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| | MSci Electromagnetism: Syllabus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | Scattering of a plane wave by a single slowly moving charged particle, total and differential scattering cross-sections, optical theorem, scattering from a medium with space-varying dielectric constant, scattering from an assemblage of polarizable particles, Rayleigh-Smoluchowski-Einstein theory of why the sky is blue - critical opalescence. |
 | | Lorentz transformations, charge and current density as a 4-vector, the potential 4-vector, tensors and invariants, the relativistic field tensor F, Lorentz transformation properties of current density and potential 4-vectors and of the free vacuum E and B fields, tensor form of Maxwell's equations, covariant formulation of energy and momentum theorems, energy-momentum tensor. |
 | | Lienard-Wiechert potentials for a moving charged particle derived from a delta-function source, fields for a uniformly moving charged particle in the non-relativistic and ultra-relativistic limits, radiation from accelerated charges, the cases of velocity and acceleration parallel and perpendicular, Larmor formula for radiated power, bremsstrahlung and synchrotron radiation as examples. |
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