4420:  Classical Physics II

Syllabus

Instructor: Eugene Mishchenko, 313 JFB, Phone 581-7115

Class meets: 10:45 AM-12:05 PM, Tuesday and Thursday at WBB 517

Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 3:00-4:00PM, or by appointment

Secretary: Heidi Frank, JFB 201C, Phone: 581-5697

Textbook: Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics, 3rd edition

Class

Date

Subject

Reading

Homeworks
Due
Solutions

1

Tue Jan 8

Differential vector calculus

1.1-1.2

 

 

 

2

Thu Jan 10

Integral vector calculus

1.3-1.4

#1

 

 

3

Tue Jan 15

Electric field, Gauss’s law, electric potential

2.1-2.3

 

 

 

4

Thu Jan 17

Poisson equation, electrostatic energy

2.3-2.5

#2

Homework #1

 #1 

5

Tue Jan 22

Conductors, method of images, capacitance

2.5; 3.2

 

 

 

6

Thu Jan 24

Laplace equation, separation of variables

3.1; 3.3

#3

Homework #2

#2 

7

Tue Jan 29

Multipole expansion, Legendre polynomials

3.3.2; 3.4

 

 

 

8

Thu Jan 31

Polarization of dielectrics

4.1; 4.2

#4

Homework #3

#3 

9

Tue Feb 5

Electric displacement, boundary conditions

4.3

 
 
 
 
 
 

10

Thu Feb 7

Electrostatic problems for linear dielectrics

4.4

#5

Homework #4

#4

11

Tue Feb 12

Lorentz force, currents, equations of magnetostatics,

5.1; 5.3

 

 

 

12

Thu Feb 14

Vector potential, Biot-Savart Law

5.2, 5.4

#6

Homework #5

#5

13

Tue Feb 19

Poisson equation for a solenoid problem, delta-functions

1.5

 

 

 

14

Thu Feb 21

Magnetic dipole; magnetization of matter, types of magnetics

6.1; 6.2

#7

Homework #6

#6

15

Tue Feb 26

Auxiliary field H, susceptibility, permeability

6.3; 6.4.1

 

 

 

16

Thu Feb 28

Qualitative methods: lines of magnetic field, graphic representation of boundary conditions, superconductors, ferromagnets, domains, hysteresis

6.4.2

#8

Homework #7

#7

 

Tue Mar 4

Midterm test

 

problems

 

solutions

17

Thu Mar 6

Electromotive force, Faraday’s law

7.1; 7.2

 

 

 

18

Tue Mar 11

Ohm’s law, penetration depth in metals, skin-effect

 

 

 

 

19

Thu Mar 13

Maxwell’s equations

7.3

#9

Homework #8

#8

20

Tue Mar 25

Energy of electromagnetic field, Poynting vector

8.1

 

 

 

21

Thu Mar 27

Electromagnetic waves in vacuum

9.2

#10

Homework #9

#9

22

Tue Apr 1

Reflection and transmission, total internal reflection

9.3

 

 

 

23

Thu Apr 3

Reflection and transmission (cont.), Brewster’s angle

9.3

#11

Homework #10

#10

24

Tue Apr 8

Retarded potentials,

Electric dipole radiation

10.1.1; 10.2.1;

11.1.1; 11.1.2

 

 

 

25

Thu Apr 10
Waves in ionosphere; plasmons, surface plasmons

 

#12

Homework #11

#11

26

Tue Apr 15
Magnetic dipole radiation, light scattering

11.1.4

 

 

 

27

Thu Apr 17
Relativity of space and time

12.1, 12.2

 

Homework #12

#12

28

Tue Apr 22
Lorentz transformations of the field

12.3.1, 12.3.2

 

 

 

 

 
Final test

 

Problems

 

Solutions

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