| # | Date | Griffiths | Topic |
| 1. | Tue, Jan 25 | Ch. 1-7 | 0. Introduction. Class info. Maxwell's equations. Electrostatics, magnetostatics, and electrodynamics. |
| 2. | Thu, Jan 27 | Ch. 8.1 | 1. Conservation Laws. Conservation of charge. The continuity equation. Conservation of energy. Poynting's theorem. |
| 3. | Tue, Feb 1 | Ch. 8.2 | HW 1 given. Conservation of Momentum. Maxwell's stress tensor. Angular momentum. |
| 4. | Thu, Feb 3 | Ch. 8.2 | Conservation of Momentum. Examples. Angular momentum. |
| 5. | Tue, Feb 8 | Ch. 9.1 | HW 2 given. 2. Electromagnetic Waves. Wave equation from Maxwell's equations in vacuum. Solving wave equation in one dimension. Complex notations, general solution, boundary conditions, polarization. |
| 6. | Thu, Feb 10 | Ch. 9.1, 9.2 | Solving wave equation in one dimension. Fourrier transforms, boundary conditions, polarization. Electromagnetic Waves in Vacuum. Monochromatic plane waves. |
| 7. | Tue, Feb 15 | Ch. 9.2 | HW 3 given. Monochromatic plane waves. The electromagnetic spectrum. Energy and momentum of E/M waves. |
| 8. | Thu, Feb 17 | Ch. 9.3 | Electromagnetic Waves in Matter. Reflection and transmission at normal incidence. Reflection and transmission at oblique incidence. Plane of incidence, law of reflection, Snell's law. |
| Tue, Feb 22 | NO CLASS. NO CLASS. NO CLASS. Will be rescheduled. | ||
| 9. | Thu, Feb 24 | Ch.9.3-9.4 | HW 4 given. Reflection and transmission at oblique incidence. Fresnel's equations, Brewster's angle. Absorption and Dispersion. Ohm's law and relaxation of a free charge in a conductor. |
| 10. | Tue, Mar 1 | Ch. 9.4 | E/M waves in conductors. Skin effect. Reflection at a conducting surface. Dispersion. The frequency dependence of material constants. |
| 11. | Thu, Mar 3 | Ch. 9.4 | HW 5 given. The frequency dependence of permittivity. Complex dielectric constant, absorption coefficient, anomalous dispersion. |
| 12. | Tue, Mar 8 | Ch. 9.4-9.5 | Complex dielectric constant. Plasma. Guided Waves. |
| 13. | Thu, Mar 10 | Ch. 9.5, Chs. 7-9 | Guided Waves. Problem solving session. BYOP (Bring your own problems). |
| 14. | Tue, Mar 15 | Ch. 7-9 | Midterm exam. (open book). |
| 15. | Thu, Mar 17 | Ch. 10.1 | HW 6 given. Electromagnetism and Optics. 3. Potentials and Fields. The Potential Formulation. Solving inhomogeneous wave equation. |
| Tue, Mar 22 | Ch. | NO CLASSES. SPRING RECESS. | |
| Thu, Mar 24 | Ch. | NO CLASSES. SPRING RECESS. | |
| 16. | Tue, Mar 29 | Ch. 10.2-10.3 | Retarded potentials. Continuous distributions. Lienard-Wiechert potentials. |
| 17. | Thu, Mar 31 | Ch.10.3, 11.1 | HW 7 given. The fields of a moving point charge. 4. Radiation. |
| 18. | Tue, Apr 5 | Ch. 11.1 | Radiation from an arbitrary source. Multipole expansion. |
| 19. | Thu, Apr 7 | Ch. 11.1 | HW 8 given. Examples. Electric dipole radiation and magnetic dipole radiation. |
| 20. | Tue, Apr 12 | Ch. 11.2 | Radiation of point charges. Radiation reaction. |
| 21. | Thu, Apr 14 | Ch. 12.1 | Concluding remarks on radiation. HW 9 given. 5. Electrodynamics and Relativity. Principles of relativity. Relativity of simultaneity, time dilation, Lorentz contraction. |
| 22. | Tue, Apr 19 | Ch. 12.1 | Paradoxes: clock synchronization, twin paradox, the barn and ladder paradox, Ehrenfest's paradox. The Lorentz transformations. |
| 23. | Thu, Apr 21 | Ch. 12.1 | HW 10 given. Einstein's velocity addition rule. Spacetime. Four vectors, Lorentz transformations, 4d scalar product, the invariant interval. Space-time diagrams. |
| 24. | Tue, Apr 26 | Ch. 12.2 | Relativistic Mechanics. Proper time, 4-velocity, 4-momentum, rest mass. Conservation of 4-momentum, relativistic kinematics. |
| 25. | Thu, Apr 28 | Ch. 12.2 | HW 11 given. Relativistic dynamics. Second Newton's law. Work and energy. Examples. |
| 26. | Tue, May 3 | Ch. 12.3 | Relativistic Electrodynamics. Lorentz transformations of electric and magnetic fields. Covariant form of Maxwell's equations and of the Lorentz force. Field invariants. Relativistic potentials. |
| 27. | Thu, May 5 | Concluding remarks. The principle of minimal action for classical electrodynamics. Other topics not covered in the course. | |
| Final | Thu, May 12 | Ch. 1, 3, 7-12 | FINAL 11:00am-1:30pm, B-131. |