PHYS 100C 2009 Lecture Notes

PHYS 100C 2009 Lecture Notes

- use as a "rough" preview of horrors to come*

(*may be modified for 2010 version of the class!).

• Week #1: Wave Equations, Electromagnetic Waves in Vacuum (9.1-9.2)

Review these Formulas :: Lecture 1 (PDF). Lecture 2 (PDF)

• Week #2: Electromagnetic Waves in Matter, Reflection and Transmission. Adsorption and Dispersion (9.3-9.4)

Lecture 3 (PDF). Lecture 4 (PDF).

• Week #3: Waveguides and Antenna (9.5). Lecture 5 (PDF). Lecture 6 (PDF).

• Week #4: Potential formulation of Maxwell's equations and retarded potentials (10.1-10.2) Lecture 7 (PDF). Lecture 8 (PDF).

• Week #5: Lienard-Wiechert potentials and fields of a moving point charge (10.3). Lecture 9 (PDF). Lecture 10 (PDF).

• Week #6: Radiation (11). Lecture 11 (PDF). Lecture 12 (PDF).

• Week #7: Lecture 13: Special Guest Lecturer, Lord Sunil K. Sinha. (No Notes), Midterm.

• Week #8: Special theory of relativity (12.1-12.2). Lecture 14 (PDF). Lecture 15 (PDF).

• Week #9: Special theory of relativity (12.1-12.2). Lecture 16 (PDF).

• Week #10: Relativistic Electrodynamics (12.2-12.3). Lecture 17 (PDF).