PHY425 Spring 2017 Calendar

Last updated on 4/25/17

 

The calendar lists topics, and the section numbers from the textbook (Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics, 4th Ed.) for the past lectures.

 

If homework is assigned to the material covered in the lecture, it is given in the column following the lecture. Problem numbers relate to the problems given in the textbook. The assignments are on or before the lecture a week after the problems have been assigned.

 

 

The calendar will be updated regularly.

 

W

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E

K

 

Mon

(no class)

Tuesday

Lecture

 

 

Lecture Topic.

Sections.

 

Related homework assignments

 

 

Problems

Thursday

Lecture

 

 

Lecture Topic.

Sections.

Related homework assignments

 

 

Problems

1

Jan 16

Class organization.

 

Review laws of electrostatics and magnetostatics.

Chapter 2,

5.1-5.3

None

Magnetic vector potential.

5.4.1

5.23,5.24,

5.27

2

Jan 23

Boundary conditions. Multipole expansion.

5.4.2-5.4.3

[Add Deadline] 

5.35,5.37,5.57,

5.58

Magnetization.

6.1.1-6.1.4

None

3

Jan 30

Rescheduled

None

The field of magnetized objects, H, linear media.

6.2.1-6.4.1

None

4

Feb 6

Ferromagnetism. 6.4.2

 

6.16, 6.17, 6.27

Ohms Law. 7.1.1

 

7.1, 7.2, 7.3

5

Feb 13

EMF, Faradays Law, Inductance 7.1.2-7.2.3

 

 

7.24, 7.25, 7.23, 7.26a, 7.27

More on Inductance, Magnetic Field Energy 7.2.4

 

7.28abc, 7.29, 7.30 (hint: get L from WB), 7.31

6

Feb 20

Exam 1.

Feb. 21

None

Rescheduled

None

7

Feb 27

Rescheduled

 

None

Exam 1 solutions

None

8

Mar 6

Maxwell Equations

7.3.1-7.3.5 

7.34, 7.37

Boundary conditions 7.3.6 Charge and energy conservation

8.1.1-8.1.2 

8.2

Mar 13

SPRING BREAK

9

Mar 20

Momentum

8.2.1-8.2.3 

[academic drop deadline]

8.3

Angular momentum etc.

8.2.4,8.3 

 

8.10a

10

Mar 27

Exam 2.

Mar 28

None

Exam 2 solutions

1D waves

9.1.1-9.1.2 

 

None

11

Apr 3

EM waves in vacuum

9.1.3-9.2.3 

 

9.2,9.9,9.13

Rescheduled

None

12

Apr 10

EM waves in matter

9.3.1-9.3.2 

 

 

None

EM waves in matter

9.3.3 

 

9.17

13

Apr 17

Absorption and dispersion

9.4.1-9.4.3 

 

 

None

Absorption and dispersion

9.4.3 

Potentials and Gauge Transformations

10.1.1-10.1.2 

 

9.20

14

Apr 24

Potentials and Gauge Transformations

10.1.3 

Retarded potentials

10.2.1

 

 

10.3, 10.11

Jefimenko Equations

10.2.2 

Lienard-Wichert Potentials

10.3.1 

 

10.15, 10.16

15

May 1

The Fields of a Moving Point Charge

10.3.2 

 

 

 

 

 

No class

Final Exam

Fri May 5

 

5:15-7:15pm

Rm 105