Physics 382: Special Topics in Physics

Electricity and Magnetism : Spring 2006

Syllabus : Schedule : Primary Learning Outcomes

Announcements

 

 

Useful Information and Links

A page I think you'll find useful

Coordinate Info:

 Cartesian

Cylindrical

Spherical

the integrator

Delta Function

Jacobian Determinate

Animation of Fourier terms at a boundary

VRML: Laplace Equation Potential (V) solutions in Cartesian Coordinates { 1 : 2 }

 

 

parallelplatediode.xls

Wave guide and resonator visualizations (Extremely well done!)

 
 

 

Notes

Date

Lecture 1-3 notes

Tuesday January 17 2006

Martin Luther King Holiday

Monday: January 16, 2006

Curvilinear Unit Vectors

Thursday January 19 2006 (1)

Spherical Coordinates Thursday January 19 2006 (2)
Delta Function

Tuesday January 24 2006

Chapter 2-1.doc

Charged Wire: Dipole Wire: Plane: Charged Pipe: Charged thick disk

Thursday January 26 2006 (1)

Problems for January 26 2006

Problems: 1.49:1.53:1.54:1.56:1.58

Thursday January 26 2006 (2)
Divergence and Curl of Electrostatic Fields.doc

Gauss's Law Review Worksheet

Tuesday January 31 2006

Potential of a Point Charge : generalization

Find V by direct integration: wire : ring : disk : thick disk

Model for V of hydrogen atom

Thursday February 02 2006 (1)
Problems: 2.11:2.12:2.13:2.14:2.15

Charged Spherical Shell: E : V

Thursday February 02 2006 (2)

E Electrostatic BC VRML:: Normal E: Tangential E

Boundary Conditions when crossing surface charges

Electrostatic Energy Notes

Tuesday February 07 2006
Boundary Conditions For Electrostatics

More notes on capacitances

Thursday February 09 2006 (1)
Problems : Child Langmuir Law Thursday February 09 2006 (2)
Laplace's Equation and Solutions: 1D & 2D Tuesday February 14 2006
Simplest Laplace Boundary-Value Problems

Uniqueness and Method of Images

Thursday February 16 2006 (1)
Solutions To Laplace's Equation in Higher Dimensions Thursday February 16 2006 (2)
 Test 1 due at 17:00 Monday February 20 2006
  Tuesday February 21 2006
  Thursday February 23 2006 (1)
  Thursday February 23 2006 (2)
3D Cartesian Coordinate Solutions to Laplace's Equation Tuesday February 28 2006
Spherical Coordinate Solutions to Laplace's Equation Thursday March 02 2006 (1)
Legendre Polynomials as Solutions to Laplace's Equation Thursday March 02 2006 (2)
  Monday: March 06, 2006

Spring Break

through
  Friday: March 10, 2006
Electric Dipole Notes Tuesday March 07 2006
Multipole Expansions Thursday March 09 2006 (1)
Thursday March 09 2006 (2)
Different Versions of Biot Savart Law.doc Tuesday March 14 2006
AmperesLawReview.doc Thursday March 16 2006 (1)
B from a spinning disk of charge.doc Thursday March 16 2006 (2)
Current Loop 1st order : Skewed Solenoid Field Calculation Tuesday March 21 2006
Planar Spiral of Current Thursday March 23 2006 (1)
Vector Potential from a segment of wire Thursday March 23 2006 (2)
Vector Potential 2 Tuesday March 28 2006
J, B, A connections and boundary conditions Thursday March 30 2006 (1)
Chapter 7: emf and Faraday's Law Review Thursday March 30 2006 (2)
 Test 2 due at 13:00 Friday: March 31, 2006
  Tuesday April 04 2006
Maxwell's Equations Thursday April 06 2006 (1)
  Thursday April 06 2006 (2)

Arkansas Academy of Science

Friday: April 07, 2005
ElectroMagneticWavesPart1.doc Tuesday April 11 2006
ElectromagneticWavesPart2.doc Thursday April 13 2006 (1)
IntegralVsDifferentialMaxwellEquations.doc

Derivation of Maxwell Wave Equations for TEM waves.doc

Hand-Waving

Thursday April 13 2006 (2)

Easter

Friday: April 14, 2006
Holiday Monday: April 17, 2006

Guided Waves

Tuesday April 18 2006
Electric and Magnetic Fields in Linear Materials.doc Thursday April 20 2006 (1)
Child-LangmuirLaw.doc Thursday April 20 2006 (2)
Derivation of the Continuity Equation.doc Tuesday April 25 2006

Conductivity in the presence of free electrons.doc

Dispersion in condensed matter.doc

Thursday April 27 2006 (1)
Electromagnetic Waves in linear Matter-normal incidence.doc

Reflection and Transmission at other than normal incidence.doc

Thursday April 27 2006 (2)

Last Day of Class: Test 3 due today

Thursday: April 27, 2006