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 April 19th (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 Monday Jan 14th at start of class[3]

Reading assignment 1: Sections 3.1-3.4 by Friday Jan 11th

Reading assignment 2: 3.5-3.7 by the 14th

Reading assignment 3: 3.8-3.9 by the 16th

Reading assignment 4: 4.1-4.2 by the 18th

Lecture notes

Intro Slides: Syllabus and administrative whatnot[4]

Lecture 1: Framing[5]

Lecture 2: Coulomb's law & Gauss's law[6]

Lecture 3: Voltage and energy[7]

Lecture 4: Multipole expansions[8]

Lecture 5: Conductors & method of images[9]

Lecture 6: Solving Laplace's equations[10]

Lecture 7: Chapter 4 wrap-up[11]

Lecture 8: Separation of variables[12]

Lecture 9: Legendre polynomials[13]

Lecture 10: Problems with cylindrical symmetry[14]

Lecture 11: 3D separation of variables[15]

Lecture 12: Polarization[16]

Lecture 13: The displacement field D[17]

Lecture 14: Boundary conditions[18]

Lecture 15: Current[19]

Lecture 16: Resistance[20]

Lecture 17: Current in dynamics[21]

Lecture 18: Magnetic forces[22]

Lecture 19: Biot-Savart law[23]

Lecture 20: Ampere's law[24]

Lecture 21: The vector potential A[25]

Lecture 22: Magnetic dipoles[26]

Lecture 23: Magnetization and bound currents[27]

Lecture 24: Boundary conditions for B and H[28]

Lecture 25: Magnetic scalar potential and examples[29]

Lecture 26: Para, dia, and ferromagnetism[30]

Lecture 27: Faraday's law[31]

Lecture 28: Denouement[32]

Clicker questions and other slides

Coming soon

Pictures of rabbits

Baby bunny drinking[33]

Rabbit answering phone[34]

Baby bunny in field[35]

My rabbits, Mojo (orange) and Neela (black)[36]

Neela chillin' at the top of the stairs[37]

Happy baby bunny[38]

High voltage rabbit[39]

Mojo and Neela watching Tom Hanks[40]