• This is the second quarter of the graduate level course on classical electrodynamics

• The text for the class is Classical Electrodynamics by Jackson

• Lectures will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 11.00 am and 12.15 pm in Phys/Astro A114
  

• Homework will be due each Thursday after the lecture.

• The 75 minute midterm will be on Feb 9 during lecture time.

• The Final exam will be at 4.30 pm Wednesday March 15.

• The course TA is Xiaonan Wang, whos office hour is 3.00-4.00pm Wednesdays
  

• My office hour is Tuesdays 2pm-3pm.

• The Syllabus is the contents of Jackson, Chapters 1 to 8 inclusive.
  

Week	Physics	Reading (Jackson) and Assignments
Jan 2 - 6	Electrostatics: Colombs law,  Cavendish Experiment with photon mass, Greens theorem,  Capacitance, Energy in electric field	Read : Chapter I, Chapter 1 and Chapter 2. Assignment 1 due Thursday Jan 5 Assignment 2 due Thursday Jan 12
Jan 9-13	Force between Conductors Method of Images : plate, sphere, hemispherical Boss Sphere in a uniform electric field	Assignment 3 due Thursday Jan 19
Jan 16-20	Separation of Variables Systems with spherical boundary conditions	Read : Chapter 3 Assignment 4 due Thursday Jan 26
Jan 23-27	Cylindrical coordinate systems Green functions inside conducting cylinder : 1/ J,N expansion 2/ K,I expansion Multipole Expansions	Read : Chapter 4 Assignment 5 due Thursday Feb 2
Jan 30-Feb 3	Multipole Expansions Electric Displacement Dielectrics	Read : Chapter 4 No Assignment
Feb 6-10  MIDTERM EXAM Thursday feb 9.	Spherical Capacitors with Dielectrics Energy in electric field with dielectrics Magnetostatics	Read : Chapter 5 Assignment 6 due Thursday Feb 16
Feb 13-17	Biot-Savart Law Force between currents Current Density Amperes Law Vector potential, Coulomb gauge Superposition Vector Potential due to a Current Loop	Read : Chapter 5 Assignment 7 due Thursday Feb 23
Feb 20-24	Surface Currents Boundary Conditions on B, A in vacuum Multipole Expansion of A and B Magnetic Dipole Moment Force and Torque on Current Distributions Magnetic Scalar potential Magnetized sphere	Read : Chapter 5 Assignment 8 due Thursday March 2
Feb 27-March 3	Magnetic shielding Hole in superconducting plane faraday's Law Energy in Magnetic field Inductance	Read : Chapter 5 Assignment 9 due Thursday March 2
March 6-10	Self and Mututal Inductance Maxwells Equations---the full story Gaug Invariance Lorenz gauge, Columb gauge Greens function, retarded and advanced Time dependent current in a straight wire.	Read : Chapter 6  No Assignment
March 13-17  EXAM WEEK FINAL EXAM Wednesday March 15, 4.30 pm - 6.20pm		Final Exam