This URL will contain PDF copies of the lectures by Prof. Dagotto, UT,

as they are delivered during the spring of 2016. The content of the files “Lecture #”

is what was written on the screen of room 306. Also here you can find the

handwritten scanned lectures of the professor based on his notes, with more detail.

Also additional material, such as some scientific papers discussed in class,

are included in this web page.

 

Week 1 (Thursday Jan. 14)     Lecture 1

                                              Scanned professor’s notes for Chapter 1    

                                                                Bound on photon mass (PRL 2012).   

                                              Bound on photon mass (recent review)

                                                                Schwinger limit for nonlinear effects.

 

Week 2 (Tuesday  Jan.19)    Lecture 2

             (Thursday  Jan 21)   No lecture due to weather problems.

 

Week 3 (Tuesday Jan.26)    Lecture 3

                                              Notes by teacher on oxide interfaces, not contained in Chapter 1 nor in Jackson.

                                               Paper on oxide interfaces

                                               Another paper on oxide interfaces where details of experiments can be found

                                            “Physics” journal paper on dipole layer (2009)

                                              Scanned professor’s notes on dipole layer at surface of metals.

            (Thursday Jan. 28)     Lecture 4

                                              Scanned professor’s notes for Chapter 2, first part.

 

Week 4 (Tuesday Feb 2)       Lecture 5

                                              Scanned professor’s notes for Chapter 2, second part.

             (Thursday Feb. 4)     Lecture 6      

 

Week 5 (Tuesday  Feb. 9)     Lecture 7

                                              Scanned professor’s notes for Chapter 3       

                                              Scanned professor’s notes for Chapter 4, first part

            (Thursday Feb. 11)   Lecture 8

                                              Scanned professor’s notes for Chapter 4, second part

 

Week 6 (Tuesday Feb. 16)   Lecture 9

            (Thursday Feb. 18)   Lecture 10

                                              Scanned professor’s notes for Chapter 5, first part

 

Week 7 (Tuesday Feb. 23)    Lecture 11

                                               Scanned professor’s notes for Chapter 5, second part

            No lecture Thursday Feb 25 due to mid term exam 1

 

Week 8    (Tuesday March 1)  Lecture 12

                                                Scanned professor’s notes for Chapter 5, third part

                                                Scanned professor’s notes for Chapter 5, fourth part

                                                Scanned professor’s notes for Chapter 5, fifth part

                (Thursday March 3)  No class due to trip of professor.

 

Week 9

                (Tuesday March 8) Lecture 13

 

              (Thursday March 10)  Lecture 14                  

 

Week of March 15-17    SPRING BREAK!!

 

Week 10

              (Tuesday March 22)   Lecture 15

              (Thursday March 24) Lecture 16

                                                   Scanned professor’s notes for Chapter 6, first part

                                                   Scanned professor’s notes for Chapter 6, second part

                                                   Scanned professor’s notes for Chapter 6, third part

 

Here there is an interesting link to an article about the 150 years of Maxwell equations.

Here there is another one.

 

Week 11

               (Tuesday March 29)     Lecture 17

               (Thursday March 31)   Lecture 18

                                                    Scanned professor’s notes for Chapter 7, first part

 

Week 12

               (Tuesday April 5)        Lecture 19

                 (Tuesday April 7)      Lecture 20

                                                  Scanned professor’s notes for Chapter 7, second part

                                                  Scanned professor’s notes for Sec.6.4 (intro to Ch.9)

                                                  Scanned professor’s notes for Chapter 9, first part

 

Week 13

               (Tuesday April 12)     Lecture 21

                                                  Scanned professor’s notes for Chapter 9, second part

                                                  Scanned professor’s notes for Chapter 9, third part

               (Thursday April 14)    Lecture 22

In class we discussed briefly the possibility of having antennas made out of several dipoles pointing along the z axis,

that could be all located in the xy plane at some distance from each other related with the wavelength, or they could be

phase shifted, leading to a variety of patterns, including a cardioid and also a “beam” i.e. unidirectional radiation.

You can find my notes on this subject in the following file

                                                     Notes on designing antennas with complex patterns out of dipoles

These notes were based on many sources including the following

http://personal.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/D.Jefferies/pantarray.html

 

                                                  Scanned professor’s notes from Griffiths, section “Radiation from a point charge”, part one

                                                  Scanned professor’s notes from Griffiths, section “Radiation from a point charge”, part two

                                Scanned material directly from Griffiths book, third edition, on radiation by point charges (first part)

In class we followed Griffiths and used objects of length L moving at speed v to rationalize the appearance of

the correction factor 1/(1-v/c). We also used the limit from a “cloud” charge distribution rho to a point charge q.

HOWEVER, this is not needed. There is a rigorous mathematical derivation that starts with a “delta” function

for the charge and arrives perfectly to the correction factor. The information is in the following link:

                                     Mathematical proof that 1/(1-v/c) correction factor is right.

In far less detail, and using a relativistic notation, this is also done on page 662 Jackson.

 

Week 14

               (Tuesday April 19)      Lecture 23

                                Scanned material directly from Griffiths book, third edition, on radiation by point charges (second part)

               (Thursday April 21)    Lecture 24

                                                    Scanned professor’s notes for Chapter 11, first part

 

Week 15

               (Tuesday April 26)       Lecture 25    This was the last lecture of the semester!!

                                                    Scanned professor’s notes for Chapter 11, second part

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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       TOPICS NOT COVERED THIS YEAR

 

1.     Electrostatic energy of ionic cystals. Madelung constants.

     Scanned professor’s notes on electrostatic energy of ionic crystals

 

2.     Subtleties of gauge fixing.

     Fixing a gauge is more subtle than usually believed. A discussion can be

     found in this Wikipedia link “Gauge Fixing”  . In non-abelian theories, gauge

     fixing may lead to the Gribov ambiguity where an apparently good gauge may

     not intersect a gauge orbit or may do it more than once. See Gribov ambiguity