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110 Willamette Hall |
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110 Willamette Hall |
Course: Physics 412: Introduction to Electrodynamics |  |
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Chapter 2: Electrostatics, the Coulomb Force Law,
the Electric field, Principle of Superposition (and linear fields),
Visualization of electric fields, Earnshaw's Theorem and linear stability
analyses, continuous charge distributions.
Problem Set 1, | ||
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Chapter 2: Electrostatics,
Electric fields and forces of continuous charge distributions,
Divergence and Curl of the Electric field, Gauss's Law, Gauss's Law and
point charges, the electric scalar potential.
Problem Set 2, Solutions10/16/2009 | ||
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Chapter 2: Electrostatics,
The scalar potential, V, and the curl of E and Stokes's Theorem,
conservative forces, single particle energy equation and the potential
energy of a particle in an EM field (interaction energy),
calculation of the scalar potential,
boundary conditions at discontinuities, electrostatic
energy of a charge distribution, conductors.
Problem Set 3, | ||
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Chapter 2: Electrostatics,
electrostatic
energy of a charge distribution, Earnshaw's theorem and corollary,
conductors.
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Test 1: 10/23/2009 |
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Chapter 3: Special Techniques,
Laplace's Equation, Poisson's Equation, Uniqueness Theorems, Solutions to
Laplace's Equation in one-dimension in Cartesian, Polar, Spherical Polar,
and Cylindrical coordinate systems. Special techniques for the Poisson
Equation, the Method of Images.
Problem Set 4,Problem Set 5 | ||
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Chapter 3: Special Techniques, Separation of Variables and the Laplace
Equation in Cartesian, Cylindrical, and Spherical Polar coordinates, Fourier
Series and Dirichlet's Theorem, completeness and orthogonality,
Legendre polynomials, Rodrigues function, generating function.
3.12,3.13,3.16,3.18,3.21,3.22, | ||
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Chapter 3: Special Techniques, Separation of Variables and the Laplace
Equation in Spherical Polar coordinates, Fourier
Series and Dirichlet's Theorem, completeness and orthogonality,
Legendre polynomials, Rodrigues function, generating function; and
Multipole expansions, monopole, dipole, quadrupole, octupole, ..., and
moments.
3.23,3.24,3.26,3.28,3.32,3.40, | ||
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Chapter 3: Special Techniques, Multipole expansions;
Chapter 4, Electric Fields in Matter (dielectrics), polarizability,
orientational polarization, Polarization, polarization charges, fields
of polarized objects.
Test solutionsTest 2: 11/20/2009 | ||
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Chapter 4, Electric Fields in Matter (dielectrics), polarizability,
orientational polarization, Langevin Equation, Susceptibility,
Polarization, polarization charges, fields
of polarized objects, Displacement field D,
linear isotropic, homogeneous dielectrics.
4.4,4.6,4.10,4.15,4.19,4.21,4.24,4.28, |