Friday, December 2, 2011

Notes on EM waves, radiation, etc

Here are some notes on radiation, EM waves in conductors and insulators, etc - the stuff we've been covering the last several lectures. They are rather long, and incomplete in places ... but they do cover some interesting things I didn't quite get time to go over in lecture.

The first part is deriving the radiated power by accelerating charges, and applying that to several systems (oscillating charges, circular motion, etc.). The second part is deriving the blackbody radiation, which we did not cover (you'll see this in PH253). The last part is EM waves in solids, complex conductivity and dielectric functions derived from a model of oscillating charges. An appendix shows how to derive B from E in a moving reference frame.

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