Intermediate Electromagnetism 2008

Revision as of 22:34, 26 March 2008

Course Information

Professor: Dr. Frank Kowalski

Office: Meyer 439

Course Links

Forum for Intermediate Electromagnetism

Kowalski InkSurvey site

Course Material

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 31 March

Problem solving strategies:

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader Strategy outline example problems

Exam Solutions

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

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader solutions to exam II

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: examples ch 5 Lecture 27: Ohm's law

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