PHY 5346
Fall 2011


Course Outline

Topic Text Lectures
Mathematical Preliminaries
Basic Electrostatics
sects 1.1-1.7; 1.11 8/22-8/31
Method of Images
Orthogonal Expansions
sects 2.1-2.5; 2.8-2.11; 3.1-3.8 9/7-9/26
Green's Functions sects 1.8-1.10; 2.6-2.7; 3.9-3.12 9/28-10/5
Multipoles
Dielectrics
chapter 4 10/5-10/12
Magnetostatics
Magnetic Materials
sects 5.1-5.12 10/17-10/31
Faraday's Law
Magnetic Energy
sects 5.15-5.17 11/2-11/7
Maxwell's Equations
Wave Equation
Poynting's Theorem
sects 6.1-6.3; 6.7 11/9-11/21
Plane Electromagnetic Waves sects 7.1-7.4; 7.8-7.9 11/21-11/30


Test Dates

Exam I-- Wednesday, 19 October (Chaps 1,2, and 3)
Exam II-- Wednesday, 7 December (Chaps 4,5,6 and 7)