Graduate Course Atlas - Spring Semester 2010

Content: Maxwell's Equations; Variational Principles; Conservation Laws; Green's Functions; Retarded Green's Functions; Radiation-Field and Source Viewpoints; Models of Antennas; Spectral Distribution of Radiation; Cerenkov Radiation; Synchrotron Radiation; Propagation in Dielectric Media; Waveguides; Scattering by Small Obstacles; Diffraction.

Prerequisite: A good working knowledge of multi-dimensional calculus as well as basic knowledge of differential equations in higher dimensions.

Text: Classical Electrodynamics, Schwinger, DeRaad, Milton, Tsai

Content: Entropy, temperature, free energy, statistical mechanics, Gibbs ensembles, partition function, ideal gas, Fermi and Bose gases, principles of classical thermodynamics, Carnot Theorem, phase transitions, and critical phenomena.

Prerequisite: PHYS 421 or equivalent

Text: Statistical Mechanics, Huang

Content: This seminar serves two purposes: (1) to set up and prepare to teach each week’s specific undergraduate laboratory experiment and (2) to read and discuss important studies that have come from the field of physics education research. In the short term, this survey of physics education research is meant to inform and improve the beginning teaching assistant’s effectiveness in the undergraduate classroom. In the long term, this seminar provides our graduate students with a significantly deeper teaching experience than the standard job as an introductory lab TA.

Audience: Required for physics graduate students, to be taken concurrently with the second semester of service as a teaching assistant.

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