Electromagnetic Field Theory
Physics 7401, Spring 2014
Instructor: Yuri
Kovchegov
Office: M2042 Physics Research Bldg
Office Hours: stop by anytime
Course Meets: MWF 10:20 - 11:15 am, Scott Lab E0125.
Graders: Jinsong Xu, Alex Dyhdalo
*** First Class Meets January 8, 2014 (the Jan 6 class was canceled due to the University closure) ***
*** There will be no class Wednesday, February 26 and Friday, February 28 - I will be out of town: however, we will have a midterm on the 28th, 6:30 - 8:30 pm, proctored by the graders ***
Topics:
- Electrostatics of Dielectrics
- Magnetostatics: Biot and Savart Law, Ampere's Law, Vector Potential, Magnetic Moment, Boundary Value Problems in Magnetostatics
- Maxwell Equations, Green Functions for Wave Equation, Poynting Vector, Maxwell Stress Tensor
- Electromagnetic Waves and their Propagation
- Radiation, Multipole Expansion
- Scattering and Diffraction, Optical Theorem (if we have time)
- Special Relativity
- Relativistic Charges in Electromagnetic Fields
- Radiation by Moving Charges, Radiation Damping (if we have time)
Textbook(s):
Each of the following books adequately covers most of the material that we will study in class (though with some minor variations in the order of the topics). Choose whichever one works better for you. None is as comprehensive as Jackson though.
Recommended Reading :
Here are several references which may come in handy as well:
Lecture Notes:
These are the notes for the course, I plan to post them shortly after
each lecture. For the complete notes for the past E&M classes, please
see below.
- Electrostatics of Macroscopic Media, Dielectrics
- Magnetostatics
- Maxwell Equations, Their Solution, Conservation Laws
- Plane Electromagnetic Waves and Wave Propagation
- Midterm Review
- Radiation
- Special Relativity
- Relativistic Charges in Electromagnetic Fields
- Final Review
Lecture Notes (from past E&M classes):
These are the notes from when I taught this class many years ago during the quarter system (hence the mixed-up numbering).
- Multipoles, Electrostatics of Macroscopic Media, Dielectrics
- Magnetostatics, Faraday's Law, Quasi-Static Fields
- Lecture 27 (please disregard the final info at the end of the notes in this link)
Maxwell Equations, Macroscopic Electromagnetism, Conservation Laws
Lecture 2
Lecture 3
Lecture 4
Lecture 5
Plane Electromagnetic Waves and Wave Propagation
Midterm Review
Midterm
Radiating Systems, Multipole Fields and Radiation
Scattering and Diffraction
Special Relativity
Relativistic Charges in Electromagnetic Fields
Radiation by Moving Charges, Radiation Damping
Final Exam
Homework Assignments:
Homeworks are due at 11:59 pm on the due date. You may give them to the grader or to me, put them in either the grader's or my mailboxes in PRB or slide them under my office door if the other options are not available. Homeworks submitted late are penalized -10 pts. The cutoff for late HW submissions is 5 pm on the day after the HW is due. (Solutions are password
protected, they are for the use of OSU students and faculty only, please write to me if you are
interested in accessing them.)
- HW 1 (due Wednesday, January 22) Jackson Problems 4.9 [hint: you should find general solutions of Laplace/Poisson equations in all regions and match boundary conditions], 4.13; Zangwill problems 6.8, 6.14 -- Solution 1
- HW 2 (due Wednesday, January 29) -- Solution 2
- HW 3 (due Wednesday, February 5 --> deadline changed to Friday, February 7) -- Solution 3
- HW 4 (due Friday, February 14 --> changed to Monday, February 17) -- Solution 4
- HW 5 (due Monday, February 24 --> deadline changed to Wednesday, February 26, please give the HWs to the grader (Jinsong), since I will be out of town) -- Solution 5
- HW 6 (due Friday, March 7) -- Solution 6
- HW 7 (due Monday, March 24) -- Solution 7
- HW 8 (due Monday, March 31 --> deadline changed to Wednesday, April 2) -- Solution 8
- HW 9 (due Monday, April 7) -- Solution 9
- HW 10 (due Monday, April 14) -- Solution 10
- HW 11 (due Monday, April 21) -- Solution 11
Exams: Midterm - Friday, February 28, 2014, 6:30 - 8:30 pm, Smith seminar room in PRB Final - Thursday, April 24,
10:00am-12:30pm, Scott Lab E0125.
Grading: 30% HW, 30% Midterm, 40% Final
Yuri Kovchegov