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1 Macroscopic Electrodynamics II Physics 5331 Syllabus 7. Time Varying Fields II 7.1 Conservation of energy; energy flux 7.2 Conservation of momentum; Maxwell stress tensor 7.3 Conservation of angular momentum; shear tensor 7.4 Viewpoint on effective conservation laws for macroscopic media 7.5 Maxwell stress tensor example 7.6 Lienard-Wiechart potentials 7.7 Green function for half-infinte geometry 7.8 Discrete transformation properties of electromagnetic quantities 7.9 Connections between classical electromagnetism and quantum field theoryProblems 8. Plane Electromagnetic Waves and Propagation in Matter 8.1 Plane waves in dielectric media 8.2 Reflection and refraction of plane waves from dielectric interfaces I: E ⊥ polarization 8.3 Reflection and refraction of plane waves from dielectric interfaces II: B⊥ polarization 8.4 Brewster's angle and total internal reflection 8.5 Simple model for constitutive relations 8.6 Model applications to plasmas, metals and dielectrics 8.7 Kramers-Kronig relations 8.8 Dispersion in one-dimension: theory and example Problems 9. Wave Guides and Resonant Cavities 9.1 oundary conditions near an imperfect conductor 9.2 General considerations for wave guides of arbitrary cross section 9.3 Example: rectangular waveguide modes 9.4 Power loss in waveguides: power method9.5 Power loss in waveguides: perturbation of boundary conditions 9.6 Rectangular resonant cavity 9.7 Eigenmode expansion for spherical resonant cavity 9.8 Energy loss and frequency shift in resonators 9.9 Orthogonality properties for wave guide eigenfunctions 9.10 Reflection and impedance properties of thin diaphragms in waveguides 2 9.11 Variational examples: thin diaphragms in rectangular waveguides Problems 10. Radiation of Systems and Point Particles; Scattering10.1 EM radiation of systems: harmonic formalism 10.2 EM radiation of systems: real source formalism 10.3 Frequency distribution of radiated power 10.4 Physical interpretation of multipole expansion approximation 10.5 Dipole and quadrupole contributions to radiated power 10.6 Point particle radiations: Larmor and Lienard results 10.7 Synchrotron radiation from periodic trajectories: general considerations10.8 Synchrotron radiation from circular periodic motion 10.9 Definition of polarized scattering cross sections 10.10 Kirchhoff identity for scattering 10.11 Conducting sphere: short wavelength scattering 10.12 Optical theorem 10.13 Conducting sphere: partial wave techniques Problems 11. Relativistic Formulations of Electrodynamics 11.1 The exact relativistic transformation and covariant notation 11.2 Relativistic form of Maxwell's equations 11.3 The "light cone" 11.4 Invariance properties of Lorentz transformations 11.5 Energy/momentum aspects of Lorentz transformations 11.6 Relativistic kinematics in the context of linear and circular particle accelerators 11.7 Relativistic Lagrangian for electrodynamics 11.8 Covariant form of the energy-momentum tensor Problems 12. Feynman Wheeler Theory of Radiation Resistance 12.1 Background 12.2 Feynmann propagator 12.3 Radiation reaction calculation 12.4 Comments 12.5 Adios! 12.6 References for Ch.12 Problems