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Physics 436 Advanced Electromagnetism II
The Final Exam ...
... will take place in on Fri., May 6, 8-11 am in 2100 Sidney Lu Mech Engr Bldg. The exam will be comprehensive, covering everything in the course, though will emphasize material we discussed in class, discussion, or on the homework. Like past exams, the Final will be open book, meaning you can bring any static print materials including the text, printouts of lecture notes, homeworks, or a pre-prepared equation sheet of your own making. Electronic devices of any sort are not permitted. Calculators will be neither allowed nor needed. The exam will be have the length of two hour exams but you will have three hours to do it.
Hour Exam II ...
... will take place in class on Fri., Apr. 15. The exam will cover everything through Ch. 10.3.1 of Griffiths, i.e., Lectures 1-21. The exam will be open book, meaning you can bring any static print materials including the text, printouts of lecture notes, homeworks, or a pre-prepared equation sheet of your own making. Electronic devices of any sort are not permitted. Calculators will be neither allowed nor needed. The exam will be similar in style to the first hour exam, with 2-3 problems ranging from "easy" to "hard."
Hour Exam I ...
... will take place in class on Fri., Mar. 4. The exam will cover Chs. 8 - 9.3.1 of Griffiths, i.e., Lectures 1-9. The exam will be open book, meaning you can bring any static print materials including the text, printouts of lecture notes, homeworks, or a pre-prepared equation sheet of your own making. Electronic devices of any sort are not permitted. Calculators will be neither allowed nor needed. I don't have a sample exam available, but the style will be similar exams you took in Phys 435. It will probably have 2-3 problems, one of which will be "easy" and one "hard."
Welcome to Physics 436 -- Class starts on Friday, Jan. 21, 2022.
Phys 436 is the second semester of a year-long course in Classical Electrodynamics. The focus of 435 was to define the basic structure of E&M culminating in the completion of Maxwell's equations and the demonstration of electromagnetic waves. In Phys 436 we will use Maxwell's equations to define conservations laws for energy and momentum, examine in detail the properties of electromagnetic waves, compute how light scatters from interfaces, define the concept of optical dispersion, and investigate how waves propagate in bounded structures such as waveguides and transmission lines. We will also see how accelerating charges generate electromagnetic radiation. Finally, we will show how special relativitiy follows logically from Maxwell's equations, how concepts such as relativistic length contraction are required to make sense of conservation laws, and develop a covariant formulation of E&M. When the course is done you will have the machinery you need to understand any topic that uses E&M, ranging from satellites to fiber optics to transmon qubits.
Contact Information
Please use the email addresses listed below if you have any questions about any of the course components.
| Name | Role | Office Hour | Office Hour Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Abbamonte | Professor |
Mon 11-12 |
1004 MRL (Note that I have moved to a new office in the "Supercon" building between MRL and ESB. I am no longer in 104 MRL.) |
abbamont@illinois.edu |
| Marc Klinger | Discussion TA | Wed 10-11 am |
271 Loomis |
marck3@illinois.edu |
| Jiasen Hou | Grader | Tue 10-11 am | 390K Loomis | jiasenh2@illinois.edu |
| Chunyu Lu | Grader | Tue 1-2 pm | 271 Loomis | chunyul3@illinois.edu |
Academic Integrity
All activities in this course, including documentation submitted for petition for an excused absence, are subject to the Academic Integrity rules as described in Article 1, Part 4, Academic Integrity, of the Student Code.