P506        Fall 2004        General Information

last modified on April 26

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Final score table posted. Check score table for errors. Grades will be submitted tomorrow. 

 

Final Solution 

 

Exams and leftovers can be picked up outside my office (4223 Randall).


Syllabus                                      Homework assignments and solutions, scores, course notes


Textbook:

J. D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics, 3rd ed., Wiley, ISBN 0-471-30932-X
(Introductory reading for students who did not have an advancd undergraduate EM course: D. J. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics)

Errata

Instructor

Georg Raithel

E-mail: graithel@umich.edu
Telephone: (734) 647 9031
Office:   4223 Randall Laboratory  (new part of the building)
Hours: Mondays
4PM-6PM

Grader

Meng Cui
E-mail: mcui@umich.edu

Office in EECS: 1113, Tel. (734) 764-9578 (Grader will be in this office mostly)
Office in Randall: 1485A, Tel. (734) 647-5465

Hours: call 

Lecture time and location:

Tuesday and Thursday 2:30PM-4PM in 1505 CCL (in Geology; see map).

Course description of Physics 505 and 506:

This two-term course covers the theoretical foundations of classical electrodynamics. The first part, Physics 505, proceeds in the following  order: Electrostatics, solution methods for the Laplace and Poisson equations, time-independent magnetic phenomena, Maxwell equations, time-dependent electromagnetic fields, free electromagnetic fields, and fields in waveguides. The second part, Physics 506, covers the description of radiating systems, scattering and diffraction of electromagnetic waves, the covariant formalism of electrodynamics, the radiation of moving charges, radiation in collision processes, and radiation damping.

Homework

Homework problems will be assigned at most once per week, and will typically be due one week from when they are assigned. The homework will be collected, and  it will be graded. The homework will contribute 35 percent towards the final course grade.

Reading assignments complementing the material covered in class will be part of the homework.

Late homework will, in general, not be accepted. Your solutions must be written neatly on stapled paper. Sample solutions will be provided after the due date has passed.

Exams

There will be one midterm and a final exam.

 

Midterm: March 4, 1:30PM-5:00PM

Review session for Midterm: March 1, 7PM

 

Final:

Date&Time: TBD

 

Review Date&Time: TBD

 

Additional information: Allowed textbooks are the course textbook and one other textbook of your choice. Course notes, review notes and homework solutions from this class will be allowed. Other problem solution collections or ``manuals" of any kind are not allowed. 

Grading

Your course grade will be based on the total number of points earned in the midterm exams, the final exam, and the homeworks. The relative weighting  is determined as follows:

One Midterm Exam    weight    30%
Final Exam
                 weight    35%
Homework                 weight    35%


Syllabus

 

Week of 

 Chapter   in  Textbook

General Topic

1/5

8

Waveguides and cavities

1/12

8

Waveguides and cavities

1/19

9

Radiation fields

1/26

9

Radiation fields

2/2

10

Scattering and Diffraction

2/9

10/11

Scattering and Diffraction; Special Relativity

2/16

11

Special Relativity

2/23

Break

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3/1

12

Relativistic motion of particles in  fields

3/8

12

Relativistic motion of particles in  fields

3/15

14

Radiation of moving charges

3/22

14

Radiation of moving charges

3/29

13

Collisions 

4/5

13/15

Collisions, Bremsstrahlung

4/12 - 4/20

15

Bremsstrahlung