Physics 142 - Fall 2005 - University of Rochester
Electricity and Magnetism
News:
We're done!
Grades status: Final exam distributions are posted at the links below. I'm still working on the rest of the calculations/grades.
Ponder this:
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
- Thomas Alva Edison, Life (1932)
Important Links:
Best numerical average distribution and letter grade boundaries
Exam grades not as good as you would like? Try the Troubleshooting guide.
Manly's regrade and exam question policy
Bored? Check these out:
U Colorado modern physics site
Instructor/office hours: 
Steve Manly, Department of Physics and Astronomy
reach via email: steven.manly@rochester.edu
reach via phone: 585-275-8473
reach via feet: B&L 203E
Manly's office hours: Tuesday 1-3 or by appointment
Workshop leaders: 
Julie Langenbrunner
julie@pas.rochester.edu
Julie's office hour: Monday 3:30-4:30, B&L 478
Drew Abrams
dabrams@pas.rochester.edu
Drew's office hour: Wednesday in the POA (Physics and Astronomy library) from 1:30-2:30
Laboratory:
email physlabs@pas.rochester.edu with question/issues
Project and PRS information
Lectures:
Lect 1 - Sept. 1, 2005 - intro (ppt), Coulomb's law (ppt) (pdf)
Lect 2 - Sept. 6, 2005 - Electric field (ppt) (pdf)
Lect 3 - Sept. 8, 2005 - Electric field, flux (pdf)
Lect 4 - Sept. 13, 2005 - Gauss' Law
Lect 5 - Sept. 15, 2005 - Curvilinear coordinates, Gauss, potential
Lect 6 - Sept. 20, 2005 - electric potential
Lect 7 - Sept. 22, 2005 - electric potential, capacitance
Lect 8 - Sept. 27, 2005 - capacitors, electrostatic energy
Lect 9 - Sept. 29, 2005 - electrostatic energy, current, dielectrics
Lect 10 - Oct. 4, 2005 - current, Kirchoff's laws
Lect 11 - Oct. 6, 2005 - RC circuits (pdf) relativity (ppt.)
Lect 12 - Oct. 11, 2005 - Relativity
Lect 13 - Oct. 12, 2005 - Relativity, Lorentz force law, cross product
Cross product online applets (from Syracuse physics)
television applet (from U. Colorado physics, pick thumbnails and bending beams I applet)
Lect 14 - Oct. 18, 2005 - Law of Biot-Savart
Lect 15 - Oct. 20, 2005 - Ampere's Law
Lect 16 - Oct. 25, 2005 - Induction, Faraday's Law, Lenz's Law
Lect 17 - Oct. 27, 2005 - LR, LC circuits
Lect 18 - Nov. 1, 2005 - AC circuits
Lect 19 - Nov. 3, 2005 - magnetic fields in materials
Lect 20 - Nov. 8, 2005 - Maxwell's equations, divergence, curl
Lect 21 - Nov. 10, 2005 - Maxwell's equations, differential form
Lect 22 - Nov. 15, 2005 - Maxwell's equations, em waves
Lect 23 - Nov. 17, 2005 - Review of waves
Lect 24 - Nov. 22, 2005 - Energy flow and momentum in EM waves
Lect 25 - Nov. 29, 2005 - EM waves, polarization
Lect 26 - Dec. 1, 2005 - Geometric optics
Lect 27 - Dec. 6, 2005 - Physical optics slides in pdf, streaming video
Problem sets:
Problem set 1 (ppt) (pdf), due Sept. 8, 2005
Problem set 2 (pdf), due Sept. 15, 2005
Problem set 3, due Sept. 22, 2005
Problem set 4, due Sept. 29, 2005
Problem set 5, due October 13, 2005
Problem set 6, due October 20, 2005
Problem set 7, due October 27, 2005
Problem set 8, due November 3, 2005
Problem set 9, due November 10, 2005
Problem set 10, due November 17, 2005
Problem set 11, due December 1, 2005
Problem set 12, due December 8, 2005
Problem set solutions:
Workshop modules:
Workshop 1, for week of Sept. 12, 2005
Workshop 2, for week of Sept. 19, 2005
Workshop 3, for week of Sept. 26, 2005
Workshop 4, for week of Oct. 3, 2005
Workshop 5, for week of Oct. 10, 2005
Workshop 6, for week of Oct. 17, 2005
Workshop 7, for week of Oct. 24, 2005
Workshop 8, for week of Oct. 31, 2005
Workshop 9, for week of Nov. 7, 2005
Workshop 10, for week of Nov. 21, 2005
Workshop 11, for week of Nov. 28, 2005
Workshop 12, for week of Dec. 5, 2005