PHYS 5210 - Electromagnetic Waves, Maxwell Equations, and Relativity

Course last offered 

 :   

Fall 2019/20

Instructor(s)

 :

 Ping SHENG

No. of credits

 :

  4



Teaching Pattern

  • Duration of course: about 14 weeks

  • Lecture hour(s) per week: 4 

 

Content

  • Wave solutions of the Maxwell equations

  • Electromagnetic wave propagation

  • Scattering and diffraction

  • Fourier optics

  • Dielectric constant of metals and dielectrics and its analytic properties

  • Guided waves

  • Radiation by accelerating charges

  • Special relativity and the transformation of Maxwell equations

  • Radiation by moving charges

 

Textbook

  • J. D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics, 3rd edition (Wiley)