Physics 382 : Spring 2026

Selected Topics: Electricity and Magnetism

Syllabus : Schedule : Lab Safety Regulations

Announcements

Week Beginning
 coverage
January 12 : Week 01
Chapter 01

January 19 : Week 02
Useful Page
pseudovector example
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 26 : 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 02 : 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 09: 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 16 : Week 06
February 25 Test 01 Due Approximate date



Chapter 03
Experiments in class
3.1.1 - 3.1.5 Laplace 1d, 2d, 3d , Ehrnshaw
March 03 : 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 02 : Week 08
Field of Electric Dipole

Multipole Expansions


March 16 : Week 09
Chapter 04

Polarizability

Linear Dielectrics

Electric  Fields in  linear Matter



Program Problem 1 for test 2 [P:O]
March 23 - March 27
Spring Break
March 30 : Week 10
Reminder: BC on V



Chapter 05

Faraday's Law Review

Ampere's Law Review

Different Versions of Biot Savert
April 06
Test 02 Due Approximate date
April 13 : 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 20 : Week 12 Connections between J B and A

Vector Potential Notes



Chapter 06

Electric  Fields in  linear Matter

Section 6.2.1 Magnetization
April 27 : Week 13

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

Maxwell's Equations in Matter


April 27 : Week 14 Chapter 08

Poynting Vector

Maxwell Stress Tensor


May 04
 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

Additional topics
May 08
Test 03 Due
May 08
Last Day of Classes