Course
Calendar Electromagnetism Fall 2009
Calendar subject to adjustments
throughout the semester.
SB is on maternity leave for 6
weeks, presumably starting on Sep 27.
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Date |
# |
Instr |
Topic |
Other Materials |
Homework due (at class time) |
Problem sets |
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Th 8-27 |
1 |
SB |
1.1 Vector
Algebra |
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Tu 9-1 |
2 |
SB |
1.2
Differential Calculus |
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Th 9-3 |
3 |
SB |
1.3
Integral Theorems |
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Book:1.13,
1.15, 1.18 Handout:
1.3, 1.5, 1.7-10 (all vector algebra and components) |
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Tu 9-8 |
4 |
SB |
1.3
Integral Theorems 1.4
Curvilinear Coordinates |
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Th 9-10 |
5 |
SB |
Curvilinear
coordinates delta
function |
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Book: 1.21
( Handout:
1.18 (curl grad) |
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Tu 9-15 |
6 |
SB |
2.1-2
Coulomb force and electric field |
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Problem set 1 issued |
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Th 9-17 |
7 |
SB |
2.2
–Electric field – Gauss law, examples 2.3
–Electric Potential |
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Handout:
1-36 Book:
1.37(spherical unit vectors), 1.44 (delta function), 1.62 (div, rot, delta),
1.48 (delta 3d), 2.4 (E square loop) |
Consultations
Thursday and Friday – please sign up at my office door Sci2315 |
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Tu 9-22 |
8 |
SB |
2.3 –
Electrostatic potential – examples, boundary conditions |
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Consultations
Monday and Tuesday – please sign up at my office door |
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Th 9-24 |
9 |
SB |
2.3 –
Electrostatic potential – examples, boundary conditions |
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Book: 2.10
(flux through side of cube – there is a hard way and an easy way to solve
this problem), 2.13 (field of long wire)
solutions |
Problem set 1 due |
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Tu 9-29 |
10 |
MSK |
2.4 Work
and energy 2.5
Conductors in Equilibrium |
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Th 10-1 |
11 |
MSK |
2.6
Surface charges and capacitance |
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Book: 2.26 (potential
difference cone), 2.30
(boundary conditions on cylinder) 2.31
(energy of point charge square) 2.46 (from
potential to field and charge distribution) |
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Tu 10-6 |
12 |
MSK |
3.1 Method of
Relaxation 3.2 Method
of Images |
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Th 10-8 |
13 |
MSK |
3.3 Separation
of Variables 3.4
Multipole Expansion |
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TBA |
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Tu 10-13 |
14 |
MSK |
3.5
Electric dipoles |
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Problem
set 2 issued |
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Th 10-15 |
15 |
MSK |
4.1 Polarization
Dipole Interaction |
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TBA |
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Th 10-22 |
16 |
MSK |
4.2
Electric Field of a Polarized Object |
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TBA |
Problem
set 2 due |
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Tu 10-27 |
17 |
MSK |
4.3
Electric Displacement |
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Th 10-29 |
18 |
MSK |
5.1
Magnetic force and charge in motion |
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TBA |
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Tu 11-3 |
19 |
MSK |
5.2
Current densities, Biot-Savart law |
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Th 11-5 |
20 |
MSK |
5.3
Divergence and Curl of B |
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TBA |
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Tu 11-10 |
21 |
SB |
Getting
back in touch 5.3
Divergence and Curl of B 5.4
Magnetic Vector Potential |
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Th 11-12 |
22 |
SB |
5.4
Magnetic Vector Potential |
Book
problems 5.4, 5.9,
5.11, 5.14 |
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Tu 11-17 |
23 |
SB |
5.5
Magnetostatic Boundary conditions 5.6
Magnetic Dipoles |
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Th 11-19 |
24 |
SB |
6.1
Magnetization 6.2 Field
of a magnetized object |
5.19
copper wires 5.23 A to
J 5.29 field
inside rotating sphere |
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Tu 11-24 |
25 |
SB |
6.3
Auxiliary Field 6.4
Susceptibility and permeability 7.1 Ohm’s
Law, motional EMF |
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Problem
set 3 due |
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Tu 12-1 |
26 |
SB |
7.2
Electromagnetic induction |
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Th 12-3 |
27 |
SB |
7.3
Maxwell’s Equations |
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5.58 mag
moment solid sphere 5.55
dipole in uniform field 5.61 thin
glass rod 6.6
magnetic materials 6.8 field
of magnetized cylinder 6.12
another cylinder 7.6 wire
loop in E field |
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Tu 12-8 |
28 |
SB |
8 Electromagnetic Waves |
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Final
problem set issued |
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Th 12-10 |
SB |
Review and
Summary |
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TBA |
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Final |
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12-16-09, 4 pm |
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Final
Problem set due |
