September

September

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1 2
Labor Day, no classes
3 4
lecture 2

From Coulomb to Maxwell: Helmholtz's Theorem, Lorentz force, the magnetic field, Biot-Savart law, current density, local charge conservation and the definition of magnetostatics, Maxwell's equations for magnetostatics
5 6 7

8 9
lecture 3

Faraday's Law, Maxwell's correction to Ampere's Law, EM waves, systems of units, scalar and vector potentials in statics, potentials and gauge invariance in dynamics
10 11
lecture 4

Lorentz gauge, Coulomb gauge, longitudinal and transverse parts of a vector function, review of Fourier transforms
12 13 14

15 16
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, examples
17 18
lecture 6

Green's identities, uniquness of solutions to the Dirichlet and Neumann boundary value problem, Greens functions for Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions, the image charge method for a charge in front of an infinite grounded plane
19 20
HW #1 due 2pm
21

22 23
lecture 7

The image charge method for a charge in front of a grounded, a charged, and a neutral conducting sphere
24 25
lecture 8

Separation of variables method in rectangular and polar coordinates, electric field at a sharp edge
26 27
HW #2 due 2pm
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29 30
lecture canceled