PHY 4324

Electromagnetism 2 - Fall 2021

This course is the second semester of electricity and magnetism at the undergraduate physics level. Time enters the theory of electromagnetic fields and we arrive at Maxwell's equations, the complete classical theory of electromagnetism. The arrival happens pretty early in the term, and the bulk of our work will be to study electromagnetic waves and radiation.

Announcements:

Thanks for the semester. Come by to pick up your exams and homework. Spring office hours are Monday 10:40 and Wednesday 12:50

Details

Syllabus
Schedule
Course Number: PHY 4324
Class number: 18513  
Credits: 3
Class Time and place: MWF 5th (11:45-12:35)  in NPB 1002
Final exam time: 3:00–5:00, Wednesday, December 15 in NPB 1002

Instructor: David Tanner
Office: 2372 NPB; Phone: (352) 392-4718
email: tanner@phys.ufl.edu
Office hours: Tuesdays 4:05-5:00 and Wednesdays 12:50-1:40
Office hours are in 2372 NPB or Zoom https://ufl.zoom.us/j/664395112


Textbook and other reading: 

Text: Introduction to Electrodynamics, (Fourth Edition) by David J. Griffiths 

Another  useful text is Classical Electromagnetic Radiation, Jerry B. Marion (1965).  There is a revised 3rd edition  by  Mark A. Heald and Jerry B. Marion. This book is at the same level (more or less) as Griffiths. I'll use it occasionally for lecture material. It appears that it can be downloaded as a pdf. Cheap used copies are available. In addition, reading Feynman's lectures is always valuable.

For a book about electromagnetic waves and optics, you cannot do better than the book Optics by Miles Klein, updated as a second edition by Klein and Thomas Furtak.

If you want to look at graduate-level texts, try Classical Electrodynamics, John D. Jackson (3rd edition 1999). This is the standard graduate text. Also The Classical Theory of Fields, Lev Landau and Evgeny Lifshitz (1951 and later; the 4th edition is revised substantially) and Electrodynamics of Continuous Media, Lev Landau, Evgeny Lifshitz, and L.P. Pitaevskii (1960 and later). The Landau and Lifshitz texts are at the graduate level, but are readable. You need both to cover all of E&M. 

See the Syllabus and Canvas for full details.

Recordings of the streaming video from the fall of 2020 are available.  See https://mediasite.video.ufl.edu/Mediasite/Catalog/catalogs/phy4324-electricity-and-magnetism-ii for the videos.


Zoom sessions from spring 2021 are at http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~tanner/lectures/lectures.html .There are MP4s of the lectures and pdfs of what I wrote on the tablet.

Links to note on oblique  incidence.





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D.B. Tanner  / tanner@phys.ufl.edu / Last modified: Aug 11.