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Physics 415: Electromagnetic Theory I
Prof. S. Teitel stte@pas.rochester.edu ----- Fall 2002

September

(note: this calendar may be revised as the semester progresses)

September | October | November | December

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
1	2	3	4 Lecture 1 Electrostatics: Coulomb's law, electric field, charge density, Gauss' law	5	6	7
8	9 Lecture 2 Magnetostatics: Lorentz force, Biot-Savart law, magnetic field, current density, local charge conservation, Ampere's law; Dynamics: Faraday's law, Maxwell's correction to Ampere's law, Maxwell's equations, systems of units	10	11 Lecture 3 Electromagnetic potentials: scalar and vector potentials for statics and dynamics, gauge invarience, Lorentz gauge, Coulomb gauge	12	13	14
15	16 Lecture Canceled	17	18 Lecture 4 Electrostatics: solving Poisson's equation for simple geometries, conductors in electrostatics, behavior at surface charge layers	19	20	21
22	23 Lecture 5 Boundary value problem for Poisson's equation, uniqueness, Green functions HW#1 due	24	25 Lecture 6 Image charge method	26	27	28
29	30 Lecture 7 Separation of variables method: rectangular and polar coordinates