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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.

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
  1

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

2 3

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

4 5
6 7

HW 10 due

8

lecture 26

Dielectrics, atomic polarization, polarization density, electric susceptibility, bound surface charge

9 10

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

11

last day of classes

12

reading period

13

reading period

14

reading period

15

final exams begin

16 17 18 19

final exam, 4 pm, Hoyt Aud

20 21

final exams end

22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31