MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Science Handbook 1996

Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

Electrodynamics

Synopsis This unit will provide an advanced treatment of Maxwell's equations: Photon mass; Proca equation. Boundary value problems; numerical methods. Green's function method. Vector potential in quantum mechanics; Aharonov-Bohm effect. Gauge transformations. Poincaré transformations. Field tensor and its dual; energy-momentum tensor. Differential forms. Lagrangian density; the Maxwell field; symmetries and conservation laws. Electromagnetic waves; dispersion, Kramers-Kronig relations. Coherent and incoherent scattering. Goedicke's condition. For PHS4200 students, the last few lectures will address specific topics in applied physics, instrumentation and measurement.

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