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Physics 436 Advanced Electromagnetism II
The Phys 436 Final Exam ...
... will take place in on Fri., May 5, 7-10 pm in 1024 Chemistry Annex. The exam will cover Lectures 1-33, i.e., Griffiths Chs. 8 - 12.3.4. 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.
Phys 436 Hour Exam II ...
... will take place in class on Wed., Apr. 12. The exam will cover Chs. 8-10.3.1 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. I don't have a sample exam available, but the style will be similar Hour Exam I. It will probably have 2-3 problems, one of which will be "easy" and one "hard." Several people requested practice problems to help them prepare for this exam. So here are some (from the 4th edition of Griffiths): 9.16-9.20, 9.22-9.32, 9.36-9.40, 10.1-10.7, 10.10 -10.18, 10.24-10.30, 10.33, 10.34.
Phys 436 Hour Exam I ...
... will take place in class on Wed., Mar. 8. The exam will cover Chs. 8-9.3.1 of Griffiths, i.e., Lectures 1-9 (excluding Fresnel formulas). 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." Several people requested practice problems to help them prepare for this exam. So here are some (from the 4th edition of Griffiths): 8.1, 8.2, 8.13, 8.23, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5-8.7, 8.15, 8.16, 8.18, 8.20, 8.8-8.10, 8.17, 8.19, 8.21, 8.22, 8.24, 9.1-9.8, 9.33, 9.9, 9.10-9.13, 9.34, 9.35, 9.14, 9.15.
Welcome to Physics 436 -- Class starts on Wed., Jan. 18, 2023.
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 |
Wed 10:30-11:30 am |
1004 MRL | abbamont@illinois.edu |
| Marc Klinger | Discussion TA | Wed 1-2 pm | 258 Loomis | marck3@illinois.edu |
| Dan Inafuku | Grader | Thu 2-3 pm | 137 Loomis | inafuku2@illinois.edu |
| Abhi Hegade | Grader | Fri 11 am - 12 pm | 258 Loomis | ah30@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.