Electromagnetic Field Theory
Physics 834, Autumn 2005
Instructor: Yuri
Kovchegov
Office: M2042 Physics Research Bldg
Office Hours: Mondays Wednesdays 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Course Meets: Mondays Wednesdays 9:30 am - 10:18 am, Fridays 8:30 am - 10:18 am, Smith
1180
Grader: Kohjiro Kobayashi
*** First Class Meets September 21st, 2005 ***
There will be no class on Wednesday, September 28 - I'll be out of town
Topics:
- Electrostatics, Poisson and Laplace Equations, Green Functions
- Boundary-Value Problems in Electrostatics: Method of Images, problems with spherical geometry (Legendre Polynomials, Spherical Harmonics) and problems with cylindrical geometry (Bessel Functions)
- Multipole Expansion, Dielectrics
- Magnetostatics: Biot and Savart Law, Ampere's Law, Vector Potential, Magnetic Moment, Boundary Value Problems in Magnetostatics
- Maxwell Equations (if we have time)
Textbook:
- J. D. Jackson - Classical Electrodynamics, 3rd Edition
- L.D. Landau, E.M. Lifshitz - The Classical Theory of Fields: Volume 2
- L.D. Landau, E.M. Lifshitz, L.P. Pitaevskii -
Electrodynamics of Continuous Media: Volume 8
Lecture Notes:
- Week 1: Wednesday, Friday
- Week 2: Monday, Wednesday - no class, Friday
- Week 3: Monday, Wednesday, Friday
- Week 4: Monday, Wednesday, Friday
- Week 5: Monday, Wednesday, Friday
- Week 6: Monday, Wednesday, Friday - Midterm
- Week 7: Monday - review of midterm solutions, Wednesday, Friday
- Week 8: Monday, Wednesday, Friday - no class, Veteran's Day
- Week 9: Monday, Wednesday, Friday - here's the Mathematica .nb file we'll need
- Week 10: Monday, Wednesday, Friday - no class, day after Thanksgiving
- Week 11: Monday, Wednesday, Friday
Homework Assignments:
(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 Monday, October 3) Jackson Problems 1.3, 1.4, 1.10 + two more problems -- Solution 1
- HW 2 (due Monday, October 10) Jackson Problems 1.5 (also calculate the potential energy of the bound electron discarding the delta-function term in the charge density), 1.6 (b), (c), 1.7 (omit the gauge wire part), 2.2 (each problem is 10 points) -- Solution 2
- HW 3 (due Monday, October 17) Jackson Problems 2.3 (a,b,c), 2.11, 2.15, 2.23 (a) (each problem is 10 points) -- Solution 3
- HW 4 (due Wednesday, October 26) Jackson Problems 3.9, 3.10, 3.1, 3.5, 3.14 (each problem is 10 points) -- Solution 4
- HW 5 (due Wednesday, November 9) Jackson Problems 4.1 (a) and (b) (you need to include moments only through quadrupole), 4.2, 4.4 (a), 4.7 (a),(b) (each problem is 10 points) -- Solution 5
- HW 6 (due Thursday, November 17) Jackson Problems 4.9, 4.10, 4.13 (each problem is 10 points) -- Solution 6
- HW 7 (due Wednesday, November 23) Jackson Problems 5.3, 5.6 (each problem is 10 points) -- Solution 7
- HW 8 (due Friday, December 2) Jackson Problems 5.11 (a), 5.13, 5.19 (a), 5.26 (each problem is 10 points) -- Solution 8
Exams: Midterm - October 28, 2005, Final - December 5, 2005, 9:30-11:18 am, Smith 1180