8.07 - Electromagnetism II Fall 2012

Course Administrator: Prof. Alan Guth
Recitation Instructors: Prof. Min Chen

Lecture notes:

►  Lecture Notes #1: Vector Analysis, Wednesday, September 5, 2012.
►  Lecture Notes #2: Rotations in Index Notation, Friday, September 7, 2012.
►  Lecture Notes #3: Electrostatics, continued (Integral formulation of basic equations) Lecture 6, Monday, September 17, 2012.
►  Lecture Notes #4: Conductors: Surface Forces and Capacitance (Addendum to Lecture 7, Wednesday September 19, 2012, posted September 21, 2012).
►  Lecture Notes #5: Image Charge Method; Separation of Variables Lecture 9, Wednesday, September 26, 2012.
►  Lecture Notes #6: Separation of Variables in Spherical Coordinates Lecture 11, Monday, October 1, 2012. (These notes are superseded by Lecture Notes 9.)
►  Lecture Notes #7: A Spherical Shell of Charge with a Circular Hole (Addendum to Lecture 13, Friday October 5, 2012, posted October 8, 2012).
►  Lecture Notes #8: The Traceless Symmetric Tensor Expansion and Standard Spherical Harmonics (Addendum to Lecture 14, Wednesday October 10, 2012, posted October 11, 2012).
►  Lecture Notes #9: Traceless Symmetric Tensor Approach to Legendre Polynomials and Spherical Harmonics.Wednesday, October 17, 2012.
    ► For Historians: Lecture Notes #9 (Preliminary): Traceless Symmetric Tensor Approach to Legendre Polynomials and Spherical Harmonics.Sunday, October 14, 2012.
►  Lecture Notes #10: Magnetic Multipole Expansion and Magnetic Dipoles.Lecture 25, Wednesday, November 7, 2012.
►  Lecture Notes #11: Magnetic Dipoles. Lecture 26, Friday, November 9, 2012. Download Slides or 8.5x11 inch Pages. (Revised November 12, 2012: unwanted factors of I were removed from the equations at the bottom of p. 1 of the page version, or slide 2 of the slide version.)
    ► For Historians: Original version of Lecture Notes #11, as posted November 9, 2012. Download Slides or 8.5x11 inch Pages.
►  Lecture Notes #12: Reversed Cherenkov Radiation in Left-Handed Meta-material, by Prof. Min Chen. Lecture 29, Wednesday, November 21, 2012.
►  Lecture Notes #13: Flipping Photons Backward: Reversed Cherenkov Radiation Inspired by Metamaterials, by Hongsheng Chen and Min Chen. Article related to Lecture 29, Wednesday, November 21, 2012.
►  Lecture Notes #14: Electromagnetic Waves. Slides for Lecture 35, Friday, December 7, 2012. Download Slides or 4up 8.5x11 inch Pages.
►  Lecture Notes #15: Potentials and Fields. Slides for Lecture 36, Monday, December 10, 2012. Download Slides or 4up 8.5x11 inch Pages.
►  Lecture Notes #16: Radiation. Slides for Lecture 37, Wednesday, December 12, 2012. Download Slides or 4up 8.5x11 inch Pages.
►  Lecture Notes #17: 8.07 E&M Review on Waves, Potentials, and Radiation, by Prof. Min Chen, December 16, 2012.