Calendar

The calendar for the course serves as a rough guide to the schedule used to cover the course topics.


	WEEK #				TOPICS


	1				Maxwell's Equations and the Lorentz Force Meaning of E, B, ρ, and j Theorems of Gauss and Stokes, Inverse Square Law Static Potential Representation and Equations


	2				Maxwell's Equations and the Lorentz Force (continued) Green Function for Statics Calculations of Electric and Magnetic Field Configurations Dipoles


	3				Motion of Particles in Static EM Fields Orbits. Magnetic and Electrostatic Spectrometers Particle Accelerators Particle Beam Focussing [Dipoles and Precession?]


	4				Field Dynamics, Energy, and Momentum Poynting's Theorem Potentials for Time Varying Fields Retarded Potential Green Function and Fields


	5				Field Dynamics, Energy, and Momentum (continued) Inductance and Energy Self Force of Magnets


	6				Plane Wave Solutions of Maxwell's Equations Boundary Conditions Reflection Refraction


	7				Radiation by Moving Charges Lienard-Wiechert Potentials Radiation Term Synchrotron Radiation. Thomson Scattering Quantization and Compton Scattering


	8				Radiation and Atomic Transitions Photoionization


	9				Collisions of Charged Particles Classical Coulomb Collisions Collisions with Classical Oscillators Classical Energy Loss due to Atomic Collisions


	10				Collisions of Charged Particles (continued) Quantum Effects. Bethe-Bloch Formula Effects of Surrounding Medium Scattering from Nuclei


	11				Bremsstrahlung


	12				Radiation Shielding Applications

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