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PHGN 462: Electromagnetic Waves and Optical Physics

Instructor: Jim McNeil
Office: Meyer Hall 334
E-Mail: jamcneil@mines.edu
Office hours: MTWF 11:-12:30
Meeting times: MWF 10:00 - 10:50
TA: Bill Moore
Office: Meyer Hall 225
E-Mail: wmoore@mines.edu
Office hours: MWF 1:00-2:00

Syllabus (learning objectives, policies, grading, and schedule)


Homework
Assignment 1
Assignment 2
Assignment 3
Assignment 4
Assignment 5
Assignment 6
Assignment 7
Assignment 8
Assignment 9
Assignment 10
Assignment 11 (solution)


Scanned Lecture Notes
Lecture 1: Course Introduction
Lecture 2: Review of Maxwell's Equations
Lecture 3: EM Fields in Matter
Lecture 4: Energy of the EM Fields
Lecture 5: Momentum of EM Fields: Maxwell Stress Tensor
Lecture 6: Review of Waves: String Waves
Lecture 7: EM Waves
Lecture 8: EM Waves in Matter
Lecture 9: Transmission/reflection: Fresnel's Formulas
Lecture 10: EM Waves in conductors: Skin Depth
Lecture 11: Group velocity and Dispersion Model
Group Velocity Applet
Lecture 12: Introduction to Waveguides
Waveguide Applet
Quiz I
Lecture 13: Waveguide examples
Lecture 14: Introduction to Electrodynamic Potentials
Lecture 15: Review
Lecture 16: Retarded Potentials
Quiz II
Lecture 17: Potential of a time-dependent current-carrying wire
Lecture 18: Retarded Fields
Lecture 19: Retarded Fields example: constant velocity
Quiz IV (solution)
Lecture 20: Retarded Fields example: rotating charge
Lecture 21: Review for Exam
Exam I and Solution
Lecture 22: Introduction to EM Radiation
Lecture 23: Electric Dipole Radiation
Lecture 24: Magnetic Dipole Radiation
Lecture 25: EM Radiation: General case
Lecture 26: Quadrupole example
Lecture 27: Center Fed Electric Dipole Antenna
Lecture 28: Antenna Array: End-fire
Lecture 29: Radiation reaction: Self-force
Lecture 30: Review of Special Relativity
Lecture 31: Relativity and E&M: 4-vectors
Lecture 32: Relativity and E&M: Field Tensor
Lecture 33: Introduction to Optics
Lecture 34: Polarization: Vector nature of light
Lecture 35: Fresnel Relations redux
Lecture 36: Interference of two beams of light
Lecture 37: Interferometry by division
Lecture 38: Multiple beam interference
Lecture 39: Diffraction
Lecture 40: Course Review



Send comments & questions to jamcneil@mines.edu
Last Modified: December 4, 2008