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Week
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Topics
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Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques
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Study Materials
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1. Week
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Overview of Maxwell equations, treatment of the boundary condtions in various media. Waves in one dimension, boundary conditions, reflections and transimissions, polarization
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Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving; Discussion
Debate
Problem Based Learning
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Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Report (Including Preparation and presentation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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2. Week
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Electromagnetic waves in vacuum, wave equations for E and B, monochromatic plane waves. Energy and momentum in electromagnetic waves
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Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving; Discussion
Debate
Problem Based Learning
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Homework Report (Including Preparation and presentation Time) Activity (Web Search, Library Work, Trip, Observation, Interview etc.)
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3. Week
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Electromagnetic waves in matter, propagation in linear media.
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Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving; Discussion
Problem Based Learning
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Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Project (Including Preparation and presentation Time) Report (Including Preparation and presentation Time)
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4. Week
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Electromagnetic waves in conducting medium, Reflection at a conducting surface, Frequency dependence of the index of refraction, Phase and group velocities, absorption and dispersion, Anomalous dispersion
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Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving; Discussion
Problem Based Learning
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Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Project (Including Preparation and presentation Time) Report (Including Preparation and presentation Time)
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5. Week
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Wave guides, TE waves in a rectangular waveguide, TM modes, TEM modes in coaxial transmission line, Resonant cavities, Schumann resonance
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Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving; Discussion
Problem Based Learning
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Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Project (Including Preparation and presentation Time) Report (Including Preparation and presentation Time)
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6. Week
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Philosophy of the potential formulation, Scalar and vector potentials, Gauge transformations, Choice of gauges, Coulomb and Lorentz gauges
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Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving; Discussion
Problem Based Learning
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Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Project (Including Preparation and presentation Time) Report (Including Preparation and presentation Time)
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7. Week
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Continuous charge distributions, retarded potentials, Retardation effect in potential formula, Jefimenko’s equations
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Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving; Discussion
Problem Based Learning
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Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Project (Including Preparation and presentation Time) Report (Including Preparation and presentation Time)
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8. Week
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Liénard-Wiechert potentials, The fields of a moving point charge, Fields and analysis of the momentum conservation and Newton’s third law
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Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving; Discussion
Problem Based Learning
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Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Project (Including Preparation and presentation Time) Report (Including Preparation and presentation Time)
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9. Week
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Topological effects in electromagnetism, Aharonov-Bohm effect, Aharonov-Casher effect, Comparison of the roles of potentials in classical electrodynamics and quantum mechanics
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Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving; Discussion
Problem Based Learning
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Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Project (Including Preparation and presentation Time) Report (Including Preparation and presentation Time)
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10. Week
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Electric dipole radiation, Magnetic dipole radiation, Radiation resistance
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Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving; Discussion
Problem Based Learning
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Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Project (Including Preparation and presentation Time) Report (Including Preparation and presentation Time)
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11. Week
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Radiation from arbitrary sources, Power radiated by a point charge, Larmor formula, Liénard’s generalization, Synchrotron radiation
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Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving; Discussion
Problem Based Learning
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Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Project (Including Preparation and presentation Time) Report (Including Preparation and presentation Time)
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12. Week
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Radiation in dielectric medium, Cherenkov effect, Bremsstrahlung
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Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving; Discussion
Problem Based Learning
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Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Project (Including Preparation and presentation Time) Report (Including Preparation and presentation Time)
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13. Week
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Radiation reaction, Abraham-Lorentz formula, Run away solutions, Physical basis of radiation reaction
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Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving; Discussion
Problem Based Learning
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Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Project (Including Preparation and presentation Time) Report (Including Preparation and presentation Time)
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14. Week
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Magnetic monopoles, Maxwell equations and duality transformations, Dirac magnetic monopole, Charge quantization, Search for monopoles
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Lecture; Question Answer; Problem Solving; Discussion
Problem Based Learning
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Homework Presentation (Including Preparation Time) Project (Including Preparation and presentation Time) Report (Including Preparation and presentation Time)
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