This is part of a course on special relativity and E&M radiations (University of Michigan, Physics 506, E&M II winter 2021). It is an intro-level graduate physics course. The materials roughly correspond to Chapter 8-14 in the book of Jackson.
The video of the lecture is available via YouTube with link provided below.
- L01 Reference frame for the speed of light
- L02 Stories behind the Lorentz Transformation
- L03 length contraction, time dilation, and casualty
- L04 scalars, vectors, tensors and rotations in 3D and 4D
- L05 Charge-current density vector and 4D vector potential
- L06 E and B in as a 4D tensor
- L07 Force and momentum as 4D vectors
- L08 Equation of motion in 4D and energy-momentum conservation and two-body decay
- L09 Compton scattering and Review on the principle of least action
- L10 Action from symmetry and the action of E&M fields
- L11 Equation of motion from dS=0
- L12 Motion of Point charge from symmetry principles
- L13 Noether’s theorem; charge, energy, momentum conservation
- L14 Conservation law’s in E&M
