FALL 2006 SEMESTER
PHYS 312 / ELEC 312 – ADVANCED ELECTROMAGNETISM
COURSE INFORMATION
Pre-requisites: PHYS 302 or consent of the instructor
Instructor: Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu
Office: SCI
155
Phone: 338 1424
E-Mail: omustecap@ku.edu.tr
WWW: http://home.ku.edu.tr/~omustecap
Textbook: David J. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics,
(Prentice
Hall, 3rd ed., 1999).
Days & Times: Monday
Wednesday
Office Hours: Monday
Lecture Room: ENG B05
Assistant: Turan Birol,
Office: SCI 131, Phone: 2591, tbirol@ku.edu.tr
Exams and Grading: Midterm exam I: (20%), Oct. 30 (in
class), (Chs. 7, 8, 9.1-3)
Midterm exam II: (20%), Dec. 4 (in
class) (Chs. 9.4-5, 10, 11)
Final exam: (30%) TBA,
(Chs. 7-12)
Homeworks: (15%) No late HWs will be
accepted.
Quizzes: (15%) There will be pop-up
quizzes.
|
Week |
|
Subject (Chapter in Book) |
Assignments |
|
1 |
Sep.
18 |
Electromotive
Force, Electromagnetic Induction (7.1,7.2) |
|
|
2 |
Sep.
25 |
Maxwell's
Equations, Conservation Laws (7.3,8) |
HW I |
|
3 |
Oct.
2 |
Waves
in 1D (9.1) |
|
|
4 |
Oct.
9 |
Electromagnetic
Waves in Vacuum (9.2) |
|
|
5 |
Oct.
16 |
Electromagnetic
Waves in Matter (9.3) |
HW II |
|
6 |
Oct.
23 |
|
|
|
7 |
Oct.
30 |
Midterm I, Absorption and Dispersion (9.4) |
|
|
8 |
Nov.
6 |
Guided
Waves (9.5) |
|
|
9 |
Nov.
13 |
The
Potential Formulation, Continuous Distributions (10.1, 10.2) |
HW III |
|
10 |
Nov.
20 |
Point
Charge Potential, Electric Dipole Radiation
(10.3, 11.1.1-2) |
|
|
11 |
Nov.
27 |
Magnetic
Dipole Radiation, Point Charge Radiation
(11.1.3-4, 11.2) |
HW IV |
|
12 |
Dec.
4 |
Midterm 2, The Special Theory of Relativity (12.1.1-2) |
|
|
13 |
Dec.
11 |
The
Lorentz Transformations, Relativistic Mechanics
(12.1.3-4, 12.2.1-2) |
HW V |
|
14 |
Dec.
18 |
Relativistic
Kinematics, Electrodynamics (12.2.3-4, 12.3.1-2) |
|
|
15 |
Dec.
25 |
The
Field Tensor (12.3.3-5) |
HW VI |