Course Webpage for PHYS 520A at SIU--Carbondale

Course Webpage for
PHYS 520A: Electromagnetic Theory (2013 Fall)
Department of Physics, Southern Illinois University--Carbondale
Last updated: Dec 5, 2013. (This page is no more maintained.)

General information:
- Instructor: K. V. Shajesh (Office: Neckers 491, Tel.: 453-5212)
- Class meetings: MTR 4:00-4:50 PM, in Neckers 410.
- Office hours: WF 3:00-6:00 PM, or by appointment.
- Syllabus for the course. The Provost Office has put together a Syllabus Attachment to assist the student. It lists and provides web links for many elements that are important for a student.
Grades will be posted on SIU Online (password protected).
Lecture notes:
1. Set 01: (No notes) [Aug 19] (Discussed Maxwell's equations. Loosely based on the introductory chapter of Jackson, 3rd edition.)
2. Set 02: [Aug 20, 22, 26] (Review of vector calculus, delta functions, and vector operators in curvilinear coordinates.)
3. Set 03: [Aug 27] (Maxwell's equations, units, charge conservation, scalar and vector potentials, gauge dependence.) [Jackson, chap. 6]
4. Set 04: [Aug 29, Sep 3, 5] (Electrostatics: Uniqueness of solutions, Earnshaw's theorem, solution for a point charge.) [Schwinger et al., chap. 1; Jackson, chap. 1]
5. Set 05: [Sep 9, 10] (Conservation laws.) [Schwinger et al., chap. 3; Jackson, chap. 6]
6. Set 06: [Sep 24, 26, 30, Oct 1, 3] (Macroscopic electrodynamics.) [Schwinger et al., chap. 4; Jackson, chap. 6]
7. Set 07: [Oct 7, 8] (Dielectric models and response functions.) [Schwinger et al., chap. 5; Jackson, chap. 7]
8. Set 08: [Oct 10, 17] (Kramers-Kronig relation.) [Schwinger et al., chap. 51; Jackson, chap. 7]
9. Set 09: [Oct 21, 22, 28] (Macroscopic energy.) [Schwinger et al., chap. 7]
10. Set 10: Refer Set-14 of PHYS-320 [Oct 29, 31] (Electrically polarizable materials.)
11. Green's function
  1. Set 11: Refer Set-15 of PHYS-320 [Nov 4] (Green's function - Introduction.)
  2. Set 12: Refer Set-16 of PHYS-320 [Nov 5, 7] (Free Green's function - Planar geometry.)
  3. Set 13: Refer Set-17 of PHYS-320 [Nov 12, 14] (Green's function for a semi-infinite dielectric slab.)
  4. Set 14: Refer Set-18 of PHYS-320 [Nov 18, 19] (Method of images.)
12. Bessel functions
  1. Set 15: Refer Set-19 of PHYS-320 [Nov 25] (Special functions.)
  2. Set 16: Refer Set-20 of PHYS-320 [Nov 26, Dec 2] (Bessel functions.) [Schwinger et al., chap. 16]
  3. Set 17: [Dec 3] (Modified Bessel functions.) [Schwinger et al., chap. 18]
13. Cylindrical geometry
  1. Set 18: [Dec 5] (Free Green's function for cylindrical geometry.) [Schwinger et al., chap. 19]
Homeworks:
1. Homework set No. 01 [Due: Aug 28] (Vector calculus and delta functions.)
2. Homework set No. 02 [Due: Sep 13] (Conservation laws.)
3. Homework set No. 03 [Due: Oct 2] (Macroscopic electrodynamics.)
4. Homework set No. 04 [Due: Oct 17] (Dielectric models.)
5. Homework set No. 05 [Due: Oct 30] (Macroscopic energy.)
6. (Optional) Homework set No. 06 [Due: No submission required] (Boundary conditions on Green's function.)
7. Homework set No. 07 [Due: No submission required] (Green's function - An example.)
8. Homework set No. 08 [Due: Nov 20] (Image charges.)
Exams:
More information:
- References:
  - Classical Electrodynamics, by J. D. Jackson. (Assigned texbook.)
  - Classical Electrodynamics, by J. Schwinger, L. L. DeRaad, Jr., K. A. Milton, and Wu-yang Tsai.
  - Electromagnetic Theory, by J. A. Stratton.
  - Introduction to Electrodynamics, by D. J. Griffiths.
- Evaluation: Homework-30%, Midterm Exams-40%, Final Exam-30%.
- Exam schedule:
  - Exam I - September 19 (Thursday, in class),
  - Exam II - October 24 (Thursday, in class),
  - Exam III - November 21 (Thursday, in class),
  - Final Exam - December 10 (Tuesday, 4pm-6pm).

Last updated on Dec 5, 2013 (and is no more maintained) by K V Shajesh (kvshajesh@gmail.com).