{"id":167,"date":"2026-01-02T19:28:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonsforlife\/?page_id=167"},"modified":"2026-08-14T14:55:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:55:32","slug":"lecture-notes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonsforlife\/lecture-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lectures notes are below for some of the course I teach or have taught. These are not always up to date, so current students should always use the versions on Moodle.<\/p>\n<h2>Special Relativity<\/h2>\n<p>Notes for lectures I give as part of Stage 1 PHYS3210\u00a0<i>Mechanics and Relativity<\/i>\u00a0in the School of Physics &amp; Astronomy, University of Kent. Last taught in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>All sections can be found in a <a href=\"http:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notesecture_notes\/special_relativity\/special_relativity_notes.pdf\">single PDF<\/a>, or individual HTML pages are below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/special_relativity\/ch1.html\">Section 1: Galilean Relativity and Ether<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/special_relativity\/ch2.html\">Section 2: Lorentz Transformations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/special_relativity\/ch3.html\">Section 3: Time Dilation and Length Contractions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/special_relativity\/ch4.html\">Section 4: Spacetime and Relativity of Simultaneity<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/special_relativity\/ch5.html\">Section 5: Relativistic Doppler Effect<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/special_relativity\/ch6.html\">Section 6: Relativistic Velocity Transformations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/special_relativity\/ch7.html\">Section 7: Relativistic Momentum<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/special_relativity\/ch8.html\">Section 8: Relativistic Energy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/intro_light\/index.html\">Introduction to Light<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Notes for lectures I gave as part of Stage 1 PHYS3220\u00a0<i>Waves and Fields<\/i>\u00a0in the School of Physics &amp; Astronomy, University of Kent. Last taught in 2022.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/intro_light\/ch1.html\">Section 1: Light as a Wave<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/intro_light\/ch2.html\">Section 2: Geometrical Optics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/intro_light\/ch3.html\">Section 3: Optical Instruments<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Electric and Magnetic Fields and Waves<\/h2>\n<p>Notes for lectures I gave as part of Stage 1 PHYS3220\u00a0<i>Waves and Fields<\/i>\u00a0in the School of Physics &amp; Astronomy, University of Kent. Last taught in 2022.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/electric_magnetic\/waves.html\">Introduction to Waves<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/electric_magnetic\/vectors_review.html\">Review of Vectors<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/electric_magnetic\/ch1.html\">EM Section 1: Charge and Coulomb&#8217;s Law<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/electric_magnetic\/ch2.html\">EM Section 2: Electric Field<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/electric_magnetic\/ch3.html\">EM Section 3: Electric Potential<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/electric_magnetic\/ch4.html\">EM Section 4: Conductors<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/electric_magnetic\/ch5.html\">EM Section 5: Magnetic Fields<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/electric_magnetic\/ch6.html\">EM Section 6: Electromagnetic waves<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Electromagnetism<\/h2>\n<p>Notes for lectures I gave as part of Stage 2 PHYS5013 <i>Electromagnetism<\/i> in Physics &amp; Astronomy, University of Kent. These notes only cover the first half of the course; the remainder on induction, wave equation and relativity are taught by another academic. Last taught in 2026.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Section 1. Maths Preliminaries [<a href=\"http:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/electromagnetism\/em_maths.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Section 2. Electric Field [<a href=\"mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/electromagnetism\/electric_field.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Section 3. Gauss&#8217;s Law [<a href=\"http:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/electromagnetism\/gauss.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Section 4. Electric Potential [<a href=\"http:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/electromagnetism\/potential.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Section 5. Laplace and Poisson [<a href=\"mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/electromagnetism\/laplace_poisson.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Section 6. Electric Dipoles [<a href=\"http:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/electromagnetism\/dipoles.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Section 7. Dielectrics [<a href=\"http:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/electromagnetism\/dielectrics.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Section 8. Magnetic Fields [<a href=\"http:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/electromagnetism\/magnetic_fields.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Section 9. Magnetisation [<a href=\"http:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/electromagnetism\/magnetisation.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Appendix. Vectors Review [<a href=\"http:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/electromagnetism\/vectors_review.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Appendix. Curvilinear Co-ordinates[<a href=\"http:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/electromagnetism\/curvilinear_reference.pdf\">PDF<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Nuclear Physics<\/h2>\n<p>Notes for lectures I now give as part of Stage 3 PHYS6013\u00a0<i>Condensed Matter Physics<\/i>\u00a0module for the Physics &amp; Astronomy undergraduate degree programmes at the University of Kent (and formerly as part of PHYS6660 Nuclear and Particle Physics). Last taught in 2025.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/nuclear_physics\/nuclear_1_properties.html\">Lecture 1: Nuclear Properties<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/nuclear_physics\/nuclear_2_binding_force.html\">Lecture 2: Binding Force<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/nuclear_physics\/nuclear_3_deuteron.html\">Lecture 3: Deuteron<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/nuclear_physics\/nuclear_4_shell.html\">Lecture 4: Shell Model<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/nuclear_physics\/nuclear_5_alpha_decay.html\">Lecture 5: Alpha Decay<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/nuclear_physics\/nuclear_6_beta_gamma_decay.html\">Lecture 6: Beta and Gemma Decay<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/nuclear_physics\/nuclear_7_fission.html\">Lecture 7: Fission<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/nuclear_physics\/nuclear_8_fusion.html\">Lecture 8:Fusion<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Introduction to Microscopy<\/h2>\n<p>Notes for lectures I gave as a part of PHYS8000\u00a0<i>Biomedical Optics<\/i>\u00a0in School of Physics &amp; Astronomy, University of Kent. Last taught in 2021.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/intro_microscopy\/lecture1.html\">Lecture 1: Principles of Microscopy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/intro_microscopy\/lecture2.html\">Lecture 2: Lateral Resolution<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/intro_microscopy\/lecture3.html\">Lecture 3: Optical Sectioning<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/intro_microscopy\/lecture4.html\">Lecture 4: Phase Microscopy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Medical Physics<\/h2>\n<p>Notes for lectures I give as a part of PHYS6330\u00a0<i>Medical Physics<\/i>\u00a0in School of Physics &amp; Astronomy, University of Kent. Last taught in 2024.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikehugheskent.github.io\/lecture_notes\/medical_physics\/nuclear_medicine_physics.html\">Nuclear Medicine Physics<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lectures notes are below for some of the course I teach or have taught. 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