Outline of topics covered in the course:

• Quick Review of Electrostatics and Magnetostatics
• Electromagnetic Induction
• Maxwell's Equations
• Electromagnetic Waves
• Absorption and Dispersion
• Waves in Waveguides
• Radiation of Electromagnetic Waves
• Potentials, Fields and Gauge Transformations
• Electrodynamics and Relativity

You will find we will more or less cover all the material in Griffiths, Chapters 7-12, plus some additional outside material for applications.

Grading:	40% Final Exam My Cheatsheet, p1 My Cheatsheet, p2
	20% Assignments (11 will be assigned over the term, your best 10 will count)
	15% Midterm Exam 1 -- Monday, February 7 -- My Cheatsheet
	15% Midterm Exam 2 -- Wednesday, March 23 -- My Cheatsheet, p1 My Cheatsheet, p2
	10% Seminar Presentation and Writeup (5% for Seminar Presentation, 5% for Writeup)

There is no tolerance for late assignments without medical or tragic reason, as solutions will be usually be posted the day after due date.

You are encouraged to seek help from each other in doing the homework, discussing the problems in a study group is a great way to learn, but I expect each student to write up (and understand!) his/her own solutions handed in for grading.

Lecture Notes

List of Lectures & Topics for each Lecture

This will be updated lecture by lecture as term proceeds. You should be able to look up topics for each lecture the evening (sometimes late, but I post them as soon as they are done) preceeding it.

Student Presentations

The student seminar is a chance for you to investigate and share with your classmates a topic of your choice. Check out My List of Suggested Topics if you are looking for ideas. You may select any electromagnetism topic of your choice, and there are many cool/interesting ones that aren't on my suggestion list, provided the professor (that's me) agrees that your choice is appropriate. The oral report will be a short 8-10-minute seminar-type presentation to the class, followed by 3-4 minutes of discussion and questions. All students will participate in evaluations (marks) for all presentations (except your own). The writeup will be a short 3-6 page report/write-up based on your presentation. The oral presentations will be either 1 or 2 per class, during the last 15 or 25 minutes of each class beginning the February 21, just after spring break. A statement of your topic choice is due with your second assignment. The report is due Monday April 11/2005.

List of Student Presentations, Topics and Dates

• Falstad has some neat electrodynamics applets See the antenna, cavity modes and waveguides modes applets.
• Some cool applets on transmission lines, antennas and E&M Waves from Amanogawa
• Great animations of TE modes and TM modes in a rectangular waveguide.
• Wave propagation applets from Molecular Expressions.
• Travelling waves and an oscillating dipole
• Examine relations between electric field, magnetic field and wave vector when an electromagnetic wave propagates through space.
• Polarization of Plane Waves

FINAL EXAM

Format of final exam: 6 questions, all equal weight (but not all equally challenging). You do any 5 of them. If you want to do all 6, I will mark all and the best 5 will count.

One question will either be from a worked example in the text, or from an assigned homework problem.

Some cool E&M websites:

• Theatre of Electricity

Assignments

Problem Sets:

1 due Jan.14, 2 due Jan.21, 3 due Jan.31, 4 due Feb.7, 5 due Feb.21, 6 due Feb.28, 7 due Mar.7, 8 due Mar.14, 9 due Mar.21, 10 due Mar.30, 11 due Apr.8

Solutions: Problem sets and solutions have been removed

Lighter E&M stuff

• Songs about Electricity and Magnetism (for your amusement and enjoyment!!)
• Maxwell's Equations: The CD (Note: songs are sung in Gaussian, not MKS units!!!)