Physics 382 : Spring 2019

Selected Topics: Electricity and Magnetism

Syllabus

Announcements


Week Beginning
 coverage
January 14:Week 01
Chapter 01
January 21
MLK Birthday

January 21: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

1.4 Curved Coordinates
January 28: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
February 04: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
February 11: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
February 18:Week 06 Test 01 Approximate





Chapter 03
Experiments in class
3.1.1 - 3.1.5 Laplace 1d, 2d, 3d , Ehrnshaw
February 25: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

March 04:Week 08
Field of Electric Dipole

Multipole Expansions




March 11:Week 09
Chapter 04

Polarizability

Linear Dielectrics

Electric  Fields in  linear Matter






March 18 - March 22
Spring Break
March 25:Week 10
Reminder: BC on V



Chapter 05

Faraday's Law Review

Ampere's Law Review

Different Versions of Biot Savert
April 01: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
April 08:Week 12 Connections between J B and A

Vector Potential Notes



Chapter 06

Electric  Fields in  linear Matter

Section 6.2.1 Magnetization
April 15:Week 13 Test 02 Due Approximate

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
April 19 - April 22
Easter Break
April 22:Week 14 Maxwell's Equations in Matter



Chapter 08

Poynting Vector

Maxwell Stress Tensor


April 29: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
May 03
Test 03 Due
May 03
Last Day of Classes