Electrodynamics B
PHY 5347,  Spring 2009
Prof. Alexander Volya

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Lectures: Tuesday and Thursday 9:30-10:45 am at HCB 317
Midterm and Final Exams see schedule
Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday 2:30 - 3:30 pm at 208 Keen, or by appointment.

Recommended Textbooks:  

• L.D. Landau and E.M. Lifshits, Electrodynamics of Continuous Media, 2nd edition (Course of
  Theoretical Physics, Vol. 8).
• J.D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics.
• M. Getzlaff, Fundamentals of Magnetism, (Springer, 2007).
• Melvin Schwartz, Principles of Electrodynamics
• L.D. Landau and E.M. Lifshits, The Classical Theory of
  Fields (Course of Theoretical Physics, vol. 2, 4th  edition),
  chapters I - IX. Part of prerequisite PHY 5346.
   

Grading:

• 30% Midterms

• 10% Class participation and quizzes

• 30% Final

• 30% homework (assigned weekly on Tuesday and due the following week Tuesday)

Program of the course

Macroscopic averaging of Maxwell equations

Electrostatics of conductors (review), Perfect conductor,
electrostatic equations and boundary conditions. Electrostatic energy and
forces. Capacitance and electrostatic induction. Electrostatic images. Ch. 1-5.

Electrostatics of dielectrics. Dielectric polarization, electric displacement (induction) vector, equations and boundary conditions. Dielectric constant and dielectric tensor. Electrostatic energy and forces. Piezoelectrics and ferroelectrics, second order phase transition. Ch. 6-8, 10, 13, 14, 17-19.

Magnetostatics (review). Magnetic induction, magnetic field and magnetization. Magnetic field of steady current, Biot-Savart law. Equations and boundary conditions. Energy and the forces in the magnetic field. Inductance. Ch. 29-31, 33, 34.

Magnetic media.  Paramagnetism, diamagnetism, ferromagnetism and antiferromagnetism. Ch. 39-41, 43, 44, 48.

Superconductivity. Magnetic and electric properties of superconductors, supercurrent. Microscopic structure of the superconducting state.^(*) Josephson effects.^(*) Ch. 53-55.

Quasistationary fields.   Equations and boundary conditions. Eddy currents and skin effect. Complex impedance. Quasistationary currents in circuits. Electromagnetic induction. Ch. 58-63.

Electromagnetic waves in media. Waves in dielectrics, displacement current. Dispersion of the dielectric function and magnetic permeability, analytical properties of succeptibilities. Reflection and refraction, Fresnel formulae. Surface impedance of metals. Waveguides and resonating cavities. Waves in crystals. Optical activity, Faraday effect. Spatial dispersion. Nonlinear media. Scattering of waves. Ch. 75, 77-80, 82-84, 86, 87, 90, 91, 97-99, 101, 103-105, 107, 117.

Passage of fast particles through matter. Ionization losses, stopping power. Cherenkov and transition radiation. Ch. 113-116.
 

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