Physics 541, 573, 611, and 671
Spring 2009 Semester
Dr. Christian Parigger
Dr. Parigger is located at UTSI in Tullahoma, Tennessee.
PHYS 541 ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY (3)
Review of electrostatics, magnetostatics, and quasi-static problems; Maxwell's field equations and their solutions in dielectric and conducting media; electrodynamics and relativity retarded potentials and gauge transformations, radiation produced by accelerating charges.
TEXT: Greiner, Classical Electrodynamics, Springer 1998; and other classical references, e.g., Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics, 3-rd ed, 1998, Hartemann, High Field Electrodynamics, CRC Press, 2002; and on-line references, e.g., Bo Thide, Classical Electrodynamics, http://www.plasma.uu.se/CED/Book/, 2008,
PHYS 573 NUMERICAL METHODS IN PHYSICS (3)
Numerical methods for solution of physical problems, use of digital computers, analysis of errors.
Prerequisite: 571 or consent of instructor.
COMMENT: This is a course recognized for the new interdisciplinary graduate minor program in computational science: http://igmcs.utk.edu
TEXT: Survey of Computational Physics; Rubin Landau et al.; Princeton, (to appear in Summer 2008); Numerical Recipes, The Art of Scientific Computing; THIRD EDITION; W. H. Press et al., ISBN 978-0521-88068-8, (online version January 2008); and selected other references and example codes, e.g., Schmid et al, Theoretical Physics on the Personal Computer, Springer, 1990, including references to computer languages such as FORTRAN, C, C++, Java, and/or implementations of software packages/libraries. Focus of 573 will be the former sections of the Landau et al book (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8704.html) and the Num. Recipes book.
PHYS 611 ADVANCED QUANTUM MECHANICS AND FIELD THEORY (3)
Survey of problems and methods. Topics of current interest. Comment(s): Intended for all graduate students.
TEXT: Advanced books on Quantum Mechanics including Schwabl; Advanced Quantum Mechanics, Third Edition; Springer 2005; Schwabl, Quantum Mechanics, 4th edition, Springer 2007 and classic references such as Bransden and Joachain; Physics of Atoms and Molecules; Benjamin Cummings; 2003 (2nd Edition); and/or Sakurai and Cohen Tannoudji, and on-line references, including references to Quantum Electrodynamics.
PHYS 671 ADVANCED SOLID STATE PHYSICS (3)
Survey of research problems and methods. Topics of current interest. Comment(s): Intended for all graduate students.
TEXT: Electrical Transport in Nanoscale Systems; Massimiliano Di Ventra; Cambridge 2008; and classic Solid State Physics references, e.g. Kittel, Solid State Physics, 8th ed, Wiley 2005, including references to sections of Greiner, Quantum Electrodynamics, Springer 2003, and on-line references.