Course currently teaching
PH702: Electrodynamics
(PhD Coursework)
Brief Outline:
Maxwell’s equations, Green function formalism and boundary value problems in electrostatics and magnetostatics, Poynting’s theorem and Gauge transformations, Electromagnetic waves in dielectric and conducting media; Waveguide and resonant cavity;
Radiation: Retarded potential, Field and radiation of a localized Oscillating source, Electric dipole radiation, Center-fed linear antenna, Lienard-Wiechert potential, radiation by nonrelativistic and relativistic charges, angular distribution of radiation;
Scattering: scattering at long wavelengths, Thomson and Rayleigh scattering, Born approximation;
Relativistic electrodynamics: covariant formalism of Maxwell’s equations.
Texts/References:
1. Classical Electrodynamics J.D. Jackson
2. Electrodynamics of Continuous Media, Landau and Lifshitz
3. Electrodynamics H. J. W. Muller Kirsten
4. Classical Electromagnetic Radiation G. S. Smith
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Other Courses I have Taught
| Electrodynamics | (PhD course work) |
| Advanced Classical Mechanics | (B.Tech. Engg. Phys.) |
| Classical Mechanics | (M.Sc. Phys.) |
| Electrodynamics | (B.Tech. General) |
| High Energy Physics | (M.Sc. Phys.) |
| Quantum Mechanics | (PhD course work) |
| Quantum Mechanics II | (M.Sc. Phys.) |
| Quantum Field Theory | (M.Sc. Phys.) |
| Mathematical Physcis II | (M.Sc. Phys.) |
| Nuclear and Particle Physics | (M.Sc. Phys.) |
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