PHY842 - Classical Electrodynamics II

Fall 2004

Professor Martin Berz

Lectures

Monday, Wednesday, Friday 11:30 - 12:20, Room 1308 BPS

Office Hours

Room 3253 BPS, 353-9200x2130, email berz@msu.edu

MWF 12:30 - 1:30, or by appointment

Textbook

L.D. Landau, E.M. Lifshitz and L.P. Pitaevskii,

Electrodynamics of Continuous Media, 2nd edition

(Landau and Lifshitz Course of Theoretical Physics, Vol. 8).

Web page

http://bt.pa.msu.edu/phy842

Prerequisite

PHY-841.

Grading

Homework 30% (approximately 10 sets),

Midterm exam 30% (tentatively October 21),

Final exam 40% (TBD)

Outline of Program

1. Maxwell's Equations and Potentials

2. Electrostatics of Conductors

3. Electrostatics of Dielectrics

4. Steady Current

5. Magnetostatics

6. Magnetic Media

7. Superconductivity

8. Quasistationary Fields

9. Electromagnetic Waves in Media

Homework and Solutions

 Problem Sets