Electromagnetic Theory II (PHYS6347)

Spring 2025

Prof. Jeff Dror

jeffdror@ufl.edu

This course takes place in person Monday-Wednesday-Friday during the 7th Period (1:55-2:40) in NPB 1220. It carries 3 credits and entails 3 contact hours. Prerequisites: Electromagnetism I (6346).

Office hours will take place on Mondays from 1:00 PM - 1:50, 3:00 - 3:50 PM in my office (NPB 2079).

In this graduate-level course, we will cover advanced topics in electromagnetism, loosely based on chapters 8-14 in the Classical Electromagnetism text by J.D. Jackson. Additional resources are available on the Resources page. Lecture notes are available on the Lecture Notes page.

This course will be conducted in person, but we will use this website for everything other than the actual class meetings, so it is essential that you familiarize yourself with this site as soon as possible.

Additional details on the course are provided in the Course Overview and Policies page, and the List of Graded Work. All assignments will be distributed and submitted via the Assignments tab. You will be able to check your grades via the Grades tab, although I do recommend caution if trying to calculate an overall "average-so-far" grade via Canvas. I will post discussion topics periodically on the Discussions tab.

The required textbook for this course is Classical Electromagnetism by J.D. Jackson 3rd Edition. This is a classic textbook on the subject that covers an extensive number of graduate-level topics in electromagnetism.

This course will cover advanced topics in electromagnetism. We will cover:

Electromagnetism within conducting surfaces (waveguides and resonant cavities)
Radiating systems and multipole expansion
Scattering and diffraction
Special relativity and its role in electromagnetism
Energy loss of charged particles
Accelerating charged particles