Intermediate Electromagnetism 2008

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Course Information

Professor: Dr. Frank Kowalski

Office: Meyer 439

Course Links

Forum for Intermediate Electromagnetism

Kowalski InkSurvey site

Homework Assignments:

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader Homework 2: due in class 28 Jan Homework 3: due in class 04 Feb Homework 4: due in class 10 Feb Homework 5: due in class 25 Feb Homework 6: due in class 03 March All problems (beyond assign 6) will be graded with 5 points given for using the problem solving strategy and 5 points for completing the strategy to get the correct result. Homework 7: due in class 24 March Homework 8: due in class April 2 just before the exam Homework 9: due in class April 14 Homework 10: due in class April 21

Problem solving strategies:

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader Strategy outline example problems

Homework Solutions

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader graded solutions Ch4 and Ch1 graded solutions Ch5 and Ch7 graded solutions Ch7

Exam Solutions

Video solutions to exam I are located on the scratch directory voodoo,

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader solutions to exam II solutions to exam III solutions to final page 1 solutions to final page 2 solutions to final page 3

Lectures

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader Lecture 4:work done in assembling charge distributions Lecture 5:continuation of work done in assembling charge distributions Lecture 6:homework issues and begining of caps Lecture 7: energy of caps and overview of chapter 3 Lecture 8:Laplace's eqn, method of images, and beginning sep. variables Lecture 9: Cartesian coord. example sep variable Lecture 10: Relaxation soln and intro to spherical coord soln Laplaces eqn Lecture 11: more spherical coord Laplaces eqn Lecture 12: vector calculus in thermo Lecture 13: exam review and more laplace's eqn spherical coords Lecture 14: overview of dielectrics and multipole moments Lecture 15: V from a dipole and calculation of p Lecture 16: derivation of V from polarized object Lecture 17: example of polarized sphere Lecture 18: forces on dipoles and D Lecture 19: Linear dielectrics Lecture 20: Example calculating D, boundary conditions, review for exam II Lecture 21: overview of polarization and intro to problem solving strategies and ch 5 Lecture 22: Why E total is used in P and force on a spinning circular charge ring Lecture 23: dipole moment, K, and J calculations Lecture 24: Diff. form of charge conservation, force on wire example, and Biot and Savart Lecture 25: ampere's law and vector potential Lecture 26: more vector potential and examples from ch 5 Lecture 27: Ohm's law Lecture 28: Faraday's law Lecture 29: Faraday's law II and exam III review Lecture 30: Faraday's law Lecture 31: Faraday's law, review Gauss's, Ohm's laws Lecture 32: Inductance and angular mom increase due to Faraday's law Lecture 33: Displacement current Lecture 34: Intro to magnetic materials Lecture 35: Magnetic materials definition of H and example of using it to calculate B Lecture 36: Magnetic materials and relativity problem Lecture 37: Magnetic materials and voltage diff equator and north pole spinning sphere Lecture 38: Magnetic and electric dipole moments determined from macroscopic properties Lecture 39: Ferromagnetism and demos

Course Downloads

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader Course Syllabus Unit Vectors part1 Unit Vectors part2 Unit Vectors advanced

Previous years exams

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader midterm06 version I midterm06 version II