Instructor:

• Professor Concha Gonzalez-Garcia,
  email concha@insti.physics.sunysb.edu , MT6-115A
  
  Special Office hours before final:
  
• Monday May 12th 11am-12:30pm, 1pm-4pm, and 5pm-7pm
• Tuesday May 13th 8am-12:30pm, 1pm-4pm
• Wednesday May 14th 11am-1pm
But please in any case let me know ahead of time by sending me an email.

Time:

• Tuesday and Thursday 11:30-12:50
• First Lecture: Tuesday Jan 28th, 2014
• This homepage: http://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/~concha/PHY302/phy302_S14.html

Text:

• D. J. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics, 3rd edition, Prentice Hall, 1999

Program :

1 Conservation laws in electrodynamics

2 Electromagnetic waves in vacuum

3 Electromagnetic waves in matter

4 Potential formulation of electrodynamics

5 Radiation of electromagnetic waves

6 Electrodynamics and special relativity

Material will be presented primarily in lectures and homework problems. Generally, students who attend the
lecture do better on exams and have overall better class experience. Thus, you should attend class, pay attention while there, and take notes over the material. You should plan on 2 - 3 hours of study outside of class for every lecture.

Problem Sets:

• Problem sets will be posted on Thurdays and it will be due in class next week Thursday.
• Late HW: in MT6-115A only (slide under the door, if closed), Not in Mailbox, Not to TA
• Late HW penalty: 20% per day, so that model solutions can be posted promptly
• You are expected to solve them on your own and the final calculations handed in must be your own work.
• Homework Assignment 1 [ link ] [ Solutions ]
• Homework Assignment 2 [ link ] [ Solutions ]
• Homework Assignment 3 [ link ] [ Solutions ]
• Homework Assignment 4 [ link ] [ Solutions ]
• Homework Assignment 5 [ link ] [ Solutions ]
• Homework Assignment 6 [ link ] [ Solutions ]
• Homework Assignment 7 [ link ] [ Solutions ]
• Homework Assignment 8 [ link ] [ Solutions ]
• Homework Assignment 9 [ link ] [ Solutions ]
• Homework Assignment 10 [ link ] [ Solutions ]

Exams:

Exams are closed book, except can bring 2 (two) handwritten pages

• Midterm Exam I: March 11th in class [ link ] [ Solutions ]
• Midterm Exam II: April 10th in class [ link ] [ Solutions ]
• Final Exam: May 14th, 5:30PM-8:30PM in class. The Final exam is comprehensive. [ link ] [ Solutions ]

Grades:

• Problem Sets (20%)
• Midterm Exams (20%)+(20%)
• Final Exam (40%)
There is no provision for doing extra or outside work to improve your grade

Special Notes:

Any excuses (medical or otherwise) are to be documented, and discussed with the instructors in a timely manner. If you have a physical, psychological, medical or learning disability that may impact on your ability to carry out assigned course work, we urge that you contact the staff in the Disabled Student Services office (DSS), Room 133 Humanities. DSS will review your concerns and determine, with you, what accommodations are necessary and appropriate. All information and documentation of disability is confidential.

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY Each student must pursue his or her academic goals honestly and be personally accountable for all submitted work. Representing another perso\ n?s qywork as your own is always wrong. Any suspected instance of academic dishonesty will be reported to the Academic Judiciary. For more comprehensive information on academic integrity, including categories of academic dishonesty, please refer to the academic judiciary website at http://www.stonybrook.edu/uaa/academicjudiciary/