PHYS 505 Fall 2023
PHYS 505 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
| Date | Lectures | Text | Homework |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 8/22/2023 |
Maxwell's equations. Potentials and Gauge transformations. Galilean transformations. | 6.1-6.3 | |
| Thursday 8/24/2023 |
Special Relativity. | 11 | |
| Tuesday 8/29/2023 |
Lorentz covariance of electrodynamics | 11 | HW 0 |
| Thursday 8/31/2023 |
Green function for the wave operator and Jefimenko's equations | 6.4-6.5; see also 12.11 |
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| Tuesday 9/5/2023 |
Causality, fields of general point sources | 14.1 | |
| Thursday 9/7/2023 |
Radiation fields, Larmor formula | HW 1 | |
| Tuesday 9/12/2023 |
Nonrelativistic scattering from point charges, frequency distributions | 14.2,14.3 | |
| Thursday 9/14/2023 |
Relativistic effects in radiation from a point source | 14.2,14.3 | |
| Tuesday 9/19/2023 |
Angular distributions, continuation of previous notes | 14.3-14.5 | |
| Thursday 9/21/2023 |
Synchrotron Radiation | 14.6 | HW 2 |
| Tuesday 9/25/2023 |
continuation of previous, light sources | ||
| Thursday 9/27/2023 |
Collisions & energy loss | 13.1 | HW 3 |
| Tuesday 10/3/2023 |
Modifications from quantum mechanics, density effects in energy loss | 13.2-13.3 | |
| Thursday 10/5/2023 |
Cherenkov radiation | 13.4 | |
| Tuesday 10/10/2023 |
Multipole radiation, simple antennas | 9 | |
| Thursday 10/12/2023 |
continuation of previous | HW 4 | |
| Tuesday 10/17/2023 |
Magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole radiation | supplementary reading: 9.6-9.10 |
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| Thursday 10/19/2023 |
continuation of previous, half and full wave antennas (in next set of notes) | ||
| Tuesday 10/24/2023 |
Waveguides | 8.2 | HW 5 |
| Thursday 10/26/2023 |
continuation of previous | ||
| Tuesday 10/31/2023 |
Energy loss in waveguides | 8.1,8.3 | HW 6 |
| Thursday 11/2/2023 |
continuation of previous | ||
| Tuesday 11/7/2023 |
Resonators | 8.7,8.8 | |
| Thursday 11/9/2023 |
continuation of previous | ||
| Tuesday 11/14/2023 |
Contour integration | ||
| Thursday 11/16/2023 |
continuation of previous | ||
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Tuesday |
Dispersive media | 7.5,7.6 | HW 7 |
| Thursday 11/30/2023 |
Causality, Analyticity, & Kramers-Kronig | 7.11 |