Venue: Chern Lecture Hall
Class Timings: Wednesdays and Thursdays from 11:30 AM - 01:00 PM
First Meeting: 08 January 2025
Course Description: This will be an course in electromagnetic theory at the level of Landau and Lifshitz and Jackson. The emphasis will be on electromagnetism as an example of a relativistic classical field theory. The course will begin with special relativity and view Maxwell's equations from a slightly advanced point of view. The aim is to help beginning students to make the transition to research. There will be two 90 minute lectures a week and one tutorial. Solving problems is an essential part of the course. Each lecture will begin with a simple 15 minute quiz to help the instructor pitch the lectures at the appropriate level.References:
- Landau and Lifshitz, Classical Theory of Fields
- Jackson Electrodynamics Rybicki
- Lightman Radiative Processes in Astrophysics
- Class Quizzes: 25%
- Assignments: 25%
- Mid-Term Examination 25%
- End term Exam: 25%
Course Outcome:
- Understand the variational principles, symmetries and their associated conservation laws in electromagnetism and apply them to solve problems.
- Solve electrostatic/magnetostatic boundary value problems using the methods of Green functions, Eigenfunction expansions, multipole expansion etc.
- Solve EM radiation problems using waveguide theory, far-field approximations, Larmor formula, Hertz-Debye potentials, vector multipole expansions, etc.
- Solve EM scattering/diffraction problems in long/short wavelength approximations as well as Mie scattering at intermediate wavelengths.
- Construct and use simple statistical mechanical models of electric/magnetic susceptibility, ohmic conductivity, Debye screening and electrochemical activity.
- Derive commonly used constitutive relations and make simple order of magnitude estimates of electric/magnetic properties of matter
- Teacher: Pallavi Bhat
- Teacher: Joseph Samuel
Credit Score: 4