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Monday
8/24/2020 |
Prelecture 1 |
Lecture 1 |
HW-1 |
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Tuesday
8/25/2020 |
Discussion 1 |
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Wednesday
8/26/2020 |
Prelecture 2 link |
Lecture 2 Electric and Magnetic Fields in Matter Boundary conditions using D, E, B and H |
Discussion 1 Solution |
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Thursday
8/27/2020 |
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Friday
8/28/2020 |
Prelecture 3 link |
Lecture 3 Faraday's Law and the Ampere/Maxwell Law Inductances and derivation of the Wave Equation Reminder: Study AC Circuit Theory |
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Monday
8/31/2020 |
Prelecture 4 link |
Lecture 4 Wave Equation, Plane Waves and Polarization |
9.1 9.2.2 |
HW-2 |
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Tuesday
9/1/2020 |
Discussion 2 Online |
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Wednesday
9/2/2020 |
Prelecture 5 link |
Lecture 5 Energy Flux, Poynting's Vector, Conservation of Energy Discussion of Levi Civita Symbol Also check out Three dimensions definition in this file: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi-Civita_symbol Also in the product section look at "A special case of this result is (4):" We will use this product again on Monday |
8.1 8.2.3 9.2.3 |
Discussion 2 Solution ​pdf |
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Thursday
9/3/2020 |
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Friday
9/4/2020 |
Prelecture 6 link |
Lecture 6 EM Momentum Density, Total Momentum is Field plus Mechanical Conservation of Total Momentum |
8.2.3 9.2.3 |
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Monday
9/7/2020 |
Labor Day Holiday | |||||
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Tuesday
9/8/2020 |
HW-3 |
Discussion 3 Online |
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Wednesday
9/9/2020 |
Prelecture 7 |
Lecture 7 Maxwell Stress Tensor |
8.2 8.2.2 |
Discussion 3 Solution ​pdf |
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Thursday
9/10/2020 |
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Friday
9/11/2020 |
Prelecture 8 link |
Lecture 8 Propagation of EM radiation in dielectrics, Polarization current densithy Microscopic model of dielectric response Complex dielectric function |
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Monday
9/14/2020 |
Prelecture 9 link |
Lecture 9 Microscopic model of dielectric response Complex dielectric function |
9.4.3 |
HW-4 |
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Tuesday
9/15/2020 |
Discussion 4 Online |
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Wednesday
9/16/2020 |
Prelecture 10 link |
Lecture 10 Phase Velocity, Fourier Transforms, Wave packets, Group Velocity |
9.4.3 | Discussion 4 Solution ​pdf |
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Thursday
9/17/2020 |
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Friday
9/18/2020 |
Prelecture 11 link |
Lecture 11 Birefringence polarization dependent refractive index, quarter wave plate change linearly polarized light to circularly polarized light Faraday Effect and Magneto-Optical behavior Note: This is NOT Faraday's Law. It's a separate discovery. |
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Monday
9/21/2020 |
Prelecture 12 link |
Lecture 12 Lecture12notes |
9.3.2 9.3.3 |
HW-5 HW5Solution |
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Tuesday
9/22/2020 |
Discussion 5 Online |
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Wednesday
9/23/2020 |
Prelecture 13 link |
Lecture 13 Propagation of light inside conductors A modified wave equatio |
9.4.1 | Discussion 5 Solution |
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Thursday
9/24/2020 |
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Friday
9/25/2020 |
Prelecture 14 link |
Lecture 14 Reflection from conductors Power reflection coefficient |
9.4.2 | ||||
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Monday
9/28/2020 |
Prelecture 15 | Lecture 15 Propagation of coupled light/plasma waves Classical Longitudinal Plasmons |
Notes |
HW-6 |
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Tuesday
9/29/2020 |
Discussion 6 Online |
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Wednesday
9/30/2020 |
Prelecture 16 |
Lecture 16 Apparent Weight of Photons (topic brought up in a question today) |
Notes | Discussion 6 Solution |
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Thursday
10/1/2020 |
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Friday
10/2/2020 |
Prelecture 17 | Lecture 17 Waveguides I |
9.5.1 | ||||
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Monday
10/5/2020 |
Prelecture 18 | Lecture 18 Waveguides II, Optical Fiber Modes |
9.5.2 notes |
HW-7 |
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Tuesday
10/6/2020 |
Discussion 7 Online |
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Wednesday
10/7/2020 |
Prelecture 19 | Lecture 19 Microwave Cavity Resonators |
9.5.3 | Discussion 7 Solution |
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Thursday
10/8/2020 |
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Friday
10/9/2020 |
Prelecture 20 | Lecture 20 Time Dependent Potential Functions, A(r,t) and V(r,t) |
10.1 | ||||
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Monday
10/12/2020 |
Prelecture 21 | Lecture 21 Gauge transformations including time dependence Lorentz Gauge Solution to Lorentz Gauge Potentials Lecture on same topic from physics 505 (from page 277 on) |
10.1 | |||
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Tuesday
10/13/2020 |
Discussion 8 Online |
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Wednesday
10/14/2020 |
