Physics 519 - E&M I

Announcment:

Classes will now be on-line via WebEx. Students will receive invitations via e-mail. If you do not receive one by 10:00am on class day please e-mail instructor.

Short versions of the lectures will appear as videos. Links appear at the bottom of the page, or via he relevant date. Please view these before before the class. You will need to log in w/ your NetID credentials.


Week of...

Mon

Wed.

Fri.

Jan. 13

Vector Calc. review

 Poisson eq. via Green's function

(1.6 - 1.10)

Energy & Capacitance

(1.11 - 1.12)

Jan. 20

MLK

Boundary conditions - BVP

(2.1 - 2.7)

Jan. 27

Orthogonal function expansion

(2.8 - 2.11)

Feb. 3

Spherical. harmonics l=0 

(3.1 - 3.4)

Spherical harmonics gen. 

(3.5 - 3.6) 

Feb. 10

Spherical harmonics gen. 

Cylindrical: Bessel functions

(3.8 - 3.13)

Feb. 17

Pres. Day

Cylindrical: Bessel functions

EXAM #1

2:10-4:00 in Roberts 210

Feb. 24

multipole expansions (4.1-4.2)

Mar 2

Polarization & Displacment (4.3 - 4.6)

Mar. 9

Energy w/ Polarization (4.7)

Magnetostatics (5.1-5.5)

Mar. 16

Spring break

Mar. 23

Magnetostatics (5.1-5.5) and lecture videos

Multipoles (5.6 - 5.7) and lecture videos

NCUR

Mar. 30

Multipoles (5.6 - 5.7) and lecture videos

Magnetic materials (5.8 - 5.12) and lecture videos

Apr. 6

Faraday's Law (5.15-5.16) and lecture videos

Energy and Inductance (5.17) and lecture videos

University Day

Apr. 13

Energy and Inductance (5.16-5.17)

Magnetic Diffusion (5.18) and lecture videos

EXAM #2

Apr. 20

Transmission lines notes

Displacement Current & wave solutions(6.1-6.4), notes, and lecture videos

Apr. 27

Radiation (pp 1-6 of notes )

Conservation laws & Poynting flux (6.7-6.9)

May 4

FINAL: Tues. May 5, 12:00-2:00pm; online via D2L


Handouts


Homework


Problem set
Due date
notes/comments
Problem Set 1 Jan. 22 revised Jan. 20: spheres on problem 3 are concentric
Problem Set 2 Jan 29
Problem Set 3 Feb 7 Due date extended to Fri. Feb. 7
Problem Set 4 Wed Feb 19
Problem Set 5 Wed. Mar 4
Problem Set 6 Fri Mar 13 3/10: Interesting but non-essential footpnote added to prob. 3.
Problem Set 7 Wed. Apr 1 Error in prob. 2 corrected
Problem Set 8 Wed. Apr 8
Problem Set 9 Wed. Apr 15
Problem Set 10 May 1

Lecture videos