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Current / Most Recent Semester: |
Spring 2014/15 |
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Instructor(s): |
SHENG Ping |
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Teaching Pattern: |
duration of course: about 13 weeks
lecture hour(s) per week: 3
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No. of Credit(s): |
3 |
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Content: |
Review of Maxwell's Equations
Conservation Laws
Electromagnetic Waves
Reflection and Transmission of EM
Waves and Fresnel's Equations
EM Waves in Conductors
Frequency Dependence of Dielectric Constants
Metallic Wave Guides
The Potential Formulation of Maxwell's Equations
Retarded Potentials
Lienard-Wiechert Potentials of a Moving Point Charge
The Fields of a Moving Point Charge
Dipole Radiation
Radiation from an Arbitrary Source
Radiation from an Accelerating Point Charges
Radiation Reaction (also called Radiation Damping)
The Special Theory of Relativity and Lorentz Transformations
Four-vectors, Ordinary velocities and Four-velocity
Relativistic Kinematics and Mechanics
Magnetism as a Relativistic Phenomenon and
Lorentz Transformation of Fields
Transformation of the sources of fields (charge and current
density) and Electrodynamics in Tensor Notation
Notes on the derivation of the general formula for the total
power radiated
Tutorial notes on covariance of Maxwell's equations
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Remarks: |
Prerequisite: PHYS 3033 OR PHYS 3053 |