Professor Thomas Curtright
Assignment #1: For fun and profit: Get the old E&M qualifier exams and solve them! |
Assignment #2: Read Griffiths (the undergraduate textbook) Chapters 7 et seq. and Jackson Chapters 6 et seq. |
Assignment #3:
Electromagnetic
momentum in a
medium, and the
controversy about
it, is
discussed at length here.
"Hidden" mechanical momentum is discussed here, but the subject is
also not without controversy (see here
and references therein).
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Assignment #4: Jackson discusses Hertz potentials very briefly in Chapter 6, Section 13. A thorough but accessible modern treatment that invokes concepts from differential geometry may be found here. |
Assignment #5: Read Jackson Chapter 9, perhaps after reviewing Chapter 7. |
Assignment #6: For a better appreciation of gauge transformations, read this and perhaps also this. |
Assignment #7: Read Jackson Chapter 10. (Mind the units!) |
Assignment #8: Read about the first experiment to detect cyclotron radiation from a single electron, as described here. |
Assignment
#9: Read
Jackson Chapter 11. (Mind the units!) |
Assignment
#10: Read Jackson Chapter 12, sections 1, 7, 10,
and 11. (Mind the units!) |
Assignment #11: Read Jackson Chapter 14, sections 1, 2, and 3. (Again, mind the units!) |
Assignment #12: Read Jackson Chapter 16. (Yet again, mind the units!) |