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Fall 2007

 

Homework

 

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Due Date

Problems

Remarks

Thursday, December 20

Final problem set

 

Thursday, December 6, 2007

Problem set 3

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Text book

5.9 Biot-Savart Law on different wires

5.14 thick slab, Ampere’s law

5.19 copper wires

5.29 B field inside rotating uniformly charged sphere

 

solutions

Thursday

November 15, 2007

Chapter handout, problem 5-3: trajectory in B and E;

Book 5.4: square loop in B(z)

Book 5.6: phonograph

Book 5.8: B of square loop

 

solutions

example 5-3 notebook

Thursday, November 8, 2007

4.10 polarized sphere

 

solutions

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

3.27 Multipole expansion square of charge

3.31 dipole and charge

4.4 charge and polarizable atom

 

 

Thursday, October 25, 2007

 

Problem set 2

solution

 

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Class handout:

Problem 3.1e relaxation method

Book:

3.6 image charge problem: point charges above plane

3.9 image charge problem: line charges in neighborhood of conducting plane

3.10 image charge problem: point charges  in corner

 

 

solutions

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Textbook:

2.34

Energy of concentric shells with charge

2.36

Suface charges on conductor with cavities

2.39

capacitance of concentric cylinders

2.50

Given E, searching charge density

2.27

potential and field on the axis of a solid cylinder (warning: solution is not pretty – try to set the integral up correctly and solve in Mathematica. You can turn in the Mathematica notebook by e-mail)

 

solutions

Notebook for 2.27

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Textbook

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

 

 

solutions

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Problem Set 1

 

Text book 2.10 (flux through side of cube – there is a hard way and an easy way to solve this problem)

 

Text book 2.13 (field of long wire)

 

Problem set solutions

 

 

HW solutions

 

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Class handout 1-35 ()

Text book 1.44 (delta function)

Text book 1.62 (div, rot, delta)

Text book 1.48 (delta 3d)

Text book 2.4 (E square loop)

 

solutions

Thursday, September 13, 2007

 1.31, 1.28, 1.37, 1.53, 1.57 in textbook

solutions

Thursday, September 6, 2007

Vector algebra problems

1.13, 1.15, 1.18, 1.21 in textbook

1.3, 1.5, 1.7 in class handout

solutions

 

 

 

 

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