College Resources

12. Electromagnetic Waves

Chapters (Serway & Jewett, Physics 9ed):

  • 34.1 Displacement Current and the General Form of Ampère’s Law
  • 34.2 Maxwell’s Equations and Hertz’s Discoveries
  • 34.3 Plane Electromagnetic Waves
  • 34.4 Energy Carried by Electromagnetic Waves
  • 34.5 Momentum and Radiation Pressure
  • 34.6 Production of Electromagnetic Waves by an Antenna
  • 34.7 The Spectrum of Electromagnetic Waves

Videos:

  • Yale: Physics II, Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Waves I
  • Yale: Physics II, Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Waves II
  • MIT: 8.02x, Traveling Waves, Standing Waves, Musical Instruments
  • MIT: 8.02x, Destructive Resonance, Electromagnetic Waves, Speed of Light
  • MIT: 8.02x, Poynting Vector, Oscillating Charges, Polarization, Radiation Pressure
  • KhanAcademy: Electromagnetic waves

Optional Videos:

  • Lesics: Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Physics by Alexander FufaeV: The 4 Maxwell Equations, Integral and Differential Form
  • MIT: 8.02x, Magnetic Discplacement Current
  • MIT: 8.02x, Comparing the Displacement Current to the Conduction Current in a Wire
  • MIT: 8.02x, An Argument for the Displacement Current Term
  • MIT: 8.02x, EM Plane Waves - Poynting Vector - E-fields - B fields - Wavelength
  • MIT: 8.02x, Spherical EM Waves - Luminosity - Energy Flux
  • MIT: 8.02x, Radiation Pressure - Individual Photons - Momentum in photons
  • MIT: 8.02x, Radiation Pressure from the Sun
  • MIT: 8.02x, Sailing using Radiation Pressure
  • MIT: 8.02x, Standing Electromagnetic Waves