Jan. 5: The syllabus below the green line is from last year. This year, because 503 only covered through section 6.3 of Jackson, we will have to add material from chapters 6 and 7, and we will have to leave out some of the material listed below. More details to come.

The syllabus is subject to change, often without advance notice, but the changes will probably be small. These will occur in response to the speed with which we cover material, individual class interests, and possible changes in the topics covered.

	Date	Topic	Reading
L1	1/20	Intro, Green f, Fourier, \vec \nabla\cdot\vec D = \rho	237-246,248-255
L2	1/24	Poynting, Energy, Momentum, T_{\alpha\beta}, Harmonic Fields, Symmetry	258-273
L3	1/31	Monopoles, q quantization. Electromagnetic waves, reflection	273-280,295-300,302-304
L4	2/3	reflection, refraction, dispersion	305-314
L5	2/7	Group vel, Causality, KK, Interface	322-325,330-334, 352-355
L6	2/10	Power Loss, Wave Guides	355-362
H1	2/10	Homework Assignment # 1: Jackson 6.1, 6.4, 6.5
L7	2/14	Attenuation, Resonant Cavity	363-366,368-374
H2	2/17	Homework Assignment # 2: Jackson 7.3, 7.16, 8.5 (see link)
L8	2/17	Curvilinear Coordinates	Arfken 2.1-2.2, Notes 1-10
L9	2/21	Schumann Resonances	429-431, LectI
P2	2/28	Project # 2
L10	2/24	Optical Fibers, Sources in Wave Guides	378-384, 389-394
L11	2/28	Open Space Fields	407-416,425-428
L12	3/3	Vector Multipoles, Scattering	429-431, 456-459
H3	3/3	Homework Assignment # 3: Jackson 8.9, 8.14 (see link)
L13	3/7	Collections of Scatterers	461-469
Exam	3/10	Covers Chapters 6-9
L14	3/21	Optical Theorem, Index of Refraction	500-505, Lecture 14
L15	3/24	Special Relativity	514-8,524-534, Lecture 15
H5	3/24	Homework Assignment # 5:view,  print. Redo exam 1-2
L16	3/28	Lorentz Transf and E&M	538-548, Lecture 16
L17	3/31	Spin and Thomas Precession, g-2	548-565, Lecture 17
H6	3/31	Homework Assignment # 6:
L18	4/4	Motion in B, Lagrangians	579-588. Lecture 18:1-7
L19	4/7	Lagrange density for E&M, Tμν	592-596,583-585, 598-600, 605-610. Lect 18:8-13, Lect 19:1-4??
H7	4/7	Homework Assignment # 7:
L20	4/11	Tμν with charges, Eq. of motion for Aμ.	610-615. Lect 19:4??-10
Note: we will need to skip sections 12.6, 12.8 and 12.9 this year. You can look at (2010) lect18.pdf if you are interested.
L21	4/14	Charged particle energy loss	624-626, 631-634. Lect 21:1-6
L22	4/18	More energy loss, Cherenkov radiation	Lect 21:6-9, Lect22:1-5
L23	4/21	Radiation by Moving Charges	Lect22:5-10, Lect23:1-??
L24	4/25	Frequency and Angular Distribution	Lect 24:1-6
L25	4/28	Bremsstrahlung	Lect 25:1-6
L26	5/2	Back Reaction	Lect 26:1-6
Exam	5/09	Final exam, 12:00-4:00 in SEC 202
From Last Year
L11	3/1	Optical Theorem, Index of Refraction	500-505, Lecture 11
L12	3/4	Special Relativity	514-8,524-534, Lecture 12
H4	3/4	Homework Assignment #4 work out Jackson section 10.1C
L13	3/8	Lorentz Transformation and E&M	514-548, Lect 13
L14	3/22	Spin, Thomas Precession	548-565, Lect 14
L15	3/25	Motion in External Fields	585-591, Lect 15
L16	3/29	Lagrangian Formulation, Adiabatic Flux Invariance	579-585,592-596, Lect 16
L17	4/1	Action;Θμν with J, Eq. for A, Green's functions	598-600, 605-615, Lect 17
L18	4/5	Darwin and Proca Lagrangians	596-598, 600-604. Lect 18
L19	4/8	Charged particle energy loss	624-626,631-634, Lect 19
L20	4/12	Cherenkov, Lienard-Wiechert	637-639,661-668,Lect20
L21	4/15	Radiation from Accelerating Charge	663-673, Lect20:17-23, Lect21
L22	4/19	Frequency Distribution, Wigglers, Thomson	673-5,683-5,694-7, Lect22
L23	4/22	Bremsstrahlung	708-710, 730-737
L24	4/26	Radiation Reaction	745-750,764-768
L25	4/29	Intro to Gauge Theories	Lect25, pt1

I expect to cover most of chapters 8-16 of Jackson. Time will tell.
Sections skipped: 8.6; pp. 373-4; 8.11, 415-424, 432-449, 460, 470-499. 11.2, 12.4, 12.6, 12.8, 12.9, 627-630, 644-654, 676-683, 686-693, 711-730. 16.3-16.6.