Physics 442 - Summer 2016

Welcome to Physics 442!

Summer 2016

General Information

Instructor: John S. Colton
Email: john_colton@byu.edu
Office: N335 ESC
Homework help session: TBD

TA: Ty Beus, socialty@gmail.com, office hours will be in the underground lab under the skylight, MWF 2-4 pm

Quick Links

The following links are explained more below.

Syllabus: TBA
HW & Grades: //max.byu.edu

Syllabus

I will bring hardcopies of the syllabus to the first day of class. If you would like to download a pdf version of the syllabus, here is a pdf file: TBA

Homework and Grades

I will use the Physics Department's "Max" system to assign homework and keep track of grades: //max.byu.edu
Here's the "n_of_air.txt" file that you need for one HW problem: n_of_air.txt

Handouts

Here are handouts from various class periods.

Review: Parallel Equations for the Electric and Magnetic Fields.pdf
lecture 7 - Bessel functions.pdf
lecture 7 - TM Modes of a Cylindrical Waveguide.pdf
lecture 16 - Lorentz transformations Labview program: lorentz.exe. Requires you to install this Labview "run time engine": //www.ni.com/download/labview-run-time-engine-8.6.1/1244/en/.
lecture 19 - proof of field tensor transformation.nb
Final exam review - selected clicker questions from U of Colorado

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