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

September

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
				1 lecture 1 Coulomb's law, principle of superposition, electric field, volume charge density, surface charge density, line charge density, surface integrals, line integrals	2	3
4	5 Labor Day, no classes	6 lecture 2 Review of Cartesian, spherical, and cylindrical coordinate systems, differential displacement, differential volume element, and differential surface element, electric field from a uniformly charged spherical shell	7	8 lecture 3 Electric field from a uniformly charged sphere and from a stright wire segment, review of the gradient operator	9 HW #1 due by 4pm	10
11	12	13 lecture 4 Divergence, curl, Laplacian and 2nd derivatives, differential operators in spherical and cylindrical coordinates, divergence of E for a point charge	14	15 lecture 5 Gauss' Theorem, Stokes' Theorem, field lines, Gauss' Law of electrostatics in integral and differential form, Dirac delta function	16 HW #2 due by 4pm	17
18	19	20 lecture 6 Dirac delta functions, Mawxell's equations for electrostatics, Helmholtz's Theorem	21	22 lecture 7 Solving electrostatic problems using Gauss' Law in integral and differential form, the electrostatic potential	23 HW #3 due by 4pm	24
25	26	27 lecture 8 Examples computing electrostatic potential, boundary conditions on electric field at a surface charge, energy stored in an electrostatic configuration	28 last date to delete course	29 lecture 9 Electrostatic energy of continuous charge distributions, self energy vs interaction energy, infinite energy of point charges and the classical electron radius	30 HW #4 due by 4pm