Physics 214
Fall 2007
Graduate Electricity and Magnetism
University of California at Santa Cruz
T Th 10:00 AM to 11:45pm, ISB 231
 
TEXT: J.D. Jackson, `Classical Electrodynamics'
Instructor: Michael Dine
Office: 323 ISB
Phone: (831) 459-3033
Email: dine@scipp.ucsc.edu
 
Office Hours:
10:00 - 12:00 Monday
And by appointment if necessary
 
 
This is the second quarter of the electricity and magnetism sequence. Topics covered include waveguides, including attenuation, radiation, relativistic invariance of electrodynamics, scattering, energy loss in materials, and electrodynamics of relativistic charged particles.

Syllabus

Handout on vector analysis.

Handout on Relativity and Four Vectors.

Handout on History of Special Relativity.

Handout on Green's Function for the Wave Equation.

Handout on the Multipole Expansion for Radiation and Vector Spherical Harmonics.

Handout on Energy Loss and Cerenkov Radiation.

Handout on Lienard-Weichart potentials.

Homework Assignments