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Advanced Electromagnetism (PHYSICS 232)

Subir Sachdev | Spring 2020 | Harvard University

Maxwell's equations in macroscopic media, conservation laws, Green's functions, time-dependent solutions and radiation, scattering and diffraction, and gauge invariance. Time permitting: geometrical optics and caustics, negative refractive index materials and radiation from rapidly accelerating charges.

Lecture Notes

Syllabus

Lectures

10. Waves In Matter
11. Dispersion In Insulators
12. EM Waves In Metals
13. Negative Index Of Refraction
14. Optical Fibers
15. Photonic Lattices
16. Coaxial Cables And Waveguides
17. Geometric Optics
18. Scattering
19. Diffraction
20. Review
01. Electrostatics And Magnetostatics
02. Maxwell's Equations
03. Conservation Of Energy And Momentum
04. Localized Charges And Currents
05. Dipole And Quadrupole Radiation
06. Relativity
07. Action Principle
08. Quantum Mechanics, Gauge Invariance And Monopoles
09. Maxwell Equations In Matter

Homeworks

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