Physics 413: Introduction to Electrodynamics

318 Willamette Hall
MWF, 15:00-15:50

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 413: Introduction to Electrodynamics
Course CRN: 25004
Text: Introduction to Electrodynamics, 4th edition, D. J. Griffiths
Material: Chapters 5, 6, 7, and 8 (and possibly some of 9)
Class: 15:00-15:50, MWF
Room: 318 Willamette Hall

Grading:
Tests:

Week

Material

Homework

Due

1

Chapter 5.1-5.2: Magnetostatics; Lorentz force law, particle motion and currents, cyclotron motion, ExB drift, Work and energy, Biot-Savart law.

Hw 1, solutions

2016 Jan 15

2

Chapter 5.3-5.4: Magnetostatics; Divergence and Curl of B, vector potential A, scalar potential.

Hw 2, solutions

2016 Jan 22

3

Chapter 5.4: Magnetostatics; Biot-Savart Vector potential A, scalar potential, mulitpole formulation.

Hw 3, solutions

2016 Feb 1

4

Chapter 6.1-6.2: Magnetic Fields in Matter; diamgnetism, paramagnetism, ferromagnetism, forces and torques on mgnetic dipoles, microphysics of paramanagnetisma nd diamagnetism, Magnetization, M

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5

Chapter 6.1-6.2: Magnetic Fields in Matter; diamgnetism, paramagnetism, ferromagnetism, forces and torques on mgnetic dipoles, microphysics of paramanagnetism and diamagnetism, Magnetization, M, fields of a magnetized body, bound volume currents and bound surface currents, B-field calculation, definition of auxiliary field, H, use of H for calculation of B.

Hw 4, solutions

2016 Feb 12

6

Chapter 6.3-6.4: Magnetic Fields in Matter; B-field calculation, definition of auxiliary field, H, H-field calculation, calculation of magnetization M, linear vs nonlinear materials, ferromagnetism.

Hw 5, solutions

2016 Feb 19

7

Chapter 7.1-7.2: Electrodynamics; Conductors and Ohm's Law, continuity equation, Ohmic losses, Joule heating, power, electromotive force, resistivce emf, battery, motional emf, magnetic flux, changing magnetic flux and emf, generators/motors, time-varying magnetic fields.

Hw 6, solutions

2016 Feb 26

8

Chapter 7.2-7.3: Electrodynamics; electromotive force (emf) (cont'd), emfs from motions and time-varying magnetic fields, Maxwell's equations (Faraday's law), inductance (self-inductance and mutual inductance), Ampere's law, energy.

Hw 7

2016 Mar 7

9

Chapter 7.3: Electrodynamics; Maxwell's equations (Faraday's law), inductance (self-inductance and mutual inductance), Ampere's law, displacement current, magnetic monopoles, Cabrera experiment

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10

Chapter 8: Conservation Laws, Continuity equations and conservation laws, electromagnetic energy and Poynting vector, Poynting's Theorem, Newton's Third Law in electrodynamics, electromagnetic momentum density, the Maxwell Stress Tensