COURSE TIME: MWF 10:30-11:20 pm. COURSE LOCATION: Physics 185. INSTRUCTOR: Richard Scalettar OFFICE: Physics-Geology 409. OFFICE HOURS: Mo 3:00 pm -4:00 pm; or by appointment. GRADING: Homework 60%: Midterm Exam 15%: Friday May 5 Final Exam 25%: Take Home, due Tuesday, June 13, noon.

What to expect from this course.

SYLLABUS:
Electricity and Magnetism in Macroscopic Media
Maxwell's Equations and Macroscopic Electromagnetism
Plane Electromagnetic Waves and Wave Propagation
Waveguides, Resonant Cavities and Optical Fibers
Radiating Systems, Multipole Fields, and Radiation
Special Theory of Relativity
Radiation by Moving Charges
Dynamics of Relativistic Particles and Electromagnetic Fields

NOTES
Electrostatic Fields in Matter
Greens Function Review
Faraday's Law
Diffusion Equation for Vector Potential
Maxwell's Equations and Gauge Transformations
Maxwell's Equations and Gauge Transformations, Another discussion
Greens function for the Wave Equation
Energy in Electromagnetic Fields and the Poynting Vector
The Potentials
The Fields
Two Radiation Problems
Plane Electromagnetic Waves
EM Waves in a Laser beam
EM Energy Scales and Two Problems
Relativity, part 1
Relativity, part 2

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS
Assignment 1
Solutions
Assignment 2
Solutions
Assignment 3
Solutions
2016 Midterm Exam (with solution) Note that problem 2 should have stated that the displacement current term should be ignored.
2017 Midterm Exam (with solution)
Assignment 4
Assignment 5 (part A)
Assignment 5 (part B)
Assignment 6