UIUC Physics 436: Lecture Notes, Handouts, Etc.
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General Orientational Information, A Brief History of Electromagnetism...
Electrodynamics:
- Lecture Notes 01: Conservation Laws: Continuity Equation (Charge Conservation), Poynting's Theorem (Energy Conservation), Poynting's Vector
- Lecture Notes 02: Conservation Laws (Continued): Conservation of Linear Momentum, Maxwell's Stress Tensor
- Lecture Notes 03: Conservation Laws (Continued): Conservation of Angular Momentum
Electromagnetic Waves
- Lecture Notes 04: Intro to Waves, the Wave Equation, Wave Propagation
- Lecture Notes 05: EM Waves, Wave Propagation in Free Space/Vacuum
- Misc. Handout: Sunlight Alters Asteroids' Spin
- Lecture Notes 06: EM Waves, Wave Propagation in Linear/Homogeneous/Isotropic Media - Part I
- Lecture Notes 06.5: EM Waves, Wave Propagation in Linear/Homogeneous/Isotropic Media - Part II
- Lecture Notes 07: EM Waves, Wave Propagation in Conducting Media
- Lecture Notes 07.5: Dispersion Phenomena in Linear/Homogeneous/Isotropic Media
- Lecture Notes 08: More on EM Wave Propagation in Conducting Media
- Lecture Notes 08.5: Dispersion Phenomena in Linear/Homogeneous/Isotropic Conducting Media, Plasmas, ...
- Lecture Notes 09: AC EM Electromagnetic Fields Associated with a Circular Parallel-Plate Capacitor
- Lecture Notes 10: Waveguides and Guided EM Waves
- Lecture Notes 10.5: EM Waves in Resonant Cavities
Potentials and Fields
- Lecture Notes 11: Potentials and Fields, Potential Formulation, Gauge Transformations, Jefimenko's Equations, Feynman-Heaviside Eqns for Moving Point Charge
- Lecture Notes 12: Lienard-Wiechert Retarded Potentials for Moving Point Charge, Retarded Electric and Magnetic Fields Associated with Moving Point Charge
Electromagnetic Radiation
- Lecture Notes 13: Electromagnetic Radiation, Electric Dipole Radiation
- Lecture Notes 13.5: Electromagnetic Radiation, Magnetic Dipole Radiation, Antenna Impedance, Antenna Resistance
- Lecture Notes 13.75: Electromagnetic Radiation, Electric and Magnetic Quadrupole Radiation
- Lecture Notes 14: Electromagnetic Radiation from An Arbitrary Source, Radiation Reaction on a Moving Point Charge
- Lecture Notes 14.5: Classical Non-Relativistic Theory of Scattering of EM Radiation, Thomson and Rayleigh Scattering
Electrodynamics and Relativity
- Lecture Notes 15: Electrodynamics and Relativity, Time Dialation, Lorentz Contraction, Simultaneity, Lorentz Transformations, Einstein's Velocity Addition Rule
- Lecture Notes 16: Structure of Spacetime, 4-Vectors, 4-Vector Scalar Products, Invariant Intervals, Minkowski Space-Time Diagrams
- Space-Time Diagram for Galilean Transform of World Line
- Space-Time Diagram for Lorentz Transform of World Line
- Lecture Notes 17: Proper Time, Proper Velocity, The Energy-Momentum 4-Vector, Relativistic Kinematics, Elastic/Inelastic Collisions, Compton Scattering
- Lecture Notes 18: Relativistic Electrodynamics
- Lecture Notes 18.5: Lorentz Transformation of EM Fields, the EM Field Tensor
- Lecture Notes 18.75: The Relativistic Stress Tensor
- Lecture Notes 19: Relativistic Electrodynamics (Continued), Relativistic Form of Maxwell's Equations, Minkowski Force on an Electric Charge, the 4-Potential A_mu, Relativistic Gauge Invariance
- Lecture Notes 20: Relativistic Electrodynamics of Moving Macroscopic Media
- Lecture Notes 21: More on Gauge Invariance, Why Photon Mass = 0, "Universal"/Common Aspects of Fundamental Forces
