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Most course information will be available on this web site, and will also be distributed by email. If you are not receiving course email, please let me know (stroud@mps.ohio-state.edu) and I will add your name to the distribution list.
Grades will be based on roughly weekly homework (25%), a midterm (30%) and a final (45%). In grading the homeworks, I will discard your lowest problem set, and obtain a percentage score based on all your other problem sets. The midterm will be Friday, February 3 from 9:00 to 10:20. The final will be Wednesday, March 16 from 9:25 to 11:25. Both will be open book and open notes, and will take place in our usual classroom.
The tentative syllabus for spring quarter is special theory of relativity (chapters 11 and 12); some topics chosen from chapters 13 and 14, and material drawn from more modern topics, such as photonic band gap materials, nano-optical materials, and others.
Note: a useful online math reference is http://mathworld.wolfram.com, which has lots of analysis, plus a great deal of information about special functions. Two good books are "Tables of Integrals, Series, and Products," 6th ed., by Gradshteyn, Ryzhik, Jeffrey, and Zwillinger (Academic, San Diego, 2000), and "Mathematical Methods for Physicists," by Arfken, Weber, and Weber (Academic, San Diego, 2001).
Each problem on each set is worth 10 points, unless otherwise specified. You are free to discuss the problems with one another, but you should write up your solutions independently. Problem sets will generally be due on Wednesdays at 5PM in the box of the grader.
oProblem Set 1 (in PostScript).
oSolutions to Prob. Set. 1 (in .pdf).
oProblem Set 2 (in PostScript).
oProblem Set 3 (in PostScript).
oSolutions to Prob. Set 2 (.pdf)
oSolutions to Prob. Set 3 (.pdf)
oProblem Set 4, Parts I and II (in .pdf)
oSolutions to Prob. Set 4 (.pdf).
oProblem Set 5 (in .pdf).
oSolutions to Prob. Set 5 (.pdf).
oProblem Set 6 (in .pdf).
oSolutions to Prob. Set 6 (.pdf)
oProblem Set 7 (in .pdf).
oSolutions to Prob. Set 7(.pdf).
oProblem Set 8 (in .pdf).
oSolutions to Prob. Set 8 (.pdf).
NOTE: After February 15, my office will be 2048 of the Physics Research Building. Phone, email, etc. will remain the same as before.
For this week, I recommend reading Jackson, chapter 6, secs. 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, and 6.7. I also recommend section 6.6, though I don't plan to cover it in class, except perhaps a brief overview. Further reading suggestions will follow shortly.
Suggested reading for Jan 7, 10, 12, and 14: Jackson, section 6.6 (will not be covered in class or in exams; purely for further insights) 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and 7.4. I will cover the material in Jackson, chapter 7.5 and 7.8, but somewhat differently from the way Jackson does it.
Click on the red circles below to download lecture notes in pdf format. These are my hand-written notes, were originally intended for my eyes only, and I do not guarantee that they are mistake-free. I am posting them in case some of you find them useful.
oLecture notes for January 3 and 5 (.pdf format). On p. 15 of these notes, second and third lines, the quantity I denote u should have been called u_{field}, the energy stored in the electromagnetic fields. The total energy is given at the bottom of the page.
oLecture notes for January 7, 10, and 12 (.pdf format). These also include part of my planned lecture for Friday.
oLecture notes for January 14, 19, and 21 (.pdf format).
oLecture notes on a model for optical rotation (.pdf format). Pages 66-69.
oLecture notes on waveguides and resonant cavities. Pages 70-97. (.pdf format).
oLecture notes on radiation (part 1). Pages 98-111 (pdf format).
oLecture notes on radiation (part 2); .tif format.
oLecture notes on radiation (part 2); .pdf format.
oLecture notes on scattering (through March 7; pdf format).
oRemainder of scattering lecture notes; brief review notes (.pdf format).
oCharles Augustin de Coulomb
oSimeon Denis Poisson
oPierre Simon Marquis de Laplace
oGeorge Green
oJohann Karl Friedrich Gauss
oJohann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet
oPaul Adrien Maurice Dirac
oLeopold Kronecker
oAdrien-Marie Legendre
oWilhelm Bessel
oAndre Marie Ampere
oJean-Baptiste Biot
oMichael Faraday
oJames Clerk Maxwell