PHY 4324 Schedule

Aug. 23 Introduction, Review Course Expectations, Teaching Philosophy.

Aug. 25 Start Chapter 7, End with Problem 7.1.

Week 2: Aug. 28 Finish Problem 7.1, Continue up to Problems 7.12, 7.13, Quiz 1 on material up to this point.

Aug. 30 Symmetry, Problem 7.16, introduction of M and L.

Sep. 01 Example 7.10, Problems 7.23 and 7.25, give Quiz 1. Quiz 2 on material up to the end of this day.

Week 3: Sep. 04 No class, Labor Day

Sep. 06 Return Quiz 1. Lecture up to Maxwell's "fix" to make a consistent set of Maxwell's Equations.

Sep. 08 Quiz 2

Week 4: Sep. 11 Return Quiz 2. Complete Chapter 7. Start Problem 7.42. Handout from Jackson about Boundary Effects.

Sep. 13 Finish Chapter 7. Work Pr. 7.48.

Sep. 15 Finish Pr. 7.48 and Work Pr. 7.58. Quiz 3

Week 5: Sep. 18 Return Quiz 3. Start Chapter 8, Section 8.1. Material up to the end of the day may be on MTE 1.

Sep. 20 Review for Mid-term

Sep. 22 Mid-term Exam 1 (Chapter 7) [50 minutes, 50 points]

Week 6: Sep. 25 Review Mid-term, Continue with Chapter 8 up to Pr. 8.3. Quiz 4 will cover material in Ch. 8 up to the end of today.

Sep. 27 Continue with Chapter 8, Start Example 8.4.

Sep. 29 Finish Ex. 8.4 and Ch. 8, Start Ch. 9, Quiz 4.

Week 7: Oct. 02 Continue with Ch. 9, wave eq., solutions, terms, jargon, definitions

Oct. 04 up to Radiation Pressure, and top of p. 382

Oct. 06 Review Radiation Pressure, start T&R at an angle, up to issue of Polarization, Quiz 5

Week 8: Oct. 09 No Class Meeting, Work Pr. 9.16!

Oct. 11 Continue T&R case of || polarization, compare to 9.16

Oct. 13 Quiz 6 (material up to, including Pr. 9.16) is fair for this quiz

Week 9: Oct. 16 Finish Sec. 9.4

Oct. 18 Review for Mid-term and Work Pr. 9.37

Oct. 20 Mid-term Exam 2 (Chapter 8) [50 minutes, 50 points] Material from MTE 1 up to (including Sec. 9.4)

Week 10: Oct. 23 Review Mid-term, "Qualitative" discussion of X-ray scattering

Oct. 25 "Quantitative" discussion of X-ray scattering, Start Wave guides, Sec. 9.4

Oct. 27 Continue with Wave guides, Quiz 7 on material from 23-25 Oct.

Week 11: Oct. 30 Final finish on Wave guides

Nov. 01 Start Chapter 10

Nov. 03 Finish Chapter 10, Quiz 8 on Wave guides

Week 12: Nov. 06 Review for Mid-term

Nov. 08 Mid-term Exam 3 (Chapter 9) [50 minutes, 50 points] covering Wave Guides and Chapter 10

Nov. 10 No Class, Veterans Day

Week 13: Nov. 13 Review Exam, Start Ch. 11

Nov. 15

Nov. 17 Quiz 9 over material that was covered by MTE3

Week 14: Nov. 20 Finish Chapter 11

Nov. 22 Biophysics of Radiation and EMF (not covered in textbook but some in ORNL HFIR Radation Training Guide, see links)

Nov. 24 No Class, Thanksgiving Holiday

Week 15: Nov. 27 {MRS in Boston}, Guest Lecture "Stress response in plants due to magnetic levitation and strong magnetic fields", NOT GIVEN

Nov. 29 Special Relativity in 1 lecture! What you need to know about Ch. 12

Dec. 01 Review for Mid-term #4, material from MTE3 to the end of the day Nov. 29

Week 16: Dec. 04 Exam 4 (Chapter 10-11, Special Topics) [50 minutes, 50 pts.]

Dec. 06 Reivew MTE4, Review Course all Material potential for Final Exam, Class ends.

Dec. 08 Optional Review Day, I will be there, come if you want, bring questions

Final Exam: Wednesday, 13 December, 12:30 – 14:30 hrs (Final Exam Group 13C), same classroom as lecture

Special Notes about the Syllabus: Please note that the dates for all quizzes, examinations and chapter starts are TENTATIVE.

The schedule will be finalized during the course and will be announced in class.

Other potentially useful books: Most physics graduate programs assume incoming students have taken an advanced undergraduate course on electricity and magnetism. According to the "AIP Guide to Graduate Programs in Physics and Related Fields", nearly all departments list a text by one of the following groups of authors: Griffiths (this course); J.R. Reitz, F.J. Milford and Christy, Foundations of Electromagnetic Theory; Marion, Electricity and Magnetism; Lorrain and Corson, Electromagnetic Fields and Waves; and Corson and Lorrain, Electromagnetism. All of these texts are presented at about the same level and provide the background necessary for more advanced study. Most graduate physics programs require first year students to take a course in electricity and magnetism. The most popular textbook for this course is J.D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics.