Physics 382.01: Special Topics in Physics

Electricity and Magnetism : Spring 2008

Syllabus : Schedule : Assessable Learning Outcomes

Announcements

 

Useful Information and Links

A page I think you'll find useful [ W : P ]

Coordinate Info:

 Cartesian

Cylindrical

Spherical

the integrator

Volume of parallelepiped

Jacobian Determinate

 

Delta Function

Animation of Fourier terms at a boundary

VRML: Laplace Equation Potential (V) solutions in Cartesian Coordinates { 1 : 2 }

 

 

parallelplatediode.xls

Wave guide and resonator visualizations (Extremely well done!)

 
 

 

Notes

Week Beginning

Lecture 1-3 notes [ W : P ]

 January 16 2008

Curvilinear Unit Vectors  [ W : P ]

 January 16 2008

Spherical Coordinates [ W : P ]  January 21 2008

Martin Luther King Holiday

Monday: January 21, 2008

   
Delta Function [ W : P ]

 January 21 2008

Chapter 2-1 [ W : P  ]

Charged Wire [ W : P ]

Dipole Wire [ W : P ]

Charged Pipe [ W : P ]

Charged Thick Disk [ W : P ]

January 28 2008

Problems

1.49 [ W : P ]

1.53 [ W : P ]

1.54 [ W : P ]

1.56 [ W : P ]

1.58 [ W : P ]

 January 28 2008
Divergence & Curl of Electrostatic Fields [ W : P]

Gauss's Law Review Worksheet [ W : P ]

January 28 2008

Potential of a Point Charge : generalization

Find V by direct integration: wire : ring : disk : thick disk

Model for V of hydrogen atom

February 04 2008
Problems: 2.11:2.12:2.13:2.14:2.15

Charged Spherical Shell: E : V

 February 04 2008

E Electrostatic BC VRML:: Normal E: Tangential E

Boundary Conditions when crossing surface charges

Electrostatic Energy Notes

February 04 2008
Boundary Conditions For Electrostatics

More notes on capacitances

February 11 2008
Problems : Child Langmuir Law February 11 2008
Laplace's Equation and Solutions: 1D & 2D February 11 2008
Simplest Laplace Boundary-Value Problems

Uniqueness and Method of Images

February 18 2008
Solutions To Laplace's Equation in Higher Dimensions February 18 2008
 Test 1 due at 16:00 Friday  February 22  2008
3D Cartesian Coordinate Solutions to Laplace's Equation February 25 2008
Spherical Coordinate Solutions to Laplace's Equation February 25 2008
Legendre Polynomials as Solutions to Laplace's Equation February 25 2008
Electric Dipole Notes  March 03 2008
Multipole Expansions March 03 2008
 March 03 2008
Different Versions of Biot Savart Law.doc  March 10 2008
AmperesLawReview.doc  March 10 2008
B from a spinning disk of charge.doc March 10 2008
   
Current Loop 1st order : Skewed Solenoid Field Calculation  March 24 2008
Planar Spiral of Current  March 24 2008
Vector Potential from a segment of wire  March 24 2008
Vector Potential 2 March 31 2008
J, B, A connections and boundary conditions March 31 2008
Chapter 7: emf and Faraday's Law Review March 31 2008
   
   
Maxwell's Equations  April 07 2008
ElectroMagneticWavesPart1.doc April 07 2008
ElectromagneticWavesPart2.doc  April 14 2008
IntegralVsDifferentialMaxwellEquations.doc

Derivation of Maxwell Wave Equations for TEM waves.doc

Hand-Waving

April 14 2008
  April 14 2008

Guided Waves

April 21 2008
Electric and Magnetic Fields in Linear Materials.doc April 21 2008
Child-LangmuirLaw.doc April 21 2008
Derivation of the Continuity Equation.doc April 28 2008

Conductivity in the presence of free electrons.doc

Dispersion in condensed matter.doc

 April 28 2008
Electromagnetic Waves in linear Matter-normal incidence.doc

Reflection and Transmission Spreadsheet

Reflection and Transmission at other than normal incidence.doc

 

Last Day of Class: Test 3 due today

Last Day of Class