October

October

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This course schedule is approximate. The exam dates are fixed. Exam subject matter will change as appropriate for the material covered. Links to daily lecture notes are given below.

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1
in-class exam 1
2 3

4 5
Fall Break (no classes)
6
lecture 10

field in a cavity inside a conductor, example, image charge method for a charge in front of a flat conducting plane

Read 3.4
7 8
lecture 11

Capacitance and capacitors, energy stored in a capacitor, electric currents

Read 3.5, 3.7, 4.1

Meliora Weekend
9
HW 4 due

Meliora Weekend
10
Meliora Weekend

11
Meliora Weekend
12 13
lecture 12

current density, conservation of charge, steady currents, electric conductivity, Ohm's law, resistance, Drude model

Read 4.2-4.4
14 15
lecture 13

Electric circuits, Kirchoff's laws, resistors in series and parallel, energy dissipation, electromotive forces and batteries, capacitors in circuits and RC time constant

Read 4.7-4.11
16
HW 5 due
17

18 19 20
lecture 14

magnetostatics: Lorentz force, magnetic field, field from a straight infinite wire, Ampere's law

Read 5.1-5.2, 6.1-6.2
21 22
lecture 15

MKS vs CGS units in magnetostatics, computing magnetic field from wires, planes and solenoids with Ampere's law

Read 6.3-6.6
23
HW 6 due
24

25 26 27
lecture 16

Jump in B at surface current, force on surface current, magnetic vector potential

Read 6.3-6.6
28 29
lecture 17

Biot-Savart law, magnetic field from a ring, finite solenoid, rotating disk, Hall effect

Read 6.8-6.9
30
HW 7 due
31