PHYS 436 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
All problems are from the 4th edition of Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics. Topics subject to change depending on lecture speed.
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Topic |
Reading (Griffiths Sections) |
Homework |
Discussion |
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Wednesday 1/22/2025 |
Introduction, Conservation Laws, Poynting's Theorem |
8.1.1, 8.1.2 |
Homework #1 (pdf) |
No discussion |
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Friday 1/24/2025 |
Conservation laws, cont. |
8.2.1, 8.2.2 |
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Monday 1/27/2025 |
Maxwell Stress Tensor, cont. |
8.2.2 continued |
Homework #2 (pdf) |
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Wednesday 1/29/2025 |
Conservation of Momentum |
8.2.3 |
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Friday 1/31/2025 |
Angular Momentum in E&M |
8.2.4 |
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Monday 2/3/2025 |
Classical Wave Equation |
9.1.1-9.1.4 (selected topics) |
Homework #3 (pdf) |
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Wednesday 2/5/2025 |
No lecture (Prof. Kou traveling) |
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Friday 2/7/2025 |
Electromagnetic waves |
9.2.1, 9.2.2 |
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Monday 2/10/2025 |
Energy and Momentum of EM Waves/EM Waves in Linear Media |
9.2.3,9.3.1 |
Due Friday, Feb 21 @ midnight |
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Wednesday 2/12/2025 |
EM Waves in Linear Media/Reflection and Transmission at an Interface (Normal) |
9.3.1,9.3.2 |
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Friday 2/14/2025 |
Reflection and Transmission at an Interface (Oblique) |
9.3.2,9.3.3 |
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Monday 2/17/2025 |
Fresnel Formulas, EM Waves in Conductors |
9.4.1 |
Due Friday, Feb 28 @ midnight |
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Wednesday 2/19/2025 |
EM waves in Conductors, Absorption |
9.4.2 |
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Friday |
Optical Dispersion |
9.4.3 |
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Monday 2/24/2025 |
Waveguides |
9.5.1 |
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Wednesday 2/26/2025 |
Rectangular waveguides |
9.5.2 |
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Friday 2/28/2025 |
Resonant Cavities |
9.5.3, Problem 9.38 |
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Monday 3/3/2025 |
No class |
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Due Friday, Mar 14 @ midnight |
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Wednesday 3/5/2025 |
Hour Exam I Chapters 8-9 (inclusive) Solutions |
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Friday 3/7/2025 |
Lecture 17 |
10.1.1, 10.1.2 |
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Monday 3/10/2025 |
Gauge Transformations |
10.1.2 cont., 10.1.3 |
Due Friday, Mar 28 @ midnight |
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Wednesday 3/12/2025 |
Lecture 19 |
10.2.1, 10.2.2 |
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Friday 3/14/2025 |
Liénard-Wiechert Potentials |
10.3.1 |
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9 |
Monday 3/17/2025 |
No Lecture (Spring Break) |
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Wednesday 3/19/2025 |
No Lecture (Spring Break) |
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Friday 3/21/2025 |
No Lecture (Spring Break) |
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10 |
Monday 3/24/2025 |
Liénard-Wiechert Potentials, cont. |
10.3.1 continued |
Due Friday, Apr 4 @ midnight |
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Wednesday 3/26/2025 |
Fields from a Moving Point Charge |
10.3.2 |
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Friday 3/28/2025 |
Electric Dipole Radiation |
11.1.1, 11.1.2 |
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11 |
Monday 3/31/2025 |
Electric Dipole Radiation (cont) |
11.1.2 cont |
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Wednesday 4/2/2025 |
Magnetic dipole radiation |
11.1.3 |
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Friday 4/4/2025 |
Radiation from an arbitrary source (recorded lecture due to Engineering open house) |
11.1.4 |
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Monday 4/7/2025 |
Larmor Formula |
11.2.1 |
Due Friday, Apr 18 @ midnight Solutions |
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Wednesday 4/9/2025 |
No lecture |
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Friday 4/11/2025 |
Hour Exam II Chapters 10-11.2.1 (inclusive) |
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13 |
Monday 4/14/2025 |
Review of Special Relativity |
12.1.1, 12.1.2 |
Due Friday, Apr 25 @ midnight |
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Wednesday 4/16/2025 |
Lorentz Transformations | 12.1.3, 12.1.4 | |||
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Friday 4/18/2025 |
Relativistic Dynamics |
12.2.1, 12.2.2 |
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14 |
Monday 4/21/2025 |
Hidden Momentum |
12.2.3, 12.2.4 |
Homework #11 (pdf) Due Friday, May 1@ midnight
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Solutions |
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Wednesday 4/23/2025 |
Lecture 32 Magnetism as a Relativistic Phenomenon |
12.3.1, 12.3.2 |
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Friday 4/25/2025 |
Lecture 33 Lorentz Transformation of E and B |
12.3.3, 12.3.4 |
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15 |
Monday 4/28/2025 |
Lecture 34 Electromagnetic Field Tensor |
12.3.4, 12.3.5 |
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Discussion 13 Solutions |
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Wednesday 4/30/2025 |
Lecture 35 Potentials in Covariant Form |
12.3.4, 12.3.5 |
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Friday 5/2/2025 |
Research Talk Prof. Angela Kou - Experimental quantum information |
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Monday |
Research Talk Prof. Pengjie Wang - Experimental condensed matter |
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Discussion 14 Solutions |
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Wednesday 5/7/2025 |
Research Talk Prof. Charles Gammie - Theoretical/Computational astrophysics |
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Final Exam
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