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Prerequisites

PHY552A

 

Course Contents

Special relativity, Minkowski space and four vectors, concept of four velocity, four acceleration and higher rank tensors, relativistic formulation of electrodynamics, Maxwell equations in covariant form, gauge invariance and four potential, the action principle and electromagnetic energy momentum tensor. Linard Weichert potentials, radiation from an accelerated charge, Larmor formula, brems strahlung and synchrotron radiation, multi pole radiation, dispersion theory, radiative reaction, radiative damping, scattering by free charges; applications to waveguides, fibers and plasmas.

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