Topics covered: Electrodynamics-II, Autumn 2018

• Lecture 0 (Aug 3):
  • Introduction to the course and course contents
  • Course Plan

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  Module I: Electromagnetic waves and radiation
  
  
• Lecture 1 (Aug 7)
  • Maxwell equations in vacuum and matter, uniqueness theorems, solution of Laplace's equation
  • Faraday wheel problem
• Lecture 2 (Aug 10)
  • Faraday wheel discussion
  • EM waves: propagation, decay, energy content
• Lecture 3-4 (Aug 13, 17)
  • EM waves: boundary conditions, confined spaces
  
  
• Drop Test (Aug 19)
  
  
• Lecture 5 (Aug 21)
  • EM waves: solutions with sources
• Lecture 6 (Aug 24)
  • EM radiation
• Lecture 7 (Aug 27)
  • Multipoles and antennas
  • Dipole antenna radiation patterns (CDF)
  
  
• Assignment 1 (Aug 27, To be submitted Sep 14)
  
  
• Tutorial 1 (Aug 31)
  

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  Module II: Special Relativity and Electrodynamics
  
  
• Lecture 8 (Sep 3)
  • From electrodynamics to Special Relativity
  • Michelson Morley simulation (CDF)
  • Papers of FitzGerald , Lorentz , Einstein
• Lecture 9 (Sep 7)
  • Transformations of EM fields and waves; Relativistic momentum and energy
  • E=Mc**2 paper
  • Anthony Searle simulations: Visualizing Special Relativity , Seeing Relativity , Commentary on the two videos
• Lecture 10 (Sep 9)
  • Four-vectors, Covariance and contravariance
• Lecture 11 (Sep 11)
  • Metric, Lorentz invariants, Kinematics
• Lecture 12 (Sep 14)
  • Higher-rank tensors
  
  
• Assignment 2 (Sep 14, To be submitted Oct 3)
  
  
• Tutorial 2 (Sep 18)
  
• Lecture 13 (Sep 21)
  • EM field tensor, Maxwell's equations
• Lecture 14 (Sep 25)
  • Lagrangian formulation of relativistic mechanics
• Lecture 15 (Sep 28)
  • Lagrangian formulation of relativistic ED
• Tutorial 3 (Oct 5)
• Midterm (Oct 7)

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  Module III: Relativistic ED: Applications
  
  
• Lecture 16 (Oct 9)
  • Motion of charges in EM fields
• Lecture 17 (Oct 12)
  • Potentials due to a moving charge (Lienard Wiechert)
  
  
• Assignment 3 (Oct 12, To be submitted Oct 30)
  
  
• Lecture 18 (Oct 16)
  • EM fields due to a uniformly moving charge
• Lecture 19-20 (Oct 23-26)
  • Cherenkov radiation
• Lecture 21 (Oct 30)
  • Radiation from an accelerating charge
• Lecture 22 (Nov 2)
  • Radiation from linear acceleration: Bremsstrahlung
  • Mathematica : Bremsstrahlung
• Tutorial 4 (Nov 6)
• Lecture 23 (Nov 9)
  • Radiation from circular orbits: Synchrotron
  • Mathematica : Synchrotron
• Lecture 24 (Nov 12)
  • Radiation reaction force
• Lecture 25-26 (Nov 16-20)
  • EM radiation passing through matter
  
  
• Assignment 4 (Nov 20, To be submitted Dec 10)
  
  
• Tutorial 5 (Nov 27)
  
  
• Final Exam (Dec 1)
  
• Project presentations (Dec 4)

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