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Physics 422 -- Fall 2009 |
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Greetings and welcome to the home page for Physics 422: Electrodynamics.
Here are (or will be) some useful files for the course:
Below is the course schedule. The given date is when we will be
dealing with the listed topics in class. Future dates on this schedule
are somewhat tentative. I will modify the table as we go so that the
closer the dates are to the present, the more accurate it is.
You will note that some of the dates in the first column are
hyperlinks. Each link will take you to the pre-flight quiz for that
week's reading. Make sure you complete the quiz by 1 am on that date
(that is, the night before). The quiz will cover the future week's
reading, and the specific chapters will be mentioned on the quiz, to
avoid confusion. Yes, you may look at the quizzes at any time.
Quizzes will always be on Monday mornings (that is, Sunday nights).
Homework sets will always be due on Fridays, and the optional self-directed
projects will always be due on Tuesdays.
| Date | Griffiths | Feynman II | Topic |
| Aug 24 | 2.1 | 1 | Introduction |
| Aug 26 | 1.2 | 2 | Div, Grad, Curl |
| Aug 27 | 1.3 | 3 | Fundamental Theorems |
| Aug 31 | 1.4 | | Curved Coordinates |
| Sep 02 | 1.5 | | Delta Functions |
| Sep 03 | 1.6 | | Potentials |
| Sep 04 | | | Homework 1 |
| Sep 07 | 2.2 | | Gauss's Law |
| Sep 08 | | | Project 1 |
| Sep 09 | | 5 | Examples of Gauss's Law |
| Sep 10 | 2.3 | 4 | Electric Potential |
| Sep 11 | | | Homework 2 |
| Sep 14 | | | More potentials |
| Sep 16 | 2.4 | 8 | Electrostatic energy |
| Sep 17 | 2.5 | | Conductors |
| Sep 18 | | | Homework 3 |
| Sep 21 | 4.1 | 10 | Polarization |
| Sep 22 | | | Project 2 |
| Sep 23 | 4.2 | | Bound charges |
| Sep 24 | 4.3 | | Displacement field |
| Sep 25 | | | Homework 4 |
| Sep 28 | 4.3 | 11 | Dielectrics |
| Sep 30 | 4.4 | | Dielectrics in Capacitors |
| Oct 01 | 5.1 | 13-14 | The "Magnetic" Field & Lorentz Force |
| Oct 02 | | | Homework 5 |
| Oct 05 | 5.2 | 15 | Biot-Savart Law |
| Oct 06 | | | Project 3 |
| Oct 07 | 5.3 | | Ampere's Law |
| Oct 08 | 5.4 | | Vector Potential |
| Oct 09 | | | Homework 6 |
| Oct 12 | 6.1 | 34-35 | Magnetization |
| Oct 13 | | | Exam 1 |
| Oct 14 | 6.2 | 36 | Bound Currents |
| Oct 15 | 6.3/4 | 37 | The H Field |
| Oct 16 | | | Homework 7 |
| Oct 19 | Fall Break |
| Oct 26 | | | Magnetic Examples |
| Oct 27 | | | Project 4 |
| Oct 28 | 7.1 | | Ohm's Law |
| Oct 29 | | 16 | EMF |
| Oct 30 | | | Homework 8 |
| Nov 02 | 7.3 | 17 | Faraday's Law & Lenz's Law |
| Nov 04 | | | Energy in B fields |
| Nov 05 | | 18/20 | Maxwell's Equations |
| Nov 06 | | | Homework 9 |
| Nov 09 | | | Examples |
| Nov 10 | | | Project 5 |
| Nov 11 | 8.1 | 27 | Poynting Vectors |
| Nov 12 | 8.2.1/2 | 31 | The Stress Tensor |
| Nov 13 | | | Homework 10 |
| Nov 16 | 10.1 | | Exam 2 (Chaps. 5, 6, & 7) |
| Nov 18 | 8.2.3 | 27 | Momentum |
| Nov 19 | 8.2.4 | | Angular Momentum |
| Nov 20 | | | Homework 11 |
| Nov 23 | | | Examples |
| Nov 23 | 10.1 | | Gauge Transformations |
| Nov 25 | | | Homework 12 |
| Nov 26 | Thanksgiving |
| Nov 30 | 12.3.2 | 26 | Relativistic Field Transformations |
| Dec 01 | | | Project 6 |
| Dec 02 | 12.3.3 | 25 | The Field Tensor |
| Dec 03 | 12.3.4 | | E&M in Tensor Notation |
| Dec 04 | | | Homework 13 |
| Dec 07 | 12.3.5 | | Relativistic Potentials |
| Dec 09 | | | Last Class |
| Dec 14 | | | Final Exam 8:30-11 am |
You might also find this web site of interest.
Here's an article about the vector potential.
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