Welcome to the 8.311 webpage,
Spring 2005, Electromagnetic Theory
Lectures: Tu, Tr, 9:30-11,
in Rm. 4-145
by Prof Leonid Levitov,
Office 12-112,
Telephone: x3-6817,
levitov@mit.edu,
Office hours: Tr, 3-4;
Recitations: Mo, 4-5:30,
in Rm. 4-153
by Mr Bas Overbosch,
Office 12-134C,
Telephone: x3-3753,
overbosc@mit.edu,
Office hours: Tue 2-3pm (in 12-134C);
Texts:
``Classical Electrodynamics,"
by Julian Schwinger, L L DeRaad Jr, K A Milton, W-Y Tsai,
Perseus Book, Reading, Massachusetts (1998)
``Classical Electrodynamics," by J D Jackson (John Wiley and Sons)
``Classical Theory of Fields," by L D Landau and E M Lifshitz (Pergamon Press, Oxford)
Problem sets:
weekly, 12 in total, due Tuesday 5:00 in 8.311 homework box, Rm. 4-339B;
Final exam:
May 12 (the last lecture), 1.5 hr long, closed book;
Grade:
problem sets 60%, final exam 40%
Use this LINK to check current homework grades
Problem Set #1:
postscript
pdf
due 2/8
Solution #1:
pdf
Problem 2b, Addendum pdf
Problem Set #2:
postscript
pdf
due 2/15
Solution #2:
pdf
Problem Set #3:
postscript
pdf
due 2/24
Solution #3:
pdf
Detailed solution: pdf
Problem Set #4:
postscript
pdf
due 3/1
Solution #4:
pdf
Detailed solution: pdf
Problem Set #5:
postscript
pdf
due 3/8
Solution #5:
pdf
Detailed solution: pdf
Problem Set #6:
postscript
pdf
due 3/15
Solution #6:
pdf
Detailed solution: pdf
Problem Set #7:
postscript
pdf
due 3/29
See selected references
on EM in media with negative refraction
Solution #7:
pdf
Detailed solution: pdf
Problem Set #8:
postscript
pdf
due 4/05
Solution #8:
Detailed solution: pdf
Problem Set #9:
postscript
pdf
due 4/12
Solution #9:
pdf
Problem Set #10:
postscript
pdf
due 4/21
Solution #10:
pdf
Problem Set #11:
postscript
pdf
due 4/26
Solution #11:
pdf
Problem Set #12:
postscript
pdf
due 5/03
Solution #12:
pdf
Sample of Final (2004):
postscript
pdf
Final 2004 Solution:
pdf
Final Exam on 05/12, in lecture, 9:30-11, closed book
Final Exam:
postscript
pdf
Final Exam Solution:
pdf
1.
Popular article by JB Pendry and DR Smith in Physics Today
(2004)
2. Possibility of negative refraction
debated
in Physics World (2002)
3. The original prediction and
review by Victor Veselago (1964)
4. Theory of Veselago `superlens' with perfect, subwavelength image reconstruction,
by JB Pendry (2000)
pdf
5. Study of diffraction in negative n material and crticism of Ref.[4],
by AL Pokrovsky and AL Efros (2002)
pdf
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Last modified: 01/30/04
Leonid Levitov
levitov@mit.edu