Class Plans

Week 15 (Nov 12 - Nov 15): BB

Nov 14: Magnetic dipole radiation and radiation from arbitrary charge [Ref: Griffiths]

Week 14 (Nov 5 - Nov 09): BB

Nov 05: Discussion on electric dipole radiation [Ref: Griffiths]

Week 13 (0ct 29 - Nov 03): BB

Oct 31: Radiation from an accelerating point charge, discussed different cases [Ref: Griffiths]

Nov 01: Electric dipole radiation [Ref: Griffiths and My note]

Week 12 (0ct 22 - Oct 26): BB

Oct 24: Electric field of an accelerating point charge (using Liénard–Wiechert potential) [Ref: Griffiths]

Oct 25: Continued (Electric and magnetic fields of an accelerating point charge) [Ref: Griffiths]

Week 11 (0ct 15 - Oct 19): BB

Oct 17: Liénard–Wiechert potential [Ref: Griffiths]

Oct 18: Liénard–Wiechert potential and its application to point charge [Ref: Griffiths]

Week 10 (0ct 01-Oct 06): PD

Sep 26: The perspective of field theory. [Ref: Classical Theory of Fields II, Landau and Lifshitz]

Sep 27: Maxwell's equations in covariant form, symmetry and physical laws. [Ref: Classical Theory of Fields II, Landau and Lifshitz]

Sep 28: Energy momentum tensor for the electromagnetic field. [Ref: Classical Theory of Fields II, Landau and Lifshitz]

Week 9 (Sep 24-Sep29): PD

Sep 26: Application of four-vector notation into simple problems, energy momentum relation for a particle in an electromagnetic field. [Ref: Classical Theory of Fields II, Landau and Lifshitz]

Sep 27: Gauge invariance, work done by EM field and properties of electromagnetic field tensor. [Ref: Classical Theory of Fields II, Landau and Lifshitz]

Sep 28: Action for a group of charges and field part, towards the Maxwell's equation. [Ref: Classical Theory of Fields II, Landau and Lifshitz]

Week 8(Sep 17-Sep22): PD

Sep 19: Discussion of Mid semester question and answers.

Sep 20: Revisiting four vectors with examples.

Week 7 (Sep4-Sep8): PD

Sep 05: Further discussion on Four Vectors, Transformation of Four Vectors, Tensors [ Ref: Classical Theory of Fields II, Landau and Lifshitz]

Sep 06: Action for a charged particle in electromagnetic field. [ Ref: Classical Theory of Fields II, Landau and Lifshitz]

General Discussion: Sep 01, 11:00 AM to 12:00 Noon

Week 6 (Aug 27-Sep1): PD

Aug 29: Time dilatation, Length contraction [ Ref: Classical Theory of Fields II, Landau and Lifshitz]

Aug 30: Lorentz Transformation, , Doppler Effect, Action for a free particle [ Ref: Classical Theory of Fields II, Landau and Lifshitz]

Aug 31: Introduction to Four Vectors, Covariant and Contravariant Components, Four Velocity [ Ref: Classical Theory of Fields II, Landau and Lifshitz]

Week 5 (Aug 20-26): PD

Aug 23: Concepts of interval and Space-time Diagram [ Ref: Classical Theory of Fields II, Landau and Lifshitz]

Aug 24: Structure of the Space-Time, Proper Time, Time dilation [ Ref: Classical Theory of Fields II, Landau and Lifshitz]

General Discussion: Aug 18, 11:00 AM to 12:00 Noon

Week 4 (Aug 13-18): PD

Aug 16: Postulates of Special Relativity [ Ref: Classical Theory of Fields II, Landau and Lifshitz]

Aug 17: Class Cancelled

Week 3 (Aug 6-11): BB

Aug 8: Jefimenko's solution for Electric and Magnetic field [Ref: Griffith]

Aug 9: Poynting theorem; Energy momentum in of the electromagnetic fields [Ref: Griffiths/Jackson]

Aug 10: Maxwell stress tensor [Ref: Jackson]

General Discussion: Jul 28, 11:00 AM to 12:00 Noon

Week 2 (Aug 1-3): BB

Aug 1: Solution of Maxwell's equation using Green's function [Ref: Ashok Das]

Aug 2: Green's function in general, Solution of Poisson equation [Ref: Ashok Das]

Aug 3: General solution of Poisson equation and different boundary conditions [Ref: Ashok Das]

Week 1 (Jul 25-28): BB

Jul 25: Course Introduction

Jul 26: Review of Maxwell's equations and some discussion related to these [Ref: Griffiths]

Jul 27: Potential formulations of Maxwell equations, Gauge transformations, Towards solving the equations of potentials. Introduction to Green's function [Ref: Griffiths/Ashok Das]