Physics 382.01: Special Topics in Physics

Electricity and Magnetism : Spring 2007

Syllabus : Schedule : Assessable Learning Outcomes

Announcements

Final Exam Schedule Announced

 

 

Useful Information and Links

A page I think you'll find useful [ W : P ]

Coordinate Info:

 Cartesian

Cylindrical

Spherical

the integrator

Volume of parallelepiped

Jacobian Determinate

 

Delta Function

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

Week Beginning

Lecture 1-3 notes [ W : P ]

 January 08 2007

Curvilinear Unit Vectors  [ W : P ]

 January 08 2007

Spherical Coordinates [ W : P ]  January 08 2007

Martin Luther King Holiday

Monday: January 15, 2007

   
Delta Function [ W : P ]

 January 15 2007

Chapter 2-1 [ W : P  ]

Charged Wire [ W : P ]

Dipole Wire [ W : P ]

Charged Pipe [ W : P ]

Charged Thick Disk [ W : P ]

January 15 2007

Problems

1.49 [ W : P ]

1.53 [ W : P ]

1.54 [ W : P ]

1.56 [ W : P ]

1.58 [ W : P ]

 January 15 2007
Divergence & Curl of Electrostatic Fields [ W : P]

Gauss's Law Review Worksheet [ W : P ]

January 22 2007

Potential of a Point Charge : generalization

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

Model for V of hydrogen atom

January 22 2007
Problems: 2.11:2.12:2.13:2.14:2.15

Charged Spherical Shell: E : V

 January 22 2007

E Electrostatic BC VRML:: Normal E: Tangential E

Boundary Conditions when crossing surface charges

Electrostatic Energy Notes

January 29 2007
Boundary Conditions For Electrostatics

More notes on capacitances

January 29 19 2007
Problems : Child Langmuir Law January 29 2007
Laplace's Equation and Solutions: 1D & 2D February 05 2007
Simplest Laplace Boundary-Value Problems

Uniqueness and Method of Images

February 05 2007
Solutions To Laplace's Equation in Higher Dimensions February 05 2007
 Test 1 due at 16:00 Monday February 16 2007
  February 19 2007
  February 19 2007
  February 19 2007
3D Cartesian Coordinate Solutions to Laplace's Equation February 26 2007
Spherical Coordinate Solutions to Laplace's Equation February 26 2007
Legendre Polynomials as Solutions to Laplace's Equation February 26 2007
  Monday: March 05, 2007

Spring Break

through
  Friday: March 09, 2007
Electric Dipole Notes  March 12 2007
Multipole Expansions March 12 2007
 March 12 2007
Different Versions of Biot Savart Law.doc  March 19 2007
AmperesLawReview.doc  March 19 2007
B from a spinning disk of charge.doc March 19 2007
Current Loop 1st order : Skewed Solenoid Field Calculation  March 26 2007
Planar Spiral of Current  March 26 2007
Vector Potential from a segment of wire  March 26 2007
Vector Potential 2 April 02 2007
J, B, A connections and boundary conditions April 02 2007
Chapter 7: emf and Faraday's Law Review April 02 2007
 Test 2 due at 16:00 Friday: March 30, 2007
No Class  April 06 2007
Easter Break April 06-April 09 2007
Maxwell's Equations  April 09 2007
ElectroMagneticWavesPart1.doc April 09 2007
ElectromagneticWavesPart2.doc  April 09 2007
IntegralVsDifferentialMaxwellEquations.doc

Derivation of Maxwell Wave Equations for TEM waves.doc

Hand-Waving

April 16 2007
Field Trip: Directions to LaCroix Optical 8:00 or 9:00 April 16 2007

Guided Waves

April 16 2007
Electric and Magnetic Fields in Linear Materials.doc April 16 2007
Child-LangmuirLaw.doc April 23 2007
Derivation of the Continuity Equation.doc April 23 2007

Conductivity in the presence of free electrons.doc

Dispersion in condensed matter.doc

 April 23 2007
 Test 2 due at 16:00 Thursday April 26
Electromagnetic Waves in linear Matter-normal incidence.doc

Reflection and Transmission Spreadsheet

Reflection and Transmission at other than normal incidence.doc

April 23 2007

Last Day of Class: Test 3 due today

April 26, 2007