Week 6 is reading week. There are no (mini-)lectures or interactive sessions this week. Please try to catch up with any of the lecture material, Examples Class and Additional Problems sheets.

IN PARTICULAR: in preparation for the rest of the course, please use Week 6 to complete a thorough revision of the lecture material on Special Relativity and Electrodynamics in Lorentz-covariant (Minkowski) notation from (Mini-)Lectures 10-13. We shall be using this notation extensively in the rest of the course!

To this end, I would strongly suggest trying to practice using the Lorentz-covariant notation as much as you can. In particular, please make sure you have finished working through the exercises set during (Mini-)Lectures 10-13. In addition, I'd strongly recommend you make sure you have worked through the first couple of problems on the sheet for Examples Class 2 and the first couple of problems on the sheet Additional Problems 2

At a more elementary level remember there is also the Special Relativity Revision Exercise Sheet.

For more general revision of the earlier material, please try to work through as many of the other problems on the sheets: Examples Class 1: General Revision , Additional Problems 1: General Revision , plus questions 3 onwards on the sheet Additional Problems 2

For a concise summary of the material covered at this stage of the course you may find it helpful to look through the first 11.5 pages of my current working version of the complete Course Summary. However, please be aware that I shall be making some changes to the lecture material and the order in which it is presented. I shall be making updates to this document as we progress through the course. N.B. This document is intended to provide a very concise summary of the main results. It is NOT a textbook! For recommended text books see the list given in the course reading list, as well as the week-by-week web-pages for more specific reading recommendations.

The potentials and fields produced by a point charge moving with constant velocity

The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume 2: Chapter 26.

For a really instructive alternative derivation of the potentials produced by a point charge moving with constant velocity from the point of view of retarded time see: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume 2: Chapters 21.6.

J.D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics: Chapter 11.10.

N.B. Many texts treat the problem of a point charge moving with constant velocity from the perspective of the so-called "Lienard-Wiechert" potentials. We'll discuss these potentials in a few lectures' time in preparation for radiation, but if you'd like to take a look at this formulation you might try:

D.J. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics: Chapter 10.3. (N.B. if in your edition of Griffiths, chapter 10 in entitled "Radiation" then try looking in chapter 12!)

M.A. Heald and J.B. Marion, Classical Electromagnetic Radiation (3rd edition): Chapter 8.1-8.5.