Physics 382 : Spring 2020

Selected Topics: Electricity and Magnetism

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Syllabus : Schedule

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Starting Wednesday April 1 2020

At 14:55 Wednesdays
and at 12:10 Thursdays

we will hold class (at the normal time).
Links to recorded classes will be provided below.

Week Beginning	coverage
January 13:Week 01	Chapter 01
January 20	MLK Birthday
January 20: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 27: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 03: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 10: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 17:Week 06
	Chapter 03
Experiments in class	3.1.1 - 3.1.5 Laplace 1d, 2d, 3d , Ehrnshaw
February 24: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
	Test 01 Due Approximate
March 02:Week 08	Field of Electric Dipole
	Multipole Expansions
March 09:Week 09	Chapter 04
Recording 1	Polarizability
Recording 2	Linear Dielectrics
	Electric  Fields in  linear Matter
	Program Problem 1 for test 2 [P:O]
March 16: Week 10	Reminder: BC on V
	Chapter 05
Recording	Faraday's Law Review
Recording	Ampere's Law Review
	Different Versions of Biot Savert
March 23 - March 27	Spring Break
March 30: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 06:Week 12	Connections between J B and A
	Vector Potential Notes
	Chapter 06
	Electric  Fields in  linear Matter
	Section 6.2.1 Magnetization
	Test 02 Due Approximate
April 10 - April 13	Easter Break
April 13: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
April 20:Week 14	Maxwell's Equations in Matter
Recording	Chapter 08
Recording	Poynting Vector
Recording	Maxwell Stress Tensor
April 27:Week 15	Chapter 09
	1-Dimensional waves
	EM waves
	EM monochromatic plane waves
	TEM waves in matter
Recording	Non-normal incidence of TEM waves
	Reflection at a conducting surface
	Guided Waves
	Additional topics
May 01	Test 03 Due
May 01	Last Day of Classes