Prelecture 22 | Lecture 22 Solution to Lorentz Gauge Potential Problems |
10.1 | Discussion 8 Solution |
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Thursday
10/15/2020 |
Midterm Exam I |
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Friday
10/16/2020 |
Prelecture 23 | Lecture 23 Solution for time dependent potential functions |
10.1 10/2/1 |
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Monday
10/19/2020 |
Prelecture 24 | Lecture 24 Electric Dipole Radiation |
11.1 | |||
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Tuesday
10/20/2020 |
HW8 HW8 Solution |
Discussion 9 Online |
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Wednesday
10/21/2020 |
Prelecture 25 | Lecture 25 Radiation from Accelerated Point Charges Larmor Formula |
11.2 | Discussion 9 Solution |
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Thursday
10/22/2020 |
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Friday
10/23/2020 |
Prelecture 26 | Lecture 26 Radiation from a Polarization Wave Non-Linear Optics |
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Monday
10/26/2020 |
Prelecture 27 | Lecture 27 Non-Linear Optics The first part of these notes is the same as the notes for Lect 26 |
Notes | |||
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Tuesday
10/27/2020 |
HW9 HW9Solution |
Discussion 10 Online |
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Wednesday
10/28/2020 |
Prelecture 28 | Lecture 28 Non-Linear Optics The first part of these notes is the same as the notes for Lect 26 |
Notes | Discussion 10 Solution |
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Thursday
10/29/2020 |
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Friday
10/30/2020 |
Prelecture 29 | Lecture 29 Applications of Nonlinear Optics Second Harmonic Generation A bit on Gaussian Optics |
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Monday
11/2/2020 |
Prelecture 30 | Lecture 30 Electro-optics, EO modulators |
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Tuesday
11/3/2020 |
HW10 HW10Solution |
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Wednesday
11/4/2020 |
Prelecture 31 | Lecture 31 Coordinate Transformations in Special Relativity Lorentz Transformations Lorentz transformations of 4 vectors Lambda Matrices and Covariant and Contravariant 4-vectors |
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Thursday
11/5/2020 |
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Friday
11/6/2020 |
Prelecture 32 | Lecture 32 Time/Position 4 vector Transformation Wave Vector 4 vector Transformation≈ |
12.1 | ||||
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Monday
11/9/2020 |
Prelecture 33 | Lecture 33 Time/Position 4 vector Transformation Energy/Momentum 4 vector Transformation |
12.1 | |||
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Tuesday
11/10/2020 |
Discussion 11 Online |
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Wednesday
11/11/2020 |
Prelecture 34 | Lecture 34 Relativistic Equations of Particle Motion What happens to F=ma in Special Relativity? |
12.2 | Discussion 11 Solution |
Midterm Exam II |
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Thursday
11/12/2020 |
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Friday
11/13/2020 |
Prelecture 35 | Lecture 35 Covariant Electromagnetism How do Electric and Magnetic Fields transform from one IRF to another |
12.3 | ||||
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Monday
11/16/2020 |
Prelecture 36 | Lecture 36 Electric and Magnetic Fields from a Moving Charge You have to transform coordinates and fields to do this! |
12.3 | |||
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Tuesday
11/17/2020 |
HW11 HW11 Solution |
Discussion 12 Online |
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Wednesday
11/18/2020 |
Prelecture 37 | Lecture 37 Field Pattern Transformations |
12.3 | Discussion 12 Solution |
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Thursday
11/19/2020 |
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Friday
11/20/2020 |
Prelecture 38 | Lecture 38 Field Pattern Tranformations Maxwell's Equations in Relativistic Form Discussion of Twin Problem |
12.3 | ||||
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Monday
11/23/2020 |
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| 15 |
Monday
11/10/2020 |
Prelecture 39 | Lecture 39 Lagrangian for Relativistic Dynamics from Lorentz Force Law Identification of Canonical Momentum. (Important for QM Hamiltonian Dynamics) |
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Tuesday
12/1/2020 |
HW12 HW12 Solution |
Discussion 13 Online |
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Wednesday
12/2/2020 |
Prelecture 40 | Lecture 40 Radiation from a Relativisitic Charge Two ways to do this: Field Transformations Examples: Free Electron Lasers |
Notes | Discussion 13 Solution |
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Thursday
12/3/2020 |
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Friday
12/4/2020 |
Prelecture 41 | Lecture 41 Radiation from a Relativisitic Charge Two ways to do this: Retarded Potentials Leinard Wiechart Potentials CORRECTED NOTES as of 12-8-2020 (t' error in last expression on page 10 fixed) |
Notes 10.3 |
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Monday
12/7/2020 |
Lecture 42 Radiation from relativisitic accelerated charge. Field transformation. |
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Tuesday
12/8/2020 |
Discussion 14 Online |
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Wednesday
12/9/2020 |
Lecture 43 Review II |
Discussion 14 Solution |
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Thursday
12/10/2020 |
Reading Day | ||||||
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Friday
12/11/2020 |
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