Physics 142 - Fall 2010 - University of Rochester
Electricity and Magnetism
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"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
- Thomas Alva Edison, Life (1932)
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Instructor/office hours: 
Steve Manly, Department of Physics and Astronomy
reach via email: steven.manly@rochester.edu
reach via phone: 585-275-8473
reach via feet: B&L 203E
Manly's office hours: Tuesday 4-5 pm and Wednesday 5-6 pm or by appointment (send email and we'll find a time that works)
Workshop leaders:
Andrew Vigoren
avigoren@unm.edu
Andrew's office hour: Tuesday 10-11 in B&L 304
Adam Lanman
adam.lanman@rochester.edu
Adam's office hour: Monday 2:30-3:30 in B&L 426
Workshop section times:
Monday 2:40-4:40 pm, MEL 218
Monday 6:15-8:15 pm, B&L 269
Tuesday 5:30-7:30 pm, CSB 209
Tuesday 6:15-8:15 pm, Hutch 138
Wednesday 4:50-6:50 pm, B&L 270
Laboratory:
email physlabs@pas.rochester.edu with question/issues
Presentation project information
topic list (stay tuned)
Applets (copyright UR and Truth & Beauty software)
Coulomb
Electric field
Electric flux
Magnetic field and charged particle
Magnetostatics about current-carrying wire
Induction
Electromagnetic waves
Polarization of electromagnetic waves
Lectures:
Lect 1 - Sept. 1, 2010 - Intro to course, Coulomb's law
Lect 2 - Sept. 7, 2010 - Coulomb's law, electric field, (Slides in PDF, Audio 64 kbps, Audio 16kbps)
Lect 3 - Sept. 9, 2010 - Electric field, (Slides in PDF, Audio 64 kbps, Audio 16 kbps)
Lect 4 - Sept. 14, 2010 - Gauss' law (Slides in PDF, Audio 64kbps, Audio 16 kbps)
Lect 5 - Sept. 16, 2010 - Curvilinear coordinates, Gauss' law (Slides in PDF, Audio 64 kbps, Audio 16 kbps)
Lect 6 - Sept. 21, 2010 - Gauss' law, electric potential (audio )
Lect 7 - Sept. 23, 2010 - Electric potential (audio )
Lect 8 - Sept. 28, 2010 - capacitance (audio )
Lect 9 - Sept. 30, 2010 - energy in electric field, dielectrics ( audio )
Lect 10 - Oct. 5, 2010 - Resistance, Kirchoff's laws ( audio )
Lect 11 - Oct. 7, 2010 - RC circuits ( audio )
Lect 12 - Oct. 12, 2010 - Special theory of relativity ( audio )
Lect 14 - Oct. 14, 2010 - Relativity, start of magnetism ( audio )
Lect 15 - Oct. 19, 2010 - Lorentz force law, Biot-Savart ( audio )
Lect 16 - Oct. 21, 2010 - Biot-Savart, Ampere's law ( audio )
Lect 17 - Oct. 26, 2010 - Ampere's law, induction (audio )
Lect 18 - Oct. 28, 2010 - Induction (audio )
Lect 19 - Nov. 2, 2010 - Induction ( audio )
Lect 20 - Nov. 4, 2010 - AC circuits (no audio available)
Lect 21 - Nov. 9, 2010 - Magnetic fields in materials ( audio )
Lect 22 - Nov. 11, 2010 - Maxwell's equations ( audio )
Lect 23 - Nov. 16, 2010 - Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic waves ( audio )
Lect 24 - Nov. 18, 2010 - Energy and pressure in electromagnetic waves ( audio )
Lect 25 - Nov. 23, 2010 - Polarization of EM waves ( audio )
Lect 26 - Nov. 30 and a bit on Dec. 2, 2010 - Geometric optics
Problem sets:
Problem set 1, due Sept. 9, 2010
Problem set 2, due Sept. 16, 2010
Problem set 3, due Sept. 23, 2010
Problem set 4, due Sept. 30, 2010
Problem set 5, due Oct. 14, 2010
Problem set 6, due Oct. 21, 2010
Problem set 7, due Oct. 28, 2010
Problem set 8, due Nov. 4, 2010
Problem set 9, due Nov. 11, 2010
Problem set 10, due Dec. 2, 2010
Problem set 11, due Dec. 9, 2010
Problem set solutions:
Workshop modules:
Workshop 1, for week of Sept. 13, 2010
Workshop 2, for week of Sept. 20, 2010
Workshop 3, for week of Sept. 27, 2010
Workshop 4, for week of Oct. 4, 2010
Workshop 5, for week of Oct. 11, 2010
Workshop 6, for week of Oct. 18, 2010
Workshop 7, for week of Oct. 25, 2010
Workshop 8, for week of Nov. 1, 2010
Workshop 9, for week of Nov. 8, 2010
Workshop 10, for week of Nov. 22, 2010
Workshop 11, for week of Nov. 29, 2010
Workshop 12, for week of Dec. 7, 2010