PHGN-361 Spring-2013

Pat's office hours for Spring 2012:

MF: 12:00PM - 2:00PM (CTLM 224)

W: 12:00PM - 1:00PM

Justin's office hours

TBD, Meyer Hall computer lab

Exam dates:

Friday Feb 1st

Friday Mar 8th (or oral exam same week)

Friday (or oral exam same week)

Course material for Phys 361 - Intermediate E&M

Syllabus[1]

Example homework problem - How I wrote up problems in school[2]

Homework assignments

Problem set 1: Due Wed Jan 18th at start of class[3]

Reading assignment 1: Sections 3.1-3.4 by Friday Jan 13th

Reading assignment 2: 3.5-3.7 by the 16th

Reading assignment 3: 3.8-3.9 by the 18th

Reading assignment 4: 4.1-4.2 by the 20th

Suggested assignment: Study the solutions to HW1 (before or after your work gets returned; up to you) and make sure you understand what's going on in detail (have done before exam I)

Reading assignment 5: 4.3 by the 25th

Suggested assignment: Study the solutions to HW2 (before or after your work gets returned; up to you) and make sure you understand what's going on in detail (have done before exam I)

Reading assignment 6: 4.4 by the 27th (on further reflection, 4.4 is kind of a mess all the way through, so just give it a casual look)

Problem set 2: Due Wed Jan 25th[4]

Problem set 3: Due Wed Feb 1st[5]

Suggested assignment: Study the solutions to HW3 and make sure you understand what's going on in detail (have done before exam I)

Reading assignment 7: 5.1 by Feb. 8th

Reading assignment 8: 5.2 by Feb. 10th

Reading assignment 9: 5.3 by Feb. 13th

Problem set 4: Due Friday Feb 17th[6]

Reading assignment 10: 6.1, 6.2 by Feb. 17th

Problem set 5: Due Wednesday Feb. 29th[7]

Reading assignment 11: 6.3 by Feb. 22th

Reading assignment 12: 6.4 and 6.5 by Feb. 24th

Problem set 6: Due Wednesday Mar. 7th[8]

Reading assignment 13: 7.1-7.3 by Mar. 2nd

Reading assignment 14: 7.4-7.6 by Mar. 5th

Reading assignment 15: 8.1-8.3 by Mar. 21st

Reading assignment 16: 8.4 by Mar. 23rd

Problem set 7: Due Wednesday Mar. 28th[9]

Reading assignment 17: 8.5, 8.6 by Apr. 2nd

Reading assignment 18: 9.1 by Apr. 4th

Reading assignment 19: 9.2 by Apr. 6th

Problem set 8: Due Friday Apr. 6th[10]

Problem set 9: Due Wednesday Apr. 11th[11]

Reading assignment 20: 9.3 by Apr. 11th

Reading assignment 21: 9.4 by Apr. 13th

Reading assignment 22: 9.5 by Apr. 16th

Problem set 10: Due Wednesday Apr. 18th[12]

Reading assignment 23: 9.6 by Apr. 18th

Problem set 11: Due Wednesday May 2nd[13]

Reading assignment 24: 10.1-2 by Apr. 20th, but beware derivation 10.1.2 (some shady stuff there; can you find it?)

Reading assignment 25: 10.3.1, 10.3.3, 10.4 by Apr. 25

END OF ASSIGNMENTS

Lecture notes

Intro Slides: Syllabus and administrative whatnot[14]

Lecture 1: Framing[15]

Lecture 2: Coulomb's law & Gauss's law[16]

Lecture 3: Voltage and energy[17]

Lecture 4: Multipole expansions[18]

Lecture 5: Conductors & method of images[19]

Lecture 6: Solving Laplace's equations[20]

Lecture 7: Chapter 4 wrap-up[21]

Lecture 8: Separation of variables[22]

Lecture 9: Legendre polynomials[23]

Lecture 10: Problems with cylindrical symmetry[24]

Lecture 11: 3D separation of variables[25]

Lecture 12: Polarization[26]

Lecture 13: The displacement field D[27]

Lecture 14: Boundary conditions[28]

Lecture 15: Current[29]

Lecture 16: Resistance[30]

Lecture 17: Current in dynamics[31]

Lecture 18: Magnetic forces[32]

Lecture 19: Biot-Savart law[33]

Lecture 20: Ampere's law[34]

Lecture 21: The vector potential A[35]

Lecture 22: Magnetic dipoles[36]

Lecture 23: Magnetization and bound currents[37]

Lecture 24: Boundary conditions for B and H[38]

Lecture 25: Magnetic scalar potential and examples[39]

Lecture 26: Para, dia, and ferromagnetism[40]

Lecture 27: Faraday's law[41]

Lecture 28: Denouement[42]

Clicker questions and other slides

Coming soon

Pictures of rabbits

Baby bunny drinking[43]

Rabbit answering phone[44]

Baby bunny in field[45]

My rabbits, Mojo (orange) and Neela (black)[46]

Neela chillin' at the top of the stairs[47]

Happy baby bunny[48]

High voltage rabbit[49]

Mojo and Neela watching Tom Hanks[50]