PHYS2040
Classical Theoretical Physics II [ Course Website ]
Textbook:
Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics
Course Outline:
- Review of Basic Electromagnetism: Electrostatics, Magnetostatics, Time varying fields,
- Maxwell's Equations
- Plane EM Waves and Propagation in a Medium
- Dispersion Relations between Absorption and Diffraction; Kramers-Kronig Relations
- Radiating Systems, Scattering
- Special Relativity
- Covariance of Maxwell's Equations under the Transformations of Special Relativity
- Covariant (Lagrangian and Hamiltonian) Descriptions of Charged Particles and Electromagnetic Fields
- Electromagnetic Energy Radiation by Accelerated Charges; Cerenkov Radiation
Note: A core course offered every year, required for the Ph.D.
