Physics 214
Winter 2011
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:
3:00-4:30 Mondays
And by appointment as 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.

Electromagnetic Spectrum.

Waveguides

Wikipedia on the MIT Rad Lab \

Introductory Notes on Special Relativity.

Lecture on Special Relativity.

Lecture on Vector Spherical Harmonics.

Haber Lecture Notes on Vector Spherical Harmonics.

Lecture on Scattering Theory.

Lecture on Energy Loss.

Landau and Lifschitz on Ionization.

Lecture on Radiation from Moving Charges.

Homework Assignments