Physics 412: Introduction to Electrodynamics

110 Willamette Hall
MWF, 11:00-11:50

Instructor: James N. Imamura
Office: 444 Willamette Hall
E-mail: imamura@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5212
Office Hours: Tu 10-noon, Th noon-2 pm, 444 (or 441) Willamette Hall

Course: Physics 412: Introduction to Electrodynamics
Course CRN: ...
Text: Introduction to Electrodynamics, 3rd edition, D. J. Griffiths
Class: 11:00-11:50, MWF
Room: 110 Willamette Hall

Grading:
Tests:

Week

Material

Homework

Due

1

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,
Solutions

10/9/2009

2

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, Solutions

10/16/2009

3

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,
Solutions

Not to be turned in

Test 1: 10/23/2009

4

Chapter 2: Electrostatics, electrostatic energy of a charge distribution, Earnshaw's theorem and corollary, conductors.

test 1 Solutions

Test 1: 10/23/2009

5

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,
Solutions,
Problem Set 5
Solutions

10/30/2009
11/06/2009

6

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,
Solutions

11/13/2009

7

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,
Solutions

not to be turned in

8

Chapter 3: Special Techniques, Multipole expansions; Chapter 4, Electric Fields in Matter (dielectrics), polarizability, orientational polarization, Polarization, polarization charges, fields of polarized objects.

Test solutions

Test 2: 11/20/2009

9

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,
Solutions

12/04/2009