Fall 2017 - PHYS 821 G100
Advanced Electromagnetism I (3)
Class Number: 1641
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Sep 5 – Dec 4, 2017: Mon, Wed, Fri, 11:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
Levon Pogosian
levon@sfu.ca
1 778 782-7598
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Prerequisites:
PHYS 421 or equivalent.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
Advanced topics in classical electromagnetic theory: review of Maxwell's equations in free space and in macroscopic media, with applications in contemporary research; relativistic unification of electromagnetism; Lagrangian and Hamiltonian methods in electromagnetism.
COURSE DETAILS:
• Review of Maxwell’s equations
• Electrostatic boundary value problems, Green's functions, dielectrics
• Magnetostatics, dia-para-ferro-magnetism, superconductivity
• Time-varying fields, scattering of electromagnetic waves
• Lorentz transformation, radiation by moving charges
• Covariant formulation of electromagnetism, gauge invariance, Higgs mechanism
• Time permitting: magnetic monopoles, magnetohydrodynamics, other topics
Grading
- Assignments 50%
- Mid-term 15%
- Final exam 35%
Materials
MATERIALS + SUPPLIES:
Required texts:
Classical Electrodynamics, 3rd ed., J. D. Jackson, Wiley and Sons.
Supplementary texts:
Classical Electromagnetic Field, L. Eyges, Dover
Classical Theory of Fields, 4th ed., L. Landau and E. Lifshitz, Pergamon
Modern Electrodynamics, A. Zangwill, Cambridge University Press.
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