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

November

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
		1 lecture 15 Separation of variables method in shperical coordinates continued, Legendre polynomials, dipole field	2	3 lecture 16 Uniformly polarized sphere, conducting sphere in an external uniform electric field, electric field from a uniformly charged disk of finite radius	4 HW #8 due by 4pm	5
6	7	8 MIDTERM EXAM 12:30-1:45 pm in Gavett 312	9	10 lecture 17 Multipole expansion for a localized charge distribution	11 HW #9 due by 4pm	12
13	14	15 lecture 18 Monopole moment, dipole moment vector, and quadrupole mement tensor, dipolar potential and electric field in spherical coordinates and in coordinate free form, effect of choice of origin on dipole and quadrupole moments	16	17 lecture 19 Example of multipole expansion and computation of moments, dielectric materials and atomic polarizability last day to declare S/F or withdraw from courses	18	19
20	21 HW #10 due by 4pm	22 lecture 20 Force and torque on an electric dipole, polarization density, bound volume and surface charge densities, electric displacement field D	23 Thanksgiving recess	24 Thanksgiving recess	25 Thanksgiving recess	26 Thanksgiving recess
27 Thanksgiving recess	28	29 lecture 21 Linear dielectrics, electric susceptibility, permitivity, and dielectric constant, boundary conditions at interfaces of dielectrics, capacitance with dielectrics	30 lecture 22 Force on dielectrics, Clausius-Mossotti (Lorentz-Lorenz) relation makeup lecture 4:50 pm in Morey 205