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PHY 142: Electricity & Magnetism (Honors)
Prof. S. Teitel stte@pas.rochester.edu ---- Fall 2009
December
September | October | November | December
This course schedule is approximate. The exam dates are fixed. Exam subject matter will change as appropriate for the material covered. Links to daily lecture notes are given below.
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lecture 24
Maxwell's correction to Ampere's law, Maxwell's equations in a vacuum, the wave equation, simple harmonic electromagnetic waves
Read 9.1-9.4
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lecture 25
Plane waves, Maxwell's Equations in MKS units, standing waves, reflection from a planar conducting surface, energy in EM waves, spherical waves
Read 9.4-9.6
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HW 10 due
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lecture 26
Dielectrics, atomic polarization, polarization density, electric susceptibility, bound surface charge
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lecture 27
Bound volume charge, energy of electric dipole in an electric field, ferroelectrics, the displacement field D, the dielectric constant, capacitors with dielectrics, magnetic materials
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last day of classes
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reading period
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reading period
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reading period
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final exams begin
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final exam, 4 pm, Hoyt Aud
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final exams end
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