Physics 382 : Fall 2023

Selected Topics: Electricity and Magnetism

Syllabus : Lab Safety Regulations

Announcements

Week Beginning
 coverage
August 21:Week 01
Chapter 01

August 28:week 02
Useful Page
pseudovector example
1.1.4 position, displacement, separation vectors

1,1,5 how vectors transform
Read 1.2.5 - 1.2.7
1.2.1 -1.2.4 Differential Calculus

1.3.1 Integral Calculus

1.3.2 - 1.3.6 Fundamental Theorems
September 04
Labor Day

1.4 Curved Coordinates
September 04:Week 03 1-D Delta Function

3-D Delta Function

1.6 Vector Fields: Helmholtz Theorem







Chapter 02

2.1.1 - 2.1.3 Electrostatics
September 11:Week 04 2.1.4 Continuous Charge Distributions

2.2.1 - 2.2.2 Divergence of E and Gauss's Law

Examples of Gauss' Law

2.2.4 The Curl of E

2.3.1 The electric potential
September 18:Week 05 Example2.6

2.3.3-2.3.4 Poisson and Laplace Equations

2.3.5-Electrostatic Boundary Conditions

2.4.2 - 2.4.5: Energy and conductors

2.5.1 - 2.5.4 Induced Q, forces, capacitances
September 25:Week 06





Chapter 03
Experiments in class
3.1.1 - 3.1.5 Laplace 1d, 2d, 3d , Ehrnshaw
October 02:Week 07 Method of Images

Child Langmuir Law
Examples 1 2 3
Laplace's Equation examples

3.3.2-Spherical Laplace Solutions

Example 3.5

Higher dimensional Laplace Solutions
October 03
Test 01 Due Approximate
October 07 - October 10
Fall Break

October 16:Week 08
Field of Electric Dipole

Multipole Expansions


October 19
Service Day
October 23:Week 09
Chapter 04

Polarizability

Linear Dielectrics

Electric  Fields in  linear Matter



Program Problem 1 for test 2 [P:O]
October 30: Week 10
Reminder: BC on V



Chapter 05

Faraday's Law Review

Ampere's Law Review

Different Versions of Biot Savert
November 06:Week 11 B from a wire segment

B from a spinning disk of charge

B from a finite solenoid

more on currents

B from a planar spiral at center
November 13:Week 12 Connections between J B and A

Vector Potential Notes



Chapter 06

Electric  Fields in  linear Matter

Section 6.2.1 Magnetization
T November 07
Test 02 Due Approximate
November 20:Week 13

Continuity Equation



Chapter 07

Ohm's Law

Motional emf and Faraday's Law

Example 7.4

Example 7.8

Inductance and Energy density

Maxwell's Equations before Maxwell

Maxwell's Equations in Matter


November 22-26
Thanksgiving
November 27:Week 14 Chapter 08

Poynting Vector

Maxwell Stress Tensor


December 04: Week 15
 Chapter 09

1-Dimensional waves

EM waves

EM monochromatic plane waves

TEM waves in matter

Non-normal incidence of TEM waves

Reflection at a conducting surface

Guided Waves

Additional topics
F December 08
Test 03 Due
December 08
Last Day of Classes