Course calendar:
Sections listed are in J. D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics, 3rd Ed.
| Day |
Topic(s) | Secs. (presenter) | Problem Sets |
| Wed 23 Jan | Harmonic sources and their fields | 9.1 (Michael) | PS 1, Solns |
| Fri 25 Jan | Electric dipole radiation Magnetic dipole radiation |
9.2 (Michael) 9.3 (Shirley) |
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| Mon 28 Jan | Electric quadrupole radiation Linear center-fed antenna |
9.3 (Shirley) 9.4 (Alex) |
PS 2, Solns |
| Wed 30 Jan | Scalar wave
equation Multipole expansion of E, H |
9.6 (Vince) 9.7 (Michael) |
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| Mon 4 Feb | Multipole expansion (continued) Energy and angular momentum |
9.7 (Michael) 9.8 (Kristen) |
PS 3, Solns |
| Wed 6 Feb | Energy and angular momentum (continued) Angular distribution of radiation |
9.8 (Kristen) 9.9 (Shirley) |
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| Mon 11 Feb | Sources of multipole radiation Scattering at long wavelength |
9.10 (Alex) 10.1 (Michael) |
PS 4, Solns |
| Wed 13 Feb | Pert theory, reason for blue sky Scattering of EM waves from a sphere |
10.2 (Vince) 10.4 (Kristen) |
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| Mon 18 Feb | Scattering from a sphere (continued) Scalar diffraction theory |
10.4 (Kristen) 10.5 (Shirley) |
PS 5, Solns |
| Wed 20 Feb | Vector diffraction theory Diffraction by circular aperture |
10.7 (Michael) 10.8 (Alex) |
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| Mon 25 Feb | Circular aperture (continued) Relativistic kinematics |
10.8 (Alex) 11.1 (Michael) |
PS 6, Solns |
| Wed 27 Feb | Minkowski spacetime | 11.2–3 (Michael) | |
| Mon 4 Mar | Lorentz and Poincaré groups | 11.4–7 (Michael) | |
| Wed 6 Mar | Thomas precession | 11.8 (Vince) | |
| SPRING BREAK | |||
| Mon 18 Mar | Covariance of electrodynamics | 11.9 (Kristen) | Midterm, Solns |
| Wed 20 Mar | Relativistic EOM for spin Particle Lagrangian, Hamiltonian (dt) |
11.11 (Alex) 12.1 (Michael) |
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| Mon 25 Mar | Particle Lagrangian, Hamiltonian (dσ) Largrangian for the EM field |
12.1, 12.7 (Michael) | |
| Wed 27 Mar | Noether's theorem for fields Canonical Stress tensor |
12.10, P&S 2.2 (Michael) | |
| Mon 1 Apr | Symmetric stress tensor; conservation laws Motion in a uniform, static B |
12.10 (Michael) 12.2 (Michael) |
PS 7, Solns |
| Wed 3 Apr | Motion in crossed E, B fields Adiabatic inv of flux in orbit |
12.3 (Shirley) 12.5 (Vince) |
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| Mon 8 Apr | Adiabatic inv of flux in orbit Darwin Lagrangian Invariant Green functions |
12.5 (Vince) 12.6 (Kristen) 12.11 (Michael) |
PS 8, Solns |
| Wed 10 Apr | In, out, and radiation fields Liénard-Wiechert potentials, fields |
14.1 (Shirley) | |
| Mon 15 Apr | Larmor's formula, rel generalization Angular distribution of radiation |
14.2 (Alex) 14.3 (Vince) |
PS 9, Solns |
| Wed 17 Apr | Radiation for ultrarelativistic motion Distribution in frequency and angle |
14.4 (Michael) 14.5 (Kristen) |
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| Mon 22 Apr | Instantaneously circular motion |
14.6 (Shirley) | |
| Wed 24 Apr | Classical electron theory, overview | 16.1 (Alex) | |
| Mon 29 Apr | Radiation reaction from energy cons Runaways, preacceleration |
16.2 (Michael) | |
| Wed 1 May | Regularization, complete EOM, Larmor and Schott terms Abraham-Lorentz evaluation of Frad Thomson scattering of radiation |
Coleman
Secs. IV–V (Michael) 16.3 (Vince) 14.8 (Kristen) |
Final Exam, Solns |