Physics 382 : Spring 2021 Pandemic

Selected Topics: Electricity and Magnetism


Syllabus : Schedule : Covid

Announcements

Week Beginning
 coverage
February 01:Week 01
Chapter 01

February 02: 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
LN1
1.3.1 Integral Calculus
LN2
1.3.2 - 1.3.6 Fundamental Theorems

1.4 Curved Coordinates
February 15:Week 03 1-D Delta Function

3-D Delta Function
LN1
1.6 Vector Fields: Helmholtz Theorem







Chapter 02
LN
2.1.1 - 2.1.3 Electrostatics
February 22:Week 04 2.1.4 Continuous Charge Distributions

2.2.1 - 2.2.2 Divergence of E and Gauss's Law
WS3-250: LN1 LN2
Examples of Gauss' Law
LN1: F22
2.2.4 The Curl of E
LN2:F24
2.3.1 The electric potential
March 01:Week 05 Example2.6
LN1
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
LN2
2.5.1 - 2.5.4 Induced Q, forces, capacitances
March 08:Week 06


W March 10: Service Day

LN
Chapter 03
[ Demo Experiments ]
3.1.1 - 3.1.5 Laplace 1d, 2d, 3d , Ehrnshaw
March 15:Week 07 Method of Images

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

3.3.2-Spherical Laplace Solutions

Example 3.5
LN
Higher dimensional Laplace Solutions

Test 01 Due Approximate

March 22:Week 08
Field of Electric Dipole
LN
Multipole Expansions
LN



March 29:Week 09
Chapter 04
LN
Polarizability
LN
Linear Dielectrics

Electric  Fields in  linear Matter



Program Problem 1 for test 2 [P:O]


April 05: Week 10
Reminder: BC on V



Chapter 05
LN
Faraday's Law Review

Ampere's Law Review
LN
Different Versions of Biot Savert
April 12:Week 11 B from a wire segment
LN
B from a spinning disk of charge

B from a finite solenoid

more on currents
LN
B from a planar spiral at center
April 19:Week 12 Connections between J B and A

Vector Potential Notes



Chapter 06

Electric  Fields in  linear Matter
LN
Section 6.2.1 Magnetization

Test 02 Due Approximate
April 26:Week 13

Continuity Equation



Chapter 07

Ohm's Law
LN
Motional emf and Faraday's Law

Example 7.4

Example 7.8

Inductance and Energy density
LN
Maxwell's Equations before Maxwell
May 03:Week 14 Maxwell's Equations in Matter

Monday May 03
Dr. Susan Patton
Dune at LBNF
Her Lecture
Wednesday May 05
Chapter 08

Poynting Vector

Maxwell Stress Tensor


May 10:Week 15  Chapter 09


LN
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 10
Test 03 Due
May 11
Last Day of Classes