361 Homework assignments - Spring 2016
Problem set 1: Due Friday Jan 22nd at start of class
Reading assignment 1: Coulomb's and Gauss's laws. Pollack and Stump sections 3.1-3.4 or Griffiths sections 2.1-2.2 by Friday Jan 15th
Reading assignment 2: Delta functions, potentials, and potential energy. Pollack and Stump sections 3.5-3.7 or Griffiths sections 2.3-2.4 by Monday the 18th
Reading assignment 3: Multipole expansions. Pollack and Stump sections 3.8-3.9 or Griffiths section 3.4 by Friday the 22nd
Problem set 2: Due Friday Jan 29th at start of class
Reading assignment 4: Electrostatics with conductors. Pollack and Stump 4.1-4.2 or Griffiths 2.5 and 3.2 by Monday Feb 1st at start of class
Problem set 3: Due Friday Feb 5th at start of class
Reading assignment 5: Problems with spherical symmetry. Pollack and Stump 4.3 or Griffiths 3.3 by Monday Feb 1st at start of class
Reading assignment 6: Problems with cylindrical symmetry. Pollack and Stump 4.4 or Griffiths 3.3 by Wednesday Feb 3rd at start of class
Note: Griffith's treatment of methods of solving Laplace's equation is kind of brief, especially if you're seeing separation of variables for the first time. If you're using Griffiths, consider supplementing it with a math phys text or pieces of Pollack and Stump as a secondary source.
Reading assignment 7: Separation of variables in Cartesian coordinates. Pollack and Stump 5.1 or Griffiths 3.3.1 + supplement by Monday Feb 8th at start of class
Reading assignment 8: Separation of variables in spherical coordinates. Pollack and Stump 5.2 or Griffiths 3.3.2 + supplement by Wednesday Feb 10th at start of class
Reading assignment 9: Separation of variables in cylindrical coordinates. Pollack and Stump 5.3 by Friday Feb 12th at start of class. No good Griffiths equivalent
Problem set 4: Due Wednesday Feb 17th at the start of class
Problem set 5: Due Friday Feb 26th at the start of class
Reading assignment 10: Dipoles, polarization, and bound charge. Pollack and Stump 6.1 & 6.2 or Griffiths 4.1 and 4.2 by Monday February 22nd at the start of class
Reading assignment 11: The displacement field. Pollack and Stump 6.3 or Griffiths 4.3 by Wednesday February 24th at the start of class
Reading assignment 12: Capacitors and special techniques involving dielectrics. Pollack and Stump 6.4 or Griffiths 4.4 by Wednesday March 2nd at the start of class
Problem set 6: Due Friday Mar 4th at the start of class
Reading assignment 13: Introduction to current. Pollack and Stump 7.1 and 7.2 or Griffiths 5.1.3 by Monday Mar 7th at the start of class.
Reading assignment 14: Current and resistance. Pollack and Stump 7.3 or Griffiths 7.1.1 by Wednesday Mar 9th at the start of class. Special note: Griffiths insists on defining current as a vector despite the fact that literally no other author does. I'm not sure why; if anything, doing that makes the math more cumbersome. Don't be like Griffiths.
Reading assignment 15: Slightly more dynamic currents. Pollack and Stump 7.4 and 7.6 or Griffiths 7.1.1 by Monday Mar 21st at the start of class.
Problem set 7: Due Friday March 11th at the start of class
Problem set 8: Due Friday March 25th at the start of class
Reading assignment 16: Fields and forces. Pollack and Stump 8.1-8.3 or Griffiths 5.1-5.2, by Friday March 25th at the start of class. This is mostly a review of phys 2 material. Feel free to skim it.
Reading assignment 17: Ampere's law. Pollack and Stump 8.4 or Griffiths 5.3, by Monday March 28th at the start of class.
Reading assignment 18: The magnetic vector potential. Pollack and Stump 8.5 or Griffiths 5.4 by Wednesday March 30th at the start of class.
Problem set 9: Due Friday April 1st in my mailbox in Pines.
Problem set 10: Due Friday April 8th at the start of class.
Reading assignment 19: Magnetic dipoles. Pollack and Stump 8.6 or Griffiths 6.1.2 by Monday April 11th at the start of class.
Reading assignment 20: Magnetization. Pollack and Stump 9.1 and 9.2 or the rest of Griffiths 6.1.2 and 6.2 by Wednesday April 13th at the start of class.
Problem set 11: Due Friday April 22nd at the start of class.
Reading assignment 21: H and the magnetic scalar potential. Pollack and Stump 9.3 (not 9.3.3) and 9.5 or Griffiths 6.3 and problem statement for 6.15 by Wednesday April 20th at start of class.
Reading assignment 22: Para, dia, and ferromagnetism. Pollack and Stump 9.3.3 and 9.6 or Griffiths 6.4 by Friday April 22nd at the start of class.
Problem set 12: Due Friday April 29th at the start of class. Last one.
Reading assignment 23: Faraday's law. Pollack and Stump 10-10.2 or Griffiths 7-7.2.2 by Friday April 29th at the start of class. Last reading.
