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Resources for courses which I am teaching, including lecture notes, problem sheets etc. Important: I will make a set of stripped-down notes (what appears on the projector) before the set of lectures for a given section. Some time after that (a week or so, normally) I will put up the full lecture notes. Note, however, that these will not necessarily contain everything that is explained in the lectures.

Electromagnetic Theory (3rd Year)

This has the course number PHAS3201. Lectures are at 4pm on Mondays and 2pm on Tuesdays in the Massey Lecture Theatre and 4pm on Fridays in the Chemistry Lecture Theatre. Office hours are 1pm-2pm on Mondays and Fridays in my office (4C2 in the LCN). (See my calendar here for confirmation.)

The official web page is here, while the moodle page is here, but only this page and the moodle pages will be kept updated.

PHAS3201 Notes

  1. Preliminaries
  2. Introduction
  3. Macroscopic Fields
  4. Atomic Mechanisms
  5. Ferromagnetism
  6. Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Waves
  7. Reflection and Refraction at a Plane Dielectric Surface
  8. Waves in Conducting Media
  9. Energy Flow and the Poynting Vector
  10. Emission of Radiation
  11. Relativistic Transformations of Electromagnetic Fields

0. Preliminaries

A handout containing the course syllabus, aims and objectives as well as various useful mathematical identities is available here in PDF format.

1. Introduction

A handout containing the important equations and figures from the lecture is available here.

2. Macroscopic Fields

A handout containing the important equations and figures from the lectures is available here.

3. Atomic Mechanisms

A handout containing the important equations and figures from the lecture is available here.

4. Ferromagnetism

A handout containing the important equations and figures from the lecture is available here.

5. Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Waves

A handout containing the important equations and figures from the lecture is available here.

6. Reflection and Refraction at a Plane Dielectric Surface

A handout containing the important equations and figures from the lecture is available here.

7. Waves in Conducting Media

A handout containing the important equations and figures from the lecture is available here.

8. Energy Flow and the Poynting Vector

A handout containing the important equations and figures from the lecture is available here.

9. Emission of Radiation

A handout containing the important equations and figures from the lecture is available here.

10. Relativistic Transformations of Electromagnetic Fields

A handout containing the important equations and figures from the lecture will be available soon

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PHAS3201 Problem Sheets

PDFs of the problem sheets for the course will be available as they are handed out.

Problem Sheet 1

Due in by Friday October 17th. A PDF version is available here. A PDF file of model answers is available here.

Problem Sheet 2

Due in by Friday October 31th. A PDF version is available here.

Problem Sheet 3

Due in by Friday November 14th.

Problem Sheet 4

Due in by Friday November 28th.

Problem Sheet 5

Due in by Friday January 9th 2009.

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