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PHY 217: Electricity and Magnetism I
Prof. S. Teitel stte@pas.rochester.edu ---- Fall 2016

December

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lecture 23

Magnetostatics: current density, charge conservation, Biot-Savart Law, Lorentz force, cyclotron orbit, Maxwell's equations for magnetostatics, vector potential, Coulomb gauge

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lecture 24

Correspondance between magnetostatics and electrostatics, calculating B fields from the Biot-Savart Law, force between two current carrying wires, symmetry planes and magnetic fields

HW #11 due by 4pm

7

lecture 25

Solving for B using symmetries and Ampere's Law in integral form, boundry conditions crossing a surface current

makeup lecture 4:50 pm in Morey 205

8

lecture 26

Computing A from the integral solution to Poisson's equation, multipole expansion for the magnetic vector potential, magnetic dipole approximation, dipole moment for a piecewise planar current loop

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lecture 27

Force and torque on a magnetic dipole, paramagnetism, diamagnetism and ferromagnetism, magnetization density, bound currents, H field, linear magnetic materials

last day classes

14

reading period

HW #12 due by noon

15

reading period

16

reading period

17

final exams begin

18 19

FINAL EXAM 7:15-10:15 pm in Gavett 312

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last day final exams

winter recess begins

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