Semester: Fall 2012
Prof. Feng Wang
Section 1 – Mon 1-2 pm – 385 LeConte
Section 2 – Tue 12-1 pm – 55 Evans
Mai’s office hour: Monday 12-1 pm – 463 Birge and by appointment
Useful resources:
Introduction to Optics by Germain Chartier (book)
Fundamental of Photonics by Saleh and Teich (book)
Special Relativity and Electromagnetism – Math 489 (TAMU) – Spring 2008
Special Relativity Q&As by John F. Hawley
Weekly discussion notes:
Week 2: Review Fourier Transform – chapter 13 in Chartier
Week 3: Problem 7.3(a) and 7.4(a) from Jackson
Week 10: problems from Saleh & Teich
Homework sets and solutions:
Set 4: problems – solutions
Set 5: problems – solutions
Set 6: problems – solutions
Set 7: problems – solutions
Set 8: problems – solutions
Set 9: problems – solutions
Set 10: problems – solutions
Midterm 1
exam questions and solutions
Midterm 2
review problems & solutions from various sources
Midterm 2 solutions
Final
Practice problems – solutions
Material from Spring 2012 – class taught by Prof. Christopher McKee
Week 2
Week 3 – Solutions
Week 4: Problems 109, 111-113 in the Physics Archive
Week 6: midterm review problems – Solutions
Week 8: Problems 14.2, 16 & 22 from Pedrottis – Solutions
Week 9: Problems 15.15 & 15.23 from Pedrottis
Week 10: Summary of Chapters 6 & 7, Pedrottis.
Final review problems
-*- Midterm exam (with solutions)
-*- Final exam and its solutions
