October

October

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1
lecture canceled
2 3
lecture 6

Green's identities, uniquness of solutions to the Dirichlet and Neumann boundary value problem, Greens functions for Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions
4 5 6

7 8
lecture canceled
9 10
lecture 7

The image charge method for a charge in front of an infinite grounded plane and in front of a grounded conducting sphere, charge in front of a charged conducting sphere
11 12
HW #2 due by 2pm in homework locker
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14 15
Fall break
16
Fall break
17
lecture 8

Separation of variables method in rectangular and polar coordinates, electric field at a sharp edge, separation of variables in spherical coordinates
18 19
lecture 9

Legendre polynomials, examples of problems with azimuthal symmetry.

supplement

Eigenfunction expansion for the Greens function

make-up lecture 9:45-11:00am in Goergen 108
20

21 22
lecture 10

Electrostatic multipole expansion, monopole, dipole, quadrupole moments, dependence on choice of coordinate origin
23 24
lecture 11

Electric quadrupole example, magnetostatic multipole expansion, magnetic dipole approximation

HW #3 due
25 26 27

28 29
lecture 12

Some additional points on the electric quadrupole moment and the electric multipole expansion, magnetic dipole for a flat planar loop, magnetostatic scalar potential, boundary conditions at a sheet current, examples
30 31
lecture 13

More examples for the magnetic scalar potential, symmetry under parity transformations, vectors and psuedovectors, macroscopic Maxwell's equations

HW #4 due