Lectures on Magnetism ( PHY331: Advanced Electrodynamics and Magnetism )

 

Prof David Lidzey

Contact details

Phone: 0114 22 23501
Room: D18

email: d.g.lidzey@sheffield.ac.uk

SYLLABUS

• Lecture 1: General introduction and revision, dipoles, magneticmaterials, magnetisation, susceptibility.
• Lecture 2: Magnetic dipole moment of a circulating electron. 
• Lecture 3: Langevin’s theory of diamagnetism. 
• Lecture 4: Classical treatment of paramagnetic susceptibility. 
• Lecture 5: Magnetic dipole moment of an atom via Hund’s Rules. 
• Lecture 6: Quantum theory of paramagnetism. 
• Lecture 7: Domain theory of ferromagnetism. Antiferromagnets. 
• Lecture 8: Spontaneous magnetisation and the exchange interaction. 
• Lecture 9: Weiss molecular field model of ferromagnetism. 
• Lecture 10: Paramagnetic susceptibility of free electrons (Pauliparamagnetism).