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PHY 142: Electricity & Magnetism (Honors)
Prof. S. Teitel stte@pas.rochester.edu ---- Fall 2009

September

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 history lecture 1 charge, Coulomb's law, superposition Read 1.1-1.4 classes begin	2	3 lecture 2 an example, electrostatic potential energy Read 1.5	4	5
6	7 Labor Day (no classes)	8 lecture 3 electric field and field lines; volume, surface, and line charge densities; field from a circluar loop and circular disk; review of Taylor series Read 1.7-1.8 recitation sections start today	9	10 lecture 4 flux of a vector field through a surface, Gauss' law Read 1.9-1.10	11 HW 1 due	12
13	14	15 lecture 5 application of Gauss' Law to problems with spherical, cyndrical and planar symmetry, discontinuity in E at a charged surface Read 1.11-1.13	16	17 lecture 6 force on a charged surface, line integrals, electrostatic potential Read 1.14-1.15, 2.1-2.2	18 HW 2 due	19
20	21	22 lecture 7 gradient, potential from charge distributions, potential from a disk, potential energy, divergence, Gauss' Theorem, Gauss' Law in differential form. Read 2.3-2.9	23	24 lecture 8 Poisson's equation for electrostatic potential, Laplace's equation, absence of stable electrostatic equilibria, definition and meaning of curl Read 2.10-2.16	25 HW 3 due	26
27	28	29 lecture 9 Stokes theorm, electrostatics in differential equation form, units of electrostatic potential, electrostatic potential energy and the electric field, properties of conductors in electrostatics, boundary value problems and uniqueness Read 3.1-3.3 last day to add or drop/delete courses	30