Physics 382: Selected Topics: Electricity and Magnetism
Syllabus





Week Beginning
 coverage
January 11:Week 01
Chapter 01

Useful Page
L01
1.1.4 position, displacement, separation vectors
L01
1,1,5 how vectors transform
Read 1.2.5 - 1.2.7
1.2.1 -1.2.4 Differential Calculus

1.3.1 Integral Calculus

1.3.2 - 1.3.6 Fundamental Theorems

1.4 Curved Coordinates

1-D Delta Function

3-D Delta Function

1.6 Vector Fields: Helmholtz Theorem
January 18:Week 02
Martin Luther King Day Monday January 18





Chapter 02

2.1.1 - 2.1.3 Electrostatics
January 25:Week 03
2.1.4 Continuous Charge Distributions

2.2.1 - 2.2.2 Divergence of E and Gauss's Law

Examples of Gauss' Law

2.2.4 The Curl of E

2.3.1 The electric potential
February 01:Week 04
Example2.6

2.3.3-2.3.4 Poisson and Laplace Equations

2.3.5-Electrostatic Boundary Conditions

2.4.2 - 2.4.5: Energy and conductors

2.5.1 - 2.5.4 Induced Q, forces, capacitances
February 08:Week 05
Test 01 Due of Monday February 08





Chapter 03
Experiments in class
3.1.1 - 3.1.5 Laplace 1d, 2d, 3d , Ehrnshaw
February 15:Week 06
Method of Images

Child Langmuir Law
Examples 1 2 3
Laplace's Equation examples

3.3.2-Spherical Laplace Solutions

Example 3.5

Higher dimensional Laplace Solutions
February 22: Week 07
Field of Electric Dipole
February 29: Week 08 Multipole Expansions






March 07
Spring Break: March 07 - March 11






March 14:Week 09
Chapter 04

Polarizability

Linear Dielectrics

Electric  Fields in  linear Matter
March 21:Week 10
Reminder: BC on V



Chapter 05

Faraday's Law Review

Ampere's Law Review

Different Versions of Biot Savert
March 28:Week 11
Easter: Monday March 28
April 04:Week 12 B from a wire segment

B from a spinning disk of charge

B from a finite solenoid

more on currents

B from a planar spiral at center

Connections between J B and A

Vector Potential Notes



Chapter 06

Electric  Fields in  linear Matter

Section 6.2.1 Magnetization
April 11:Week 13
Test 02 Due on Monday April 11

Continuity Equation



Chapter 07

Ohm's Law

Motional emf and Faraday's Law

Example 7.4

Example 7.8

Inductance and Energy density

Maxwell's Equations before Maxwell
April 18:Week 14 Maxwell's Equations in Matter



Chapter 08

Poynting Vector

Maxwell Stress Tensor


April 25:Week 15  Chapter 09

1-Dimensional waves

EM waves

EM monochromatic plane waves

TEM waves in matter

Non-normal incidence of TEM waves

Reflection at a conducting surface

Guided Waves




Last day: April 29
Test 03 due on Friday April 29