PHY 353 Additional Material

Handouts

1. Lecture 1 notes
   
   
2. Notes on tensors
   
   
3. Lecture 25 notes
   

Papers

1. Maxell, Displacement Current, and Symmetry
   
   
2. Electromagnetic momentum density and the Poynting vector in static fields, Johnson et al., 1994.
   
   
3. Why the speed of light is reduced in a transparent medium, James and Griffiths, 1992.
   
   
4. Faster-than-c propgation of light:
   
   1. Faster than a speeding photon, Marangos, 2000.
      
   2. Gain-assisted superluminal light propagation, Wang et al., 2000
      
   3. Signal velocity, causality, and quantum noise, Kuzmich et al., 2001
   4. Dispersionless, highly superluminal propagation in a medium with a gain doublet, Steinberg and Chiao, 1994.
      

Web Demos

1. Propagation of EM fields
   
   
2. Polarization
   
   
3. Reflection and refraction: Huygen's pricnciple
   
   
4. 2-D simulation of propagation in material with different refractive indices
   
   
5. Group velocity
   
   
6. The Field of a moving point charge