Instructor: Philippe PIOT (piot[AT]nicadd.niu.edu), WWW

Office: La Tourette Hall rm 226

Office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00 am to 4:00 pm

Class meeting: Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30 am to 10:45 am

Location: La Tourette Hall 227

Textbook: J. D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics (Third edition), John Wiley & Sons (1998)

Last updated: August 27th, 2013

Radiation from moving charges, relativistics formulation of electrodynamics, collisions and scattering, multipole radiation, radiation damping and self forces. PRQ: PHYS 670.

Grading

Homework = 50 %, Midterm = 20 % Final = 30 %. Both Midterm and Final exam will be closed book examinations. The following scales are use for the final (letter) grades:
A : > 80%
A-: > 70%
B+: > 60%
B : > 50%
B-: > 40%
C : > 30%
F: < 30 %

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