Structure
The electrodynamics section will collect the parts of classical field theory that keep reappearing in optics, microwave engineering, condensed matter, and quantum-device measurement.
Chapter Map
- Faraday’s law of induction
- Displacement current and Maxwell equations
- Macroscopic Maxwell equations
- Poynting’s theorem and conservation laws
- Plane waves in a uniform medium
- Energy and momentum of general wave solutions
- Waves across two media and Fresnel equations
- Waves incident on conducting media
- Fields of localized time-dependent sources
- Radiation fields of localized oscillating sources
Topics To Expand
- SI versus Gaussian/cgs conventions
- Gauge potentials
- Green functions
- Waveguides and resonators
- Input-output conventions used in microwave quantum devices