Course Webpage for PHYS-420 (2015 Spring) at SIU--Carbondale

Course Webpage for
PHYS 420: Electricity and Magnetism-II (2015 Spring)
Department of Physics, Southern Illinois University--Carbondale
Last updated: May 11, 2015. (This page is no more maintained.)

General information:
- Instructor: K. V. Shajesh (Office: Neckers 491, Tel.: 453-5212)
- Class meetings: MWF 2:00-2:50PM, in Neckers 410.
- Office hours: TR 11:00AM-2:00PM.
- 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. Introduction and overview [20150121]
2. Cylindrical geometry (modified Bessel functions)
  1. Modified Bessel function of 0-th order [see notes from 20141201]
  2. Free Green's function [20150123, 20150126]
  3. Cylinder Green's function for dielectrics [for reference, not covered in class]
  4. Green's function inside a cylinder with perfectly conducting walls [20150128 (see notes from 20140122]
  5. A point charge inside a perfectly conducting cylinder [20150130]
3. Spherical geometry (spherical harmonics)
  1. A point charge outside a perfectly conducting sphere [20150202]
  2. Induced charge density due to a point charge outside a perfectly conducting sphere [20150204]
  3. Legendre polynomials [20150206]
  4. Multipole expansion - dipole term [20150209]
  5. Integrals involving Legendre polynomials [20150213]
  6. Electric potential due to pure 2l-pole charge distributions [20150218]
  7. Spherical harmonics [20150220, 20150223 (see page 7-9 of earlier notes here)]
  8. Properties of spherical harmonics [20150225 (see page 1 of earlier notes here)]
  9. Evaluating integrals using spherical harmonics [20150227]
4. Magnetostatics
  1. Magnetostatics, Gauge transformations, Biot-Savart law [20150302]
  2. (Bad weather, low attendance.) Discussed Question 1 in Midterm Exam No. 02.
  3. Magnetic field due to infinitely long wire [20150306]
  4. Londons equations for a superconductor [20150316]
  5. Magnetic field due to finitely long straight wire [20150320]
  6. Magnetic field due to circular loop (on the symmetry axis) [20150323]
  7. Magnetic field due to circular loop (in the far-field approximation) [20150325]
  8. Multipole expansion (B in the far-field approximation) [20150327]
  9. Ampere's law [20150330, 20150401 (see notes from Spring 2014)]
  10. Gravity tunnel [20150403, Here is the link to the original paper in arXiv (no subscription required) and in journal.]
5. Special Relativity
  1. Lorentz transformation motivated from Maxwell equations [20150406]
  2. Lorentz transformation, time dilation, and length contraction [20150408]
  3. Velocity addition and elementary tensor notation [20150413]
  4. Relativistic kinematics [20150417, 20150420 (see notes from past)]
  5. Relativistic dynamics
    Acceleration and force [20150424]
    Hyperbolic motion (under constant proper acceleration) [20150427]
6. Electromagnetic radiation
  1. Retarded Green's function [20150429 (refer past notes)]
  2. Potentials and fields due to a point charge moving with constant speed [20150501 (refer past notes)]
  3. Asymptotic potentials and fields [20150504, 20150506 (refer past notes)]
  4. Larmor formula [20150506 (refer past notes)]
  5. Cerenkov radiation [20150508 (refer past notes)]
Homeworks:
1. Homework No. 01 and solutions.
2. Homework No. 02 and solutions.
3. Homework No. 03 and solutions.
4. Homework No. 04 and solutions.
5. Homework No. 05 and solutions.
6. Homework No. 06 and solutions.
7. Homework No. 07 and solutions.
8. Homework No. 08 and solutions.
9. Homework No. 09 and solutions.
10. Homework No. 10 and solutions.
Exams:

More information:

Textbook: Introduction to Electrodynamics, 4th Edition, by David J. Griffiths.
References:
- Course webpage for 2014 Fall.
- Classical Electrodynamics, by J. Schwinger, L. L. DeRaad, Jr., K. A. Milton, and Wu-yang Tsai.
- Electromagnetic Theory, by J. A. Stratton.
- Classical Electrodynamics, by J. D. Jackson.
Evaluation:

Homework 30%

Midterm Exams (3x16.7%) 50%

Final Exam 20%

Exam schedule:

Midterm Exam 01 --- February 11 (Wednesday, in class)

Midterm Exam 02 --- March 18 (Wednesday, in class)

Midterm Exam 01 --- April 15 (Wednesday, in class)

Final Exam --- May 11 (Monday, 2:45-4:45PM)

Last updated on May 11, 2015 (and is no more maintained) by K V Shajesh (kvshajesh@gmail.com).

Midterm Exam 01	---	February 11 (Wednesday, in class)
Midterm Exam 02	---	March 18 (Wednesday, in class)
Midterm Exam 01	---	April 15 (Wednesday, in class)
Final Exam	---	May 11 (Monday, 2:45-4:45PM)

Homework	30%
Midterm Exams (3x16.7%)	50%
Final Exam	20%