Spring Semester, 2000
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| 1 |
Jan. 17- No Class
Jan. 19- Ohm's Law, EMF
Jan. 21- Faraday's Law
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| 2 |
Jan. 24- Inductance
Jan. 26- Energy in Fields
Jan. 28- Maxwell's Eqns
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| 3 |
Jan. 31- Maxwell's Eqns.
Feb. 2- Conservation Laws, Poynting Thm.
Feb. 4- Momentum, Stress Energy
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| 4 |
Feb. 7- Angular Momentum
Feb. 9- Angular Momentum
Feb. 11- 1-D waves, complex notation
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| 5 |
Feb. 14- Boundary Conditions, Polarization
Feb. 16- EM waves in vacuum
Feb. 18- propagation in linear media
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| 6 |
Feb. 21- Snell's law
Feb. 23- absorption and dispersion
Feb. 25- conducting surfaces
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Feb. 28- dispersion
Mar. 1- guided waves
Mar. 3- Exam 1
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Mar. 6- potential formulation
Mar. 8- retarded potentials
Mar. 10- Lienard Wiechert potentials
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| 9 |
Mar. 13- Spring Break
Mar. 15- Spring Break
Mar. 17- Spring Break
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| 10 |
Mar. 20- moving point charge
Mar. 22- moving point charge
Mar. 24- dipole radiation
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Mar. 27- magnetic dipole radiation
Mar. 29- arbitrary source
Mar. 31- Larmor formula
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| 12 |
Apr. 3- radiation reaction
Apr. 5- radiation reaction
Apr. 7- Exam 2
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| 13 |
Apr. 10- Special Relativity, velocity
addition
Apr. 12- time dilation, lorentz contraction
Apr. 14- Lorentz transformation, scalar
product
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| 14 |
Apr. 17- relativistic mechanics
Apr. 19- relativistic kinematics
Apr. 21- relativistic dynamics
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| 15 |
Apr. 24- relativistic EM, transf. of fields
Apr. 26- field tensor
Apr. 28- tensor notation and EM
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| 16 |
May 1- relativistic potentials
May 3-
May 5- Review
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| May 10- Final Exam 12:00 Noon
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