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Physics 7311 - Electromagnetic Theory I
Course Information - Spring 2025
- Lecturer:
Professor Randall J. Scalise
- Lecture meeting times and place: MWF 11:00 - 11:50am Fondren Science Building room 32
- Office hours: by appointment.
- SMU Required Syllabus Statements
- Contact:
- Call or leave a message at 768-2504, or
- Leave a note in the Physics Department Office - 102 Fondren Science, or
- send me e-mail:
<scalise@smu.edu>
- Text:
- Classical Electrodynamics by Jackson (3rd edition)
- Lecture Notes
- Lecture 1
- Lecture 2
- Lecture 3
- Lecture 4, Green functions (1/2), Green functions (2/2)
- Lecture 5
- Lecture 6
- Lecture 7, page 7-18
- Lecture 8, Soap film
- Lecture 9
- Lecture 10
- Lecture 11
- Lecture 12
- Lecture 13
- Lecture 14
- Lecture 15
- Conformal mapping, Notes from Peter Olver
- Variational Techniques: Feynman Lectures 2-19, Jackson 1.12
- Lecture 16
- Lecture 17
- Lecture 18
- Lecture 19
- Lecture 20
- Lecture 21, On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, by A. Einstein June 30, 1905
- Lecture 22, Extra notes
- Lecture 23
- Lecture 24
- Lecture 25
- Lecture 26
- Lecture 27, Hidden
Momentum, Purported Relativity Paradox Resolved
- Lecture 28
- Superconductivity PDF, audio
- Do uniformly accelerated charges radiate?
- Ponderomotive force and Wikipedia entry
- Grading:
- Homework 60%
- MidtermExam 20%
- Final Exam 20%
- Homework Assignments Due dates are strictly enforced.
50% if late; 0% once the solutions are posted. You may work together, but
the work that you turn in should be unique. Identical work will receive a
grade that is divided among all parties. It is possible to find answers to
some homework solutions on the internet; do not do this. The point, after all,
is not to fool me into thinking that you have learned physics, but rather actually
to learn some physics.
- Assignment #1: PDF due Thursday 30 January 2025 at 11:59:59 PM
- Assignment #2: PDF due Thursday 6 February 2025 at 11:59:59 PM
- Assignment #3: PDF due Thursday 13 February 2025 at 11:59:59 PM
- Assignment #4: PDF due Thursday 20 February 2025 at 11:59:59 PM
- Assignment #5: PDF due Thursday 27 February 2025 at 11:59:59 PM
- Assignment #6: PDF due Thursday 6 March 2025 at 11:59:59 PM
- No homework due on Thursday 13 March 2025 because of the midterm exam on Friday 14 March 2025.
- No homework due on Thursday 20 March 2025 because of Spring Break.
- Assignment #7: PDF due Thursday 27 March 2025 at 11:59:59 PM
- Assignment #8: PDF due Thursday 3 April 2025 at 11:59:59 PM
- Assignment #9: PDF due Thursday 10 April 2025 at 11:59:59 PM
- Assignment #10: PDF due Thursday 17 April 2025 at 11:59:59 PM
- Assignment #11: PDF due Thursday 24 April 2025 at 11:59:59 PM
Conformal Mapping Mathematica notebook
- Assignment #12: PDF due Thursday 1 May 2025 at 11:59:59 PM
- Magnetism study problems
- Homework solutions
- Midterm Exam - online, Friday 14 March 2025 during the lecture period (50 minutes)
- Final Exam - online, Thursday 8 May 2025 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM
- Student learning outcome: Students will be able to apply their knowledge
of electromagnetic theory in solving physics problems.
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