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Phone: 743-3543
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This course will cover chapters 9 through 17 in Classical Electrodynamics, 2nd edition, by J. D. Jackson, John Wiley & Sons publishers. I will also take material from Panovsky and Phillips; Instabilities in Space and Laboratory Plasmas, by Melrose; and Gravitation, by Misner Thorne and Wheeler. There will be two hour exams: one at the end of chapter 12 on Mar. 14, and one at the end of the course on May. 04. The final will be held 2:00-5:00 pm on Wednesday, May 13, and will be comprehensive. No calculators or notes will be permitted during any examination; paper will be provided, so you only need to bring with you to each exam a pencil and an eraser. Each exam will focus on testing your problem solving skills.
Grades will be computed separately 6122 and 6322. For 6322 grades will be based 10% on hour exams, 90% on the final exam. For 6122, grades will be based 75% on homework, 25% on class participation.
Homework will be assigned each week. Homework will be collected every Monday . Each
problem will be graded on a scale of 0 to 10. A penalty of 15 points will be assessed for
homework turned in late. Under normal circumstances, students will not be permitted more than 2
late homework papers. Late homework must be turned in directly to me, not buried in a
subsequent submission stack. The homework that is due the day before any hour test will not be
accepted late under any circumstances. The homework assignments are listed below:
| Due Date | Chapters | Problems (Not Questions unless otherwise noted) | |||||||
| Feb. 02 | 09 | 09- | 01 | 02 | 03 | 05 | 06 | ||
| Feb. 09 | 09 | 12 | 16 | 17 | 20 | PP 13.5 | P6 | P7 | |
| Feb. 16 | 10 | 10- | 01 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 07 | 08 | |
| Feb. 23 | 11,12 | 02 | 03 | 06; | 12- | 05 | 03 | 10 | |
| Mar. 02 | 11 | 11- | 14 | 16 | 20 | 21 | |||
| Mar. 09 | 11, 12 | 11- | 18; | 12- | 01 | 04 | 06 | P5 | P6 |
| Mar. 23 | 12 | 12- | 07 | 08 | 09 | 16 | |||
| Mar. 30 | 13 | 13- | 01 | 02 | 04 | 05 | |||
| Apr. 06 | 13, 14 | 13- | 06; | 14- | 04 | 05 | 16 | 17 | |
| Apr. 13 | 15 | 15- | 01 | 02 | 07 | 09 | 11 | ||
| Apr. 20 | 16 | 16- | 01 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 08 | ||
| Apr. 27 | 16, 17 | 16- | 10 | 13; | 17- | 01- | 02 | PP 14.9 | |
| May 04 | 17 | 17- | 04 | 05 | 07 | 08 | P6 | ||
Notes:
PP stands for Panovsky and Phillips.
PP 13.5 Find the fields and cross section for scattering from a conducting cylinder in the limit ka<<1 if the incoming wave is polarized so that E is along z, parallel to the axis of the cylinder.
HW 2, P6 Consider a rectangular slit of width a, length b. Using the vector Kirchoff approximation, compute the diffreaction patterns for Ei perpendicular to the slit, Ei parallel to the slit.
HW 2, P7 Redo problem 6 using appropriate vector Dirichlet Green functions.
HW 6, P5 Starting from
derive 
.
HW 6, P6 If we construct the EM stress-energy tensor as follows
(a) find the components
(b) show that
PP 14.9 Two equal positive charges q are describing circles on the opposite ends of s diameter 2a, with an angular velocity .
(a) state the charge density
(b) find the Fourier components of the current
(c) the quadrupole moment Fourier component
(d) the radiation pattern if a << c.
HW 13, P6 A particle is said to be in "hyperbolic" motion if it is subject to a constant force
. Then the position is given by 
.
Question: Does a particle in hyperbolic motion radiate?
See Fulton and Rohrlich, Annals of Physics, 9, 489, 1960 and Ch. 8 of R. Peierls, Suprises in Theoretical Physics, 1979
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