Physics 505 - Classical Electromagnetism

Fall 2021

Meets Tuesday & Thursday 11-12:20, 276 Loomis

Classes will be available synchronously on zoom (let me know if you plan to zoom in)

and will be recorded, see below for zoom information. 

 

Instructor: Tom Faulkner

Email: tomf at illinois dot edu

Office hours: Tuesday 2pm (on Zoom)

Graders:  Simon Lin (shanlin3 at illinois dot edu) and Pin-Chun Pai (pcpai2 at illinois dot edu)

 

Schedule and zoom/mediaspace info

Syllabus 

Course Information:

 

Welcome to graduate electromagnetism. This course will cover a large fraction of Jackson's

Classical Electrodynamics. Please see the schedule page for a rough course outline. There will

be regular (total of 10) homework posted Wednesday and due in a week. There will be a final exam.

Final exam:

Takehome, due Wed Dec 15 at 11am. Posted Monday Dec 13 11am.

Exam has been posted. See course schedule above.

The breakdown of the final score will be:

 

HW: 70%

Exam: 30%

 

Letter grades will be assigned based on this score.