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1) My lecture notes. Theres are "chatty" summaries following (closely but not exactly) the text.
It's an alternative, but not a replacement, for your book. tr>

Week 1 (review of 3310)
(Typo on page 3320-10, near top, I put a vector over the V in V(infinity). Oops! V is a scalar)
(Typo on page 3320-18, near bottom, had J but meant I in Ampere's law)

Ch 7, part 1 (through Griffiths 7.2 )
Ch 7, part 2 (Supplement on RLC circuits and Phasors )
Fixed typo on p. 6, the standard trig identity for sin(a+b)=sina cosb + cosa sinb
Ch 7, part 3 (Griffiths 7.3, Ampere-Maxwell equation,
and Maxwell's full equations in matter )
Chapter 8: Conservation of charge, energy and momentum
Chapter 9, part 1 : Waves (review, and from Maxwell's equations)
Chapter 9, part 2 : Griffiths 9.2 (last bit) and 9.3, reflection and transmission

Chapter 9, part 3 : Griffiths 9.4, Absorption and dispersion. (The dispersion part, Notes p 9.52 on, I am going to skip)
Note that this means we will not be covering Griffiths 9.4.3 in much detail, nor 9.5, "waveguides" (at all!) in class. It's all interesting stuff - and of practical use mainly if you ever need to deal with lasers (9.4) or high frequency signaling (9.5) , but we'll be moving on to Chapter 10!
Prof Beale guest lectured on EM waves in matter - here are his lecture notes from that day.

Chapter 10 : Griffiths Ch 10, Time dependent potentials
Note that we're not covering (except qualitatively) section 10.2.2 or beyond in this chapter. (Moving on to Ch 11 next)

Chapter 11 : Griffiths Ch 11, Radiation.
Note that we're not covering (except qualitatively) sections 11.1.4 on, (except for Equation 11.70, which we will talk about, but not derive formally)

Chapter 12 : Relativity notes (all) (And, some relativity concept test powerpoints which I highly recommend for review, I won't re-teach all that Phys 2170 material, but it is assumed background. Feel free to ask questions about it!)

Let me know right away if you spot any more serious typos in the notes! Email Steven.Pollock at colorado.edu. Thanks!

2) Other faculty lecture notes: If you want an alternative perspective on the same material:

- Here are 3320 lecture notes from Prof. Kinney's class a few years ago. They follow the same text as us, but he tends to work out a bit more of the mathematical details

- Here is a set of 3320 lecture notes from Prof. Dubson. He writes very neatly and explains clearly :-)

3) Video lecture notes:

- Here are some short video captures from Prof. Pat Kohl, a former grad student from our PER group now teaching at the School of Mines. They follow a different textbook (so the order of topics is a little different than ours, and the emphasis is more on engineering applications) but they're very good. Many any are directly applicable to our course.

- I found some videos from Jonathon Gardner (who I do not know) - they track Griffith's sections (and are numbered accordingly, so pretty easy to find what you want) From what I've seen these are pretty good.

Also see our "Links" tab for more ideas, and let me know if you find other resources that seem worthwhile to add!