This URL
will contain PDF copies of the lectures by Prof.
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.
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
In class we followed
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
Week 14
(Tuesday April 19) Lecture 23
(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