PHYS 832 Winter 2015
by Prof. Mark Chen
2015-04-23: Final exam. Good luck!
2015-04-21: Problem Set #4 (marked) can be picked up (on the shelf near my office).
2015-04-19: The take-home final exam will be posted here on Thursday 2015-04-23 at 11:00 EDT. You can drop by my office to get a paper copy if you want (and to get optional answer booklets, if you want). Your answers are due 24 hours later, on Friday 2015-04-24 at 11:00 EDT, in my office. Open textbook (Jackson plus one other book) and open written notes are permitted. Internet use is not permitted except for the course webpage or except for looking up ordinary math such as integrals or trig identities.
2015-04-13: Problem Set #3 (marked) is ready to be picked up. I have them on the shelf down the hallway from my office. Solutions are posted (below).
2015-04-08: The reading list for studying for the final is pdf.
2015-03-30: Problem Set #4 (see below) is due 2015-04-09.
2015-03-16: I updated the notes on the EM stress-energy tensor, splitting them off from the Lagrangian notes. FYI.
2015-03-10: Problem Set #3 (see below) is due 2015-03-17.
2015-03-05: Midterm solution posted pdf.
2015-02-24: The formula sheet for the midterm.
2015-02-23: Solutions for the Problems Sets are posted (below).
2015-02-10: Here is a reading list for studying for the midterm pdf.
2015-02-09: Please look at this schedule and marking info pdf.
Class Schedule: Tuesday 12:10-13:40 and Thursday 09:15-10:45 in Room 261 (and on Skype!)
Instructor: Mark Chen, Stirling 208E
Review of Maxwell's Equations and Electrostatics
Green's Function Solutions of Boundary Value Problems
Magnetostatics and the Vector Potential
Special Relativity and 4-Vector Notation
Jackson Problem: Point Charge near Isolated, Conducting Sphere
Transforming E and B Fields; Illuminating Example with Relativistic Charged Particle
Jackson Problem: Covariant Ohm's Law
Motion in Non-Uniform E and B Fields
Lagrangian for Charged Particle in External EM Field
Green's Function for Time-Varying Sources
EM Field for Point Charge in Arbitrary Motion
Radiation from Accelerated Charge: Angular Distribution
Synchrotron Radiation: Frequency Spectrum
PHYS 832 Winter 2011
by Prof. Larry Widrow
Electrostatics and Magnetostatics
Faraday's Law, Maxwell's displacement current, energy and momentum
Mathematical treatment: 4-vectors
Motion in static, spatially-varying B-fields
Adiabatic invariants/Lagrangian formulation of Lorentz force Law
Lagrangian formulation for Maxwell's equations
Green's function for electromagnetism
Larmor's formula and relativistic generalization
Assignment 1, Due Tuesday, January 25
Assignment 2, Due Friday, January 28
Assignment 3, Jackson 11.14 and 11.16, Due Tuesday, February 8
Assignment 4, Jackson 12.5 and 12.9, Due Friday, February 18 Note that for 12.9c, you'll either have to wait for Tuesday's lecture or read ahead for section 12.5.
Assignment 5, Due March 25 (Please, no late assignments!) Jackson 12.14, 12.15, 14.5, 14.7a,b, 14.8
Assignment 6, Due April 18 Jackson 13.1, 13.2, 13.3