Advanced Electromagnetic Theory II
| Instructor | Prof. Marina Artuso |
| Office | PHY 323 |
| telephone | 443-2356 |
| artuso@physics.syr.edu | |
| office hours | by appointment |
Class meeting times
T-Th 12:30-1:50
Textbook
Classical electrodynamics by J.D. Jackson (Wiley Third Edition)
Also recommended
The classical theory of fields by L.L. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz
Electrodynamics of Continuous Media by L.L. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz
Homework
Weekly: submission is due 1 week after published assignment
Grade components
Homework 20%
In class activities (homework solution, presentations, participation) 40%
Final Project 40%
Preliminary Syllabus
- Plane waves in uniform media
- Waves in restricted media
- Radiating systems, Multipole fields and Radiation
- Fields of a localized oscillating source
- Multipole expansion
- Properties of multipole fields: Energy and Angular Momentum
- Special theory of relativity
- Relativistic energy and momentum
- Mathematical properties of space-time in special relativity
- Thomas precession
- Dynamics of relativistic particles and electromagnetic fields
- Lagrangian and Hamiltonian for relativistic charged particles
- Motion in selected field configuration
- Lagrangian for the electromagnetic field
- Effective photon mass in superconductivity
- Collisions, Energy Loss and Scattering of Charged Particles, Cherenkov and transition radiation
- Radiation by moving charges
- Lienard-Wiechert Potentials and fields by a moving charge
- Power emitted and angular distribution of the radiation emitted by an accelerated charge.
- Frequency spectrum of radiation emitted by a relativistic charged particle in instantaneous circular motion
- Undulators and wigglers for synchrotron light sources
- Self-fields and radiative damping
- Radiation emitted during collisions
- Screening effects
- Bremsstrahlung
- Radiation damping, classical models of charged particles
- Magnetic monopoles and field theories.