Electromagnetic waves and radiation. Mathematical tools developed as required. Two 90-minute lectures. Two 90-minute lectures, one class. Each course offers six different experiments from the advanced laboratory collection.
Lectures stress modern experimental methods and devices.
One lecture, one laboratory. Fall Mathematical methods and terminology that are essential for modem theoretical physics. These include some of the traditional techniques of mathematical analysis, but also more modern tools, such as group theory and differential geometry. Single-particle, fluid, and kinetic descriptions. Magnetic confinement, magnetohydrodynamic equilibria, waves, instabilities, diffusion, and heat flow.