PHYS 5210 - Electromagnetic Waves, Maxwell Equations, and Relativity

Teaching Pattern

• Duration of course: about 13 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