuesday, October 1 and will relate to material in sections 7.6 to 9.5. The second in-class test will be on Tuesday, November 5 and will relate to material in sections 9.6 to 11.11. The final exam will be as follows: one third of the questions will relate to chapters 12-16, the rest can relate to any chapter, or to combined material from several chapters.
No books or notes allowed on the in-class tests and final exam.
Homework assignments will be handed out every Thursday (except when there is an in-class test) and will be due by class time the following Tuesday. They are not pledged. A 10% per day penalty will be applied to any part of the homework that is handed in late without justification. No-penalty extensions can be requested for good reasons, including other pressing academic requirements.
The relation of dates to topics given below is approximate, corrections could be applied as needed during the semester.
Chapter 7
8/29 Review. Correction of last semester's final exam.
9/03 Kramers-Kronig relations.
9/05 Group and phase velocity, spreading of a pulse.
Chapter 8
9/10 Fields at the surface of a conductor.
9/12 Cylindrical cavities and waveguides: normal modes.
9/17 Power losses in cavities and waveguides.
Chapter 9
9/19 Fields and radiation from oscillating source, electric dipole radiation.
9/24 Magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole radiation.
9/26 Simple antennas.
10/01 IN-CLASS TEST
10/03 Scattering in the long wave limit.
10/8 FALL BREAK
10/10 Scattering by inhomogeneities. Collections of scatterers.
10/15 Diffraction theory, Kirchhoff integrals.
Chapter 11
10/17 Relativity: Lorentz transformations, review of basic results.
10/22 Space-time. Relativistic kinematics.
10/24 Matrix representations, Lorentz group. Thomas precession.
10/29 Covariant formulation of electrodynamics.
10/31 Transformations of the EM fields. Spin.
11/05 IN-CLASS TEST
Chapter 12
11/07 Lagrangian for charged particles in EM fields.
11/12 Motion in a uniform EM field.
11/14 EM field Lagrangian. Maxwell stress tensor.
Chapter 14
11/19 Liénard-Wiechert potentials and fields.
11/21 Power radiated by an accelerated charge.
11/26 Angular distribution of emitted radiation.
11/28 THANKSGIVING BREAK.
12/03 Synchrotron radiation.
Chapter 16
12/05 Multipole radiation.