Physics 382: Selected Topics: Electricity and Magnetism
Spring 2018

Syllabus





Week Beginning
 coverage
January 15:Week 01
Chapter 01

January 22: week 02
Useful Page

1.1.4 position, displacement, separation vectors

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
January 29:Week 03 1-D Delta Function

3-D Delta Function

1.6 Vector Fields: Helmholtz Theorem







Chapter 02

2.1.1 - 2.1.3 Electrostatics
February 05:Week 04 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 12:Week 05 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 19:Week 06 Test 01 Approximate





Chapter 03
Experiments in class
3.1.1 - 3.1.5 Laplace 1d, 2d, 3d , Ehrnshaw
February 26: Week 07 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

March 05:Week 08
Field of Electric Dipole

Multipole Expansions


March 12 - March 16 Spring Break


March 19:Week 09
Chapter 04

Polarizability

Linear Dielectrics

Electric  Fields in  linear Matter






March 26:Week 10
Reminder: BC on V



Chapter 05

Faraday's Law Review

Ampere's Law Review

Different Versions of Biot Savert
March 29-Aprl 02 Easter Break
April 02:Week 11 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
April 09:Week 12 Connections between J B and A

Vector Potential Notes



Chapter 06

Electric  Fields in  linear Matter

Section 6.2.1 Magnetization
April 16:Week 13 Test 02 Due Approximate

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 23:Week 14 Maxwell's Equations in Matter



Chapter 08

Poynting Vector

Maxwell Stress Tensor


April 23: Week 15  Chapter 09

1-Dimensional waves

EM waves

EM monochromatic plane waves
April 30: Week 16 TEM waves in matter

Non-normal incidence of TEM waves

Reflection at a conducting surface

Guided Waves

Additional topics
April 30
Test 03 Due Approximate
Last day: May 04