U.S. Particle Accelerator School
U.S. Particle Accelerator School
America's National School of Accelerator Science and Technology
Classical Mechanics and Electromagnetism for Beam Physics course
Sponsoring University:
Stanford University
Course:
Classical Mechanics and Electromagnetism for Beam Physics
Instructors:
Pisin Chen, SLAC and Clarence Cheng, Stanford University
Elementary mechanics of particle motion; conservation laws; Hamiltonian mechanics; Hamilton-Jacobi equation; canonical transformations; harmonic oscillators; Maxwell's equations of electricity and magnetism; motion of charged particles in electric and magnetic fields; classical radiation theory; Interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter. Prerequisites: calculus, college physics.