PHGN-462 Fall

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Professor: Dr. Chip Durfee

Office: Meyer Hall 330

Meeting Times and Location: Meyer Hall 220: Monday,Wednesday,Friday 9:00-9:50 AM

• Additional Hour for those taking the course as PHGN-507: Monday 3:00-3:50 PM Meyer 347

Announcements

30 August: I have a thesis defense to attend next Wednesday (6 Sept) from 2-4. For that day, my office hours will be 1-2 and 4-5. Chances are good it won't take the whole time, so I'll be in my office when it's done.

Homework 1 comments: Problem 6: This problem is essentially the same as problem 8.5 (b) in Griffiths. The main thing is that the conductor is one half of a capacitor.

Problem 5: You are using the stress tensor here primarily to determine the direction of the pressure. Notice that the equation they refer to is one for a tensor aligned with the magnetic field. So although the B field is azimuthal, consider that form to be the value of the tensor at a location at, say x=a, y=0.

Office hours

Monday 4-5p, Wednesday 3-5p, Thursday 2-4p Let me know if you can't make these - we can make an appointment.

Course Forum and Supplementary Readings/Homework Solutions

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Course Material

Syllabus and Reading List

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader Syllabus for PHGN-507 Syllabus for PHGN-462 Reading list for 1st few weeks

Quiz

Quiz 1 30 Aug 06 Normally these will be graded, but this time we'll grade them but not count points off since I was late in getting this posted up.

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader math equations you should know quiz 1 solutions

Homework Assignments: all students

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader homework 1

Lecture Notes

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader Lecture 1: maxwell eqns in Gaussian (review) Lecture 2: plasma physics intro, review of calcs of UE and UM (not done in class)

Mathematica Demos

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader Stress tensor calculations for two point charges