| Week | Date | Lecture | Topics covered in class |
Reading Material in Griffiths |
| 1 | Jan.5 |
Lecture 1
| Course administrivia and Review of electrostatics
| Chapters 1-3 |
| | Jan.7 |
Lecture 2
| Review of Electrostatics and Magnetostatics with comparisons
| Chapters 3-6 |
| | Jan.10 |
Lecture 3
| Review of Electrostatics, magnetostatics and Dynamics
| Chapters 6-7 |
| | Jan.12 | Lecture 4
| Maxwell's Equations, end of Review
| Chapter 7 |
| | Jan.14 |
Lecture 5
| Maxwell's Equations, Potential formulation of Max's Eqns, Magnetic
Monopoles | 7.3, 10.1 |
| | Jan.17 |
Lecture 6
| Electromagnetic Induction, levitation demos,
Energy and Momentum in electromagnetic fields | 7.2, 8.1, 8.2 |
| | Jan.19 |
Lecture 7
| Energy and Momentum in electromagnetic fields, Feynman's Paradox,
Radiation Pressure | 8.1, 8.2 |
| | Jan.21 |
Lecture 8
| Maxwell's electromagnetic stress tensor | 8.2 |
| | Jan.24 |
Lecture 9
| Special Relativity, 4-vectors, E&M and relativity | 12.1, 12.2 |
| | Jan.26 |
Lecture 10
| 4-vectors, E&M field tensor, Maxwell's eqns in 4-vector notation | 12.2,
10.1.3, 12.3 |
| | Jan.28 |
Lecture 11
| EM waves, plane waves in vacuum | 9.1 |
| | Jan.31 |
Lecture 12
| EM waves, Plane Waves, Complex notation, Polarization | 9.1, 9.2 |
| | Feb.2 |
Lecture 13 |
EM waves in linear media, Polarization, Reflection/Transmission | 9.1, 9.3 |
| | Feb.4 |
Lecture 14
| Reflection/Transmission, Snell's Law, and laws of geometric optics, DEMO: polarization and
birefringence | 9.3 |
| | Feb.7 | Midterm Exam #1 | | |
| | Feb.9 |
Lecture 15 | Reflection/Transmission, Snell's Law, and laws of geometric
optics, Fresnel's Equations
DEMO: Microwaves/polarization | 9.3 |
| | Feb.11 |
Lecture 16 |
Fresnel's Eqns, Brewster's Angle, Absorption | 9.3.3, 9.4.1 |
| | Feb.21 |
Lecture 17 |
Absorption/Attenuation, Dispersion, Reflection on conductor | 9.4.1, 9.4.2, 9.4.3 |
| | Feb.23 |
Lecture 18 | Waves in Waveguides | 9.5.1 |
| | Feb.25 |
Lecture 19 | Waves in Rectangular Waveguides, Coaxial Waveguides,
modes, cutoff frequencies | 9.5.2, 9.5.3 |
| | Feb.28 |
Lecture 20 | Waves in Resonant Cavities, recap of waveguides
| 9.5 + |
| | March 2 |
Lecture 21 | Parallel Plane transmission lines, coax transmission lines
| |
| | March 4 |
Lecture 22 | Real life transmission lines, Impedance, reflection, impedance
matching | |
| | March 7 |
Lecture 23 | Potential Theory, Gauge Transformations |
10.1 |
| | March 9 |
Lecture 24 | Retarded Potentials, Jefimenko's Eqns |
10.2 |
| | March 11 |
Lecture 25 | Retarded Position, Lienard-Wiechert Potentials |
10.3 |
| | March 14 |
Lecture 26 | Radiation by accelerating charges, Larmour formula,
Synchrotron radiation | 10.3, 11.1 |
| | March 16 |
Lecture 27 | Bremsstrahlung, Electric Dipole radiation, | 11.1 |
| | March 18 |
Lecture 28 | Magnetic Dipole radiation, | 11.1 |
| | March 22 |
Lecture 29 | Summary and Recap Dipole radiation, | 11.1 |
| | March 24 | Midterm Exam 2 | |
| | March 30 |
Lecture 30 | Radiation from Arbitrary Source | 11.1.4 |
| | April 1 |
Lecture 31 | Antennas | - |
| | April 4 |
Lecture 32 | Radiation by Point Charge | 11.2 |
| | April 6 |
Lecture 33 | Just for Fun: Atmospheric Optics: Rainbows, Sundogs, Halos, Glories | - |
| | April 8 |
Lecture 34 | Last Class: Review on the board | review |
