Prof. S. Errede's UIUC Physics 436: Lecture Notes, Handouts, Etc. - Fall Semester, 2011
All Lecture Notes, Hand-Outs, etc. are in Adobe PDF Format
General Orientational Information, A Brief History of Electromagnetism...
Electrodynamics:
Electromagnetic Waves
Potentials and Fields
Electromagnetic Radiation
Electrodynamics and Relativity
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Lecture Notes 15: Electrodynamics and Relativity, Time Dialation, Lorentz Contraction, Simultaneity, Lorentz Transformations, Einstein's Velocity Addition Rule
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Lecture Notes 16: Structure of Spacetime, 4-Vectors, 4-Vector Scalar Products, Invariant Intervals, Minkowski Space-Time Diagrams
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Space-Time Diagram for Galilean Transform of World Line
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Space-Time Diagram for Lorentz Transform of World Line
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Lecture Notes 17: Proper Time, Proper Velocity, The Energy-Momentum 4-Vector, Relativistic Kinematics, Elastic/Inelastic Collisions, Compton Scattering
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Lecture Notes 18: Relativistic Electrodynamics
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Lecture Notes 18.5: Lorentz Transformation of EM Fields, the EM Field Tensor
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Lecture Notes 18.75: The Relativistic Stress Tensor
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Lecture Notes 19: Relativistic Electrodynamics (Continued), Relativistic Form of Maxwell's Equations, Minkowski Force on an Electric Charge, the 4-Potential A_mu, Relativistic Gauge Invariance
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Lecture Notes 20: Relativistic Electrodynamics of Moving Macroscopic Media
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Lecture Notes 21: More on Gauge Invariance, Why Photon Mass = 0, "Universal"/Common Aspects of Fundamental Forces
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