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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Week | Date | Topic | Reading (Griffiths Sections) | Homework | Discussion |
1 | Wednesday 1/22/2025 | Introduction, Conservation Laws, Poynting's Theorem | 8.1.1, 8.1.2 | Homework #1 (pdf) | No discussion |
Friday 1/24/2025 | Conservation laws, cont. | 8.2.1, 8.2.2 | |||
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2 | Monday 1/27/2025 | Maxwell Stress Tensor, cont. | 8.2.2 continued | Homework #2 (pdf) | |
Wednesday 1/29/2025 | Conservation of Momentum | 8.2.3 | |||
Friday 1/31/2025 | Angular Momentum in E&M | 8.2.4 | |||
3 | Monday 2/3/2025 | Classical Wave Equation | 9.1.1-9.1.4 (selected topics) | Homework #3 (pdf) | |
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 | |||
4 | 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 | |
Wednesday 2/12/2025 | EM Waves in Linear Media/Reflection and Transmission at an Interface (Normal) | 9.3.1,9.3.2 | |||
Friday 2/14/2025 | Reflection and Transmission at an Interface (Oblique) | 9.3.2,9.3.3 | |||
5 | Monday 2/17/2025 | Fresnel Formulas, EM Waves in Conductors | 9.4.1 | Due Friday, Feb 28 @ midnight | |
Wednesday 2/19/2025 | EM waves in Conductors, Absorption | 9.4.2 | |||
Friday | Optical Dispersion | 9.4.3 | |||
6 | Monday 2/24/2025 | Waveguides |
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Wednesday 2/26/2025 | Rectangular waveguides | 9.5.2 | |||
Friday 2/28/2025 | Resonant Cavities | 9.5.3, Problem 9.38 | |||
7 | Monday 3/3/2025 | No class |
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Wednesday 3/5/2025 | Hour Exam I Chapters 8-9 (inclusive) Solutions | ||||
Friday 3/7/2025 | Lecture 17 | 10.1.1, 10.1.2 | |||
8 | Monday 3/10/2025 | Gauge Transformations | 10.1.2 cont., 10.1.3 | Due Friday, Mar 28 @ midnight Solutions | |
Wednesday 3/12/2025 | Lecture 19 | 10.2.1, 10.2.2 | |||
Friday 3/14/2025 | Liénard-Wiechert Potentials | 10.3.1 | |||
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 Solutions | |
Wednesday 3/26/2025 | Fields from a Moving Point Charge | 10.3.2 | |||
Friday 3/28/2025 | Electric Dipole Radiation | 11.1.1, 11.1.2 | |||
11 | Monday 3/31/2025 | Magnetic Dipole Radiation, Antennas | 11.1.2 cont., 11.1.3 |
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Wednesday 4/2/2025 | Lecture 25 Radiation from Higher Order Multipoles | 11.1.4 | |||
Friday 4/4/2025 | Lecture 26 Larmor Formula(online due to Engineering Open House) | 11.2.1, 11.2.2 | |||
12 | Monday 4/7/2025 | Lecture 27 Radiation Reaction, Abraham-Lorentz Formula | 11.2.2 cont., 11.2.3 | Homework #10 (pdf) Due Friday, Apr 18 @ midnight Solutions | Discussion 10 Solutions |
Wednesday 4/9/2025 | No lecture |
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Friday 4/11/2025 | Hour Exam II Chapters 10-11.2.1 (inclusive) | ||||
13 | Monday 4/14/2025 | Lecture 28 Review of Special Relativity | 12.1.1, 12.1.2 | Homework #11 (pdf) Due Friday, Apr 25 @ midnight | Discussion 11 Solutions |
Wednesday 4/16/2025 | Lecture 29 Lorentz Transformations | 12.1.3, 12.1.4 | |||
Friday 4/18/2025 | Lecture 30 Relativistic Dynamics | 12.2.1, 12.2.2 | |||
14 | Monday 4/21/2025 | Lecture 31 Hidden Momentum | 12.2.3, 12.2.4 | Homework #12 (pdf) Due Friday, May 1@ midnight
| Discussion 12 Solutions |
Wednesday 4/23/2025 | Lecture 32 Magnetism as a Relativistic Phenomenon | 12.3.1, 12.3.2 | |||
Friday 4/25/2025 | Lecture 33 Lorentz Transformation of E and B | 12.3.3, 12.3.4 | |||
15 | Monday 4/28/2025 | Lecture 34 Electromagnetic Field Tensor | 12.3.4, 12.3.5 |
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Wednesday 4/30/2025 | Lecture 35 Potentials in Covariant Form | 12.3.4, 12.3.5 | |||
Friday 5/2/2025 | Research Talk Prof. Angela Kou - Experimental quantum information |
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16 | 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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