Pre-requisites: PHY-101,103,104,203,204

PART A

1. Electromagnetic Field Equations

• Maxwell’s modification of Ampere’s law
• Equation of continuity
• Maxwell’s equations
• Energy in electromagnetic fields
• Poynting vector

2. Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves

• Wave equations for E and H and their solutions
• Propagation of electromagnetic waves in free space
• Propagation of electromagnetic waves in isotropic non-conducting media
• Propagation of electromagnetic waves in conducting media
• Skin depth
• Propagation of electromagnetic waves in ionized gases

3. Waves in Bounded Regions

• Boundary conditions on the field vectors
• Reflection and refraction at the boundary of two non-conducting media (Normal & Oblique Incidence)
• Total internal reflection
• Metallic reflection
• Propagation between parallel conducting plates
• Wave guides
• Cavity resonators

PART B

4. Potentials, Fields and Radiation

• Scalar and vector potentials
• Retarded potentials
• Lienard-Wiechert potentials
• Field of a moving point charge
• Fields of an accelerated charge
• Electric dipole radiation
• Magnetic dipole radiation
• Radiation fields of charges moving with low velocities
• Radiation from an oscillating dipole
• Radiation from a half-wave antenna
• Radiation from a group of moving charges

5. Scattering

• Scattering cross section
• Scattering by a free electron
• Forced vibration
• Scattering by a bound electron
• Resonance scattering

6. Dispersion

• Normal and anomalous dispersion
• Drude-Lorentz harmonic oscillator model
• Resonance absorption by bound charges
• The Drude free electron theory
• Dispersion in gases
• Dispersion in liquids and solids