Transcript Thought for the Day

Thought for the Day
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Additional intro material
I’ve posted on the course website an
additional PowerPoint series: a survey
of the electromagnetic spectrum
it shows and talks about all kinds of
‘light’, from radio to gamma rays
it’s show-and-tell style, a bit long for
class but quite interesting
please look at it in the next week
Problem Set #1
will go out by email all ROSI-registered
emails
wil be posted on website:
www.physics.utoronto.ca/~phy485/ModOpt
due Tuesday 2 October
Study groups
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please email me LIKE THIS:
 Subject: JKL PHY485 Study
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to those who email me, I’ll send the
whole list of email addresses of interested
people (circulate your addresses)
feel free to organize at end of class, those
who wish still to join in
Today…
waves, linearity of wave equation
review of Maxwell’s
review of Maxwell’s equations in media
wave equation in dielectric and conducting
media
dispersion relation for plane waves
complex dielectric function, index of refraction
Lorentz model for dielectric function