Click on the links in the left column for assignments, and the right column for solutions (password protected).
 
Assignment Due date Topic Solutions
1 2 Sep 2025  Vector algebra and calculus 1s
2 9 Sep 2025  Vector calculus; Coulomb's law 2s
3 16 Sep 2025 Calculations with Coulomb's Law, Gauss's Law, and superposition 3s
4 23 Sep 2025 Conductors: calculations with Coulomb's and Gauss's laws; solution of Poisson equation in 1-D   4s
5 30 Sep 2025 Laplace-equation solutions; more practice with vector identities; linear stability I 5s
6 7 Oct 2025  More Laplace solutions; potential of extended multipoles; linear stability II and Earnshaw's Theorem 6s
7 14 Oct 2025 Method of images 7s
8 28 Oct 2025 Electric polarization; capacitors; linear dielectrics  8s
9 4 Nov 2025 Linear dielectrics in Laplace-equation boundary-value problems; capacitive oil pump; current distributions; forces on dielectrics and between currents; magnetic field from coaxial current-loop pairs 9s
10 11 Nov 2025 B from Biot-Savart and Ampere laws; magnetic vector potential 10s
11 18 Nov 2025 Magnetic multipoles; magnetic polarization; forces and torques on dipoles; motional EMF; more practice with vector identities 11s
12 25 Nov 2025 More motional EMF; induction of E calculated from Faraday's Law 12s
13 9 Dec 2025 Mutual and self inductance; energy and momentum in electromagnetic fields; use of the Maxwell stress tensor; ideal magnetohydrodynamics    13s
 
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