Resources for Physics 442

Dr John S. Colton

Downloads for HW problems

Here are some files you will need for some HW problems.

• n-of-air.txt
• besselprimezeroes.nb - Mathematica code to generate zeroes of the Bessel derivative functions (open, then copy and paste into your own notebook)
• graphical-velocity-transformation.pdf - Graph paper you will need for the "graphical Lorentz transformation" HW problem

Handouts

Here are some handouts I have prepared to help clarify or add information on several selected topics.

From Physics 441:

• Griffiths-front-and-back-covers.pdf
• Parallel-Equations-for-the-Electric-and-Magnetic-Fields.pdf - List of most of the important equations in Phys 441, organized according to electric and magnetic field versions of similar equations

From Physics 442:

• Most-important-equations-of-Physics-442.pdf - List of the most important equations from all of 442
• Ohm-s-law.pdf (approx. lecture 1)
• Poynting-s-theorem.pdf (approx lecture 3)
• Complex-wave-number-index-of-refraction-and-relative-permittivity.pdf (approx lecture 10)
• Lorentz-oscillator-model.pdf - Lorentz oscillator model (approximately lecture 11)
• TE-modes-of-rectangular-waveguide.pdf (approximately lecture 13)
• Bessel-functions.pdf (approximately lecture 14)
• cylindrical-waveguides.pdf (approximately lecture 14)
• TM-Modes-of-a-Cylindrical-Waveguide.pdf (approximately lecture 14)
• lorentz-transformations.nb - Lorentz transformations Mathematica program (approximately lecture 31)
• Skew-Lines-for-Relativity.nb - Mathematica program demonstrating constant position and constant time lines (approximately lecture 34)
• magnetic-field-via-relativity.pdf (approximately lecture 27)
• proof-of-field-tensor-transformation.nb - Mathematica program to proof that the field tensor does in fact transform as a rank 2 tensor (approximately lecture 39)