Tutorial on A2: Electromagnetism and Optics

Tutor information

Dr. Xianxin Guo

Electromagnetism in Michaelmas Term 2023

There will be four tutorial sessions on Fridays of MT week 3, 4, 6, and 8. The first tutorial session consists of an one-hour class starting at 2:00 pm and paired tutorials each lasting 45 minutes. Subsequent sessions may be rearranged slightly depending on the outcome and your feedback.

Written work can be either emailed to me in PDF format or handed in to the Porter's Lodge before 6:00 pm on Mondays. They will be marked and returned to you before the tutorial session. Please bring the marked work to the paired tutorials.

Time

Tutorial 1 (Potentials)

MT week 3: 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm, 27 October 2023

Tutorial 2 (Electric and magnetic fields in matter)

MT week 4: 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm, 3 November 2023

Tutorial 3 (Electromagnetic waves)

MT week 5: 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm, 17 November 2023

Tutorial 4 (Special relativity, transmission lines and resonant cavities)

MT week 8: 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm, 1 December 2023

Venue

Seminar Room 4, Keble College

Problem sheets

Please use the problem sheets from the lecture for the tutorial.

Optics in Hilary Term 2024

There will be four tutorial sessions on Fridays of HT week 2, 4, 6 and 8. Each session consists of an one-hour class starting at 2:00 pm and paired tutorials each lasting 45 minutes.

Written work can be either emailed to me in PDF format or handed in to the Porter's Lodge before 6:00 pm on Mondays. They will be marked and returned to you before the tutorial session. Please bring the marked work to the paired tutorials.

Time

Tutorial 5 (Diffraction)

HT week 2: 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm, 26 January 2024

Seminar Room 1

Tutorial 6 (Optical instruments)

HT week 4: 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm, 9 February 2024

Seminar Room 1

Tutorial 7 (Interferometry)

HT week 6: 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm, 23 February 2024

Seminar Room 1

Tutorial 8 (Polarization)

HT week 8: 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm, 8 March 2024

Seminar Room 2

Revision

HT week 9: 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm, 15 March 2024

Seminar Room 1

Problem sheets

Please use the problem sheets from the lecture for the tutorial.