Physics 423: Electricity & Magnetism I

  • Instructor: Dana Longcope (e-mail) 260D EPS
  • Meets: MWF 11:00-11:50 Wilson 1-124
  • Office hours:
    • Tues. 10:00 in EPS 230
    • Thurs. 1:10 in EPS 260D
    • try other times not blocked off in schedule
  • Phone: 994-7851
  • Text: Introduction to Electrodynamics, 4th edition, Griffiths
  • Week of... Mon. Wed. Fri.
    Jan. 12 vectors (1.1) grad, div, curl (1.2.1-1.2.7)
    Jan. 19 MLK day curvy coords (1.4)
    ASSESSMENT QUIZ
    Integrals (1.3.1)
    Jan. 26 Fund. Thm. Calc. (1.3.2-1.3.5) Dirac's delta function (1.5) Coulomb's law (2.1)
    Feb. 2 Integ. & diff'l forms (2.2) Electric potential (2.3)
    Feb. 9 Electric potential (cont'd) review, practice exam EXAM #1
    Feb. 16 President's day Work & Energy (2.4)
    Feb. 23 Conductors (2.5) Laplace's equation (3.1) Method of images (3.2)
    Mar. 2 Separation of variables (3.3)
    Mar. 9 Spring break
    Mar. 16 Multipole expansion (3.4)
    Mar. 23 review, practice exam EXAM #2 Polarization (4.1)
    Mar. 30 Fields from polarized objects (4.2) Electric Displacement D (4.3) university day
    Apr. 6 Linear Dielectrics (4.4)
    Apr. 13 Linear Dielectric (cont'd) Lorentz force (5.1) Biot-Savart's law (5.2)
    Apr. 20 div(B) and curl(B) - (5.3) review, practice exam EXAM #3
    Apr. 27 Ampere's Law (cont'd) -
    May 4 Review - 1:00 Tues. May 5 in EPS 235
    FINAL EXAM - 4:00 Thurs. May 7 in Wilson 1-124


    Homework

    Problem set
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    notes/comments
    Problem Set 1 1/16 1/21 1/23 (p3 is 1.25 in the 3rd edition)
    Problem Set 2 1/26 1/28 1/30 (1.28 & 1.34 in 3rd edition)
    Problem Set 3 2/2 2/4 2/6 same #s in 3rd edition
    Problem Set 4 2/9 2/11 - fixed little typo: "alb" -> "along". p.2: uniform charge denisty on half disk (see revised problem).
    Problem Set 5 2/23 2/25 2/27 3rd Ed.: 2.32, 2.35, 2.39
    Problem Set 6 3/2 3/4 3/6
    Problem Set 7 16 18 20 not found in 3rd edition
    Problem Set 8 3/30 4/1 4/6
    Problem Set 9 4/8 4/10 - In Fig. 4.24, label the bottom slab "Slab 2"
    Problem Set 10 4/13 4/15 4/17
    Problem Set 11 4/20 4/22


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