September

September

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Labor Day
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classes begin
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lecture 1

Coulombs law, the electric field, differential and integral form of Maxwell's equations for electrostatics
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lecture 2

Lorentz force, the magnetic field, Biot-Savart law, current density, charge conservation and the definition of magnetostatics, Maxwell's equations for magnetostatics
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lecture 3

Faraday's Law, Maxwell's correction to Ampere's Law, EM waves, systems of units, scalar and vector potentials, gauge invariance, Lorentz gauge
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lecture 4

Coulomb gauge, Longitudinal and transverse parts of a vector function, review of Fourier transforms
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lecture 5

Physical meaning of the electrostatic potential, Green's function, conductors in electrostatics, Coulomb problem as a boundary value problem, electric field at a charged surface, Dirichlet vs Neumann boundary condition
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lecture 6

Examples, Green's identities and uniqueness, the image charge method for a charge in front of an infinite plane

supplement

Green's function for Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions

HW 1 due
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lecture 7

Image charges continued, charge in front of a conducting sphere
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lecture 8

Separation of variables method in rectangular and polar coordinates