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• Syllabus
• Modified Schedule
  

• Lecture Notes
• 01.  Introduction
• 02.  Malus and Polarization
• 03.  Arago and Biot
• 04.  Fresnel's Ray Theory of Diffraction
• 05.  Huygens's Principle
  
• 06.  The Wave Theory
• 07.  Fresnel's Unification
• 08.  Ampère and Faraday
• 09.  Fields and Lines of Force
  
• 10.  Maxwell
• 11.  FitzGerald and Lodge
• 12.  Heaviside and Ether Models
• 13.  Maxwell's Equations and EM Waves
• 14.  The Maxwellian Heyday
• 15.  The Advent of the Electron
• 16.  Electrodynamics and Special Relativity
• 17.  Quantum Theory and the Electromagnetic Worldview
• 18.  The Light Quantum Hypothesis
  

• Studyguide Questions
• 01. Buchwald Chapters 1-2
• 02. Buchwald Chapters 3-5
• 03. Buchwald Chapters 6-9
• 04. Buchwald Chapters 10-12
• 05. Darrigol Chapters 1, 3, 4
• 06. Hunt Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4
• 07. Hunt Chapters 5, 6, 7
• 08. Hunt Chapters 8, 9
• 09. Darrigol (2006)
  

• Paper Topics
• Paper #1 (due Tues Oct 7)
  
• Paper #2 (due Tues Dec 2)
  

• Paper Guidelines