Course plan
Professor: Michael Hilke (hilke at Physics.mcgill.ca) office 408
TA: Samuel Laliberté (samuel.laliberte at mail.mcgill.ca) office 327A
Course: PHYS 562 - Electromagnetic Theory
Context: This course is intended for advanced students, including final year undergraduates and graduate students.
Course Information:
Content:
- Review of electrostatics, dielectrics, magnetostatics, timevarying fields, radiating systems, and fields of moving charges (online notes)
- Mathematical methods in E&M theory, such as Green’s functions and special functions (notes adapted from Zangwill)
- Numerical methods for solving E&M problems (notes adapted from Inan)
- Non-linear E&M, such as higher harmonics, scattering (light matter interaction), solitons and quantum optics (notes adapted from Boyd)
- Applications of E&M, such as lasers, THz radiation, antennas and detectors (notes adapted from Zangwill, Boyd, Orfanidis)
- Quantum optics (notes adapted from Boyd and Johansson)
- E&M and relativity (notes adapted from Zangwill)
Evaluation Scheme:
- Participation (10%) - In-class Student Response System and pre/post-test
- Quizzes (10%) - online quizzes on readings
- Assignments (20%)
- Midterm (15%)
- Projects (20%)
- Final (25%)