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This page presents two forms of lecture notes: notes by Professor Chen, and notes taken in-class by a student (presented courtesy of Tom Harris, and used with permission).
Lecture notes files.| Lec # | Topics | Professor Chen's Notes | Student's Notes | 
|---|
| Week 1 | 
| 1 | Review of Basic Thermal Radiation Concepts, Blackbody Radiation | (PDF)# | (PDF)# | 
| 2 | View Factor, Simple Radiative Transfer | (PDF)# | (PDF)# | 
| Week 2 | 
| 3 | Radiative Transfer in Enclosures | (PDF)# | (PDF)# | 
| 4 | Radiative Transfer in Enclosures (cont.) | (PDF)# | (PDF)# | 
| Week 3 | 
| 5 | EM Waves | (PDF)# | (PDF)# | 
| Week 4 | 
| 6 | EM Wave Modeling of Surfaces | (PDF)# | (PDF)# | 
| 7 | EM Wave Modeling of Thin Films | (PDF)# | (PDF)# | 
| Week 5 | 
| 8 | EM Wave Modeling of Particles | (PDF)# | (PDF)# | 
| 9 | Scattering Properties of Particulates | (PDF)# | (PDF)# | 
| Week 6 | 
| 10 | Dielectric Properties of Solid, Drude Model | (PDF)# | (PDF)# | 
| 11 | Lorentz Model | (PDF)# | (PDF)# | 
| Week 7 | 
| 12 | Radiative Properties of Gases | (PDF)# | (PDF)# | 
| 13 | Radiative Properties of Gases (cont.) | (PDF)# | (PDF)# | 
| Week 8 | 
| 14 | First Mid-term (In-class, Open Book) | (PDF)# | (PDF)# | 
| 15 | Equation of Radiative Transfer in Participating Media | (PDF)# | (PDF)# | 
| Week 9 | 
| 16 | Solution of ERT for One-dimensional Gray Media | (PDF)# | (PDF)# | 
| 17 | Discrete Ordinate Method | (PDF)# | (PDF)# | 
| Week 10 | 
| 18 | Spherical Harmonics Method | (PDF)# | (PDF)# | 
| Week 11 | 
| 19 | Approximate Solutions | (PDF)# | (PDF)# | 
| 20 | Monte Carlo Simulation | (PDF)# | (PDF)# | 
| Week 12 | 
| 21 | Presentation and Discussion on Global Warming | (PDF)# | (PDF)# | 
| 22 | Near Field Thermal Radiation, Fluctuation-dissipation Theory | (PDF)# | (PDF)# | 
| Week 13 | 
| 23 | Near Field Thermal Radiation | (PDF)# | (PDF)# | 
| 24 | Solar Cells |  |  | 
| Week 14 | 
| 25 | Coherent Radiation Source, Lasers |  |  | 
| 26 | Laser Materials Interactions |  |  |