Announcements

May 27: New lecture notes posted

May 26: HW7 posted, due May 31

May 19: Excerpt of models of antennas posted on Lectures

May 18: HW6 posted, due May 24

May 3: In-class midterm May 5th, class time and room

May 3: Electric and magnetic dipole radiation notes posted on Lectures

May 3: Take-home midterm issued today in class, due May 10 at the beginning of the class!

April 21: HW5 posted, due April 26

April 17: HW4 posted, due April 21

April 14: HW3 posted, due April 17

April 7: HW2 posted, due April 14

March 31: HW1 now due April 7

March 29: Welcome to 100C!

PHYSICS 100C SPRING 2016 COURSE SCHEDULE

Week 1:Tuesday March 29th, Thursday March 31st, 2016
Transmission of EM waves in matter
Week 2:Tuesday April 5, Thursday April 7
Fresnel equations, Gaussian Beams, (Paraxial) Helmholtz equation, conductors, plasmas
Week 3: Tuesday April 12, Thursday April 14
Absorption and dispersion, Guided waves (waveguides, TE waves in rect. waveguide, coaxial transmission line).
Week 4: Tuesday April 19, Thursday April 21
Dielectric waveguides 1D & 2D, optical fibers. Potential formulation of Maxwell's equations.
Week 5: Tuesday April 26, Thursday April 28
Retarded potentials. Lienard-Wiechert potentials and fields of a moving point charge
Weeks 6,7: Tuesday May 3, Thursday May 5, Tuesday May 10, Thursday May 12
Radiation.
Weeks 8: Tuesday May 17, Thursday May 19
The special theory of relativity
Week 9: Tuesday May 24
12.2 Relativistic mechanics
Week 9: Thursday May 26
12.3 Relativistic electrodynamics
Week 10: Tuesday May 31, Thursday June 2
Review sessions for the final.