361 Homework assignments - Spring 2016

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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 author does. I'm not sure why; if anything, doing that makes the math more cumbersome. Don't be like Griffiths.