Announcements

May 27: New lecture notes posted

May 26: HW7 posted, due May 31

May 19: Excerpt of models of antennas posted on Lectures

May 18: HW6 posted, due May 24

May 3: In-class midterm May 5th, class time and room

May 3: Electric and magnetic dipole radiation notes posted on Lectures

May 3: Take-home midterm issued today in class, due May 10 at the beginning of the class!

April 21: HW5 posted, due April 26

April 17: HW4 posted, due April 21

April 14: HW3 posted, due April 17

April 7: HW2 posted, due April 14

March 31: HW1 now due April 7

March 29: Welcome to 100C!

Homework

Homeworks due on the day specified below at the beginning of the class. There is no credit for late homeworks.

Solutions are posted on the TED course website.

Homeworks Spring 2016:

  1. Homework set 1: Griffiths 4th ed. 9.8, 9.9, 9.15 and 9.17. Due Thursday April 7th, 2016.
  2. Homework set 2: Due Thursday April 14, 2016.
    • Find the TE- and TM- reflection phase shifts, equations 6.2-11 and 6.2-12 in these pages from Saleh & Teich.
    • Reproduce and explain all features in the plots in figures 6.2-2, 6.2-3, 6.2-4, 6.2-5.
    • Why polarized sunglasses are supposed to be better? How should your polarized sunglasses be oriented to be useful?
    • Griffiths 9.20, 9.25
    • Read the chapter on optics of anisotropic media, available here.
  3. Homework set 3: Due Thursday April 21, 2016.
    • Griffiths 9.27 (b), 9.31, 9.32 (a)
  4. Homework set 4: Due Tuesday April 26, 2016.
    • Find the electric and magnetic fields for a coaxial waveguide.
    • Griffiths 10.4, 10.10
  5. Homework set 5: Due Tuesday May 3, 2016.
    • Prove that the retarded potentials are solutions of the inhomogeneos wave equation.
    • Griffiths 10.15, 10.20, 10.23
  6. Homework set 6: Due Tuesday May 24, 2016. Griffiths 11.6, 11.8 and 11.14.
  7. Homework set 7: Due Tuesday May 31, 2016. Griffths 11.20 (a) & (b) only, 12.41, 12.43, 12.44