| WEEK | DAYS | LECTURE | TOPICS | TEXTBOOK | |
| week 1 | Mon 14-Jan | 1 | Maxwell equations before Maxwell: a review | Electrodynamics (Chapter 7) | |
| We16 | 2 | Review of electric and magnetic fields in general media | |||
| Fr 18 | 3 | Displacement vector and the Maxwell equations | |||
| week 2 | Mon 21-Jan | Martin Luther King Jr Day: No Classes | |||
| Wed 23 | 4 | Maxwell equations in media | |||
| Fr 25 | 5 | Poynting theorem and energy conservation | Conservation laws (Chapter 8) | ||
| week 3 | Mon 28-Jan | 6 | The maxwell stress tensor | ||
| We 30 | 7 | Conservation of linear and angular momentum | |||
| Fr 1 | 8 | Examples of conservation laws | |||
| week 4 | Mon 4-Feb | 9 | General review of waves | Electromagnetic waves (Chapter 9) | |
| We 6 | 10 | Reflection and transmission; Polarization | |||
| Fr 8 | 11 | Electromagnetic waves | |||
| week 5 | Mon 11-Feb | 12 | Energy and momentum | ||
| We 13 | 13 | Electromagnetic waves in media | |||
| Fr 15 | 14 | Transmission of electromagnetic waves I | |||
| week 6 | Mon 18-Feb | 15 | Transmission of electromagnetic waves II | ||
| We 20 | 16 | Electromagnetic waves in conductors | |||
| Fr 22 | 17 | Dynamic dielectric constant | |||
| week 7 | Mon 25-Feb | 18 | Wave guides | ||
| We 27 | 19 | Transmission lines | |||
| Fr 29 | 20 | Scalar and vector potentials and their equations. Gauge fixing. | Potentials and fields (Chapter 10) | ||
| week 8 | Mo 3-March | 21 | The Bohm-Aharonov experiment | ||
| We 5 | 22 | Retarded potentials | |||
| Fr 7 | 23 | Liennard-Wiechert potentials | |||
| week 9 | Mo 10-March | E | 1st Midterm (Includes lectures 1-17) | ||
| We 12 | 24 | Field of a moving charge | |||
| Fr 14 | 25 | Electric and magnetic fields of a moving charge | |||
| week 10 | Mo 17-March | SPRING BREAK: No classes | |||
| We 19 | SPRING BREAK: No classes | ||||
| Fr 21 | SPRING BREAK: No classes | ||||
| week 11 | Mon 24-March | 26 | Catch up lecture on fields | ||
| We 26 | 27 | Electric dipole radiation | Radiation (Chapter 11) | ||
| Fr 28 | 28 | Field created by a radiating dipole | |||
| week 12 | Mo 31-March | 29 | Radiation of a magnetic dipole | ||
| We 2 | 30 | Field of a magnetic dipole | |||
| Fr 4 | 31 | Field of a moving particle: the Larmor formula | |||
| week 13 | Mo 7 | 32 | The Thomson problem | ||
| We 9 | 33 | How an antena works | |||
| Fr 11 | E | 2nd Midterm (includes lectures 18-31) | |||
| Mon 14-Apr | 34 | Abraham-Lorenz formula and radiation reaction | |||
| We 16 | 35 | Problems in the classical theory of radiation | |||
| Fr 18 | 36 | The Bohr atom and radiation | |||
| week 14 | Mon 21-Apr | 37 | catch-up lecture on radiation | ||
| We 23 | 38 | Theory of relativity: The problems of Galilean invariance | Electrodynamics and Relativity (Chapter 12) | ||
| Fr 25 | 39 | Lorentz transformations | |||
| week 15 | Mon 28-Apr | 40 | Einstein theory of relativity | ||
| We 30 | 41 | Relativistic electrodynamics | |||
| Fr 2-May | 42 | Field theoretical formulation of electrodynamics | |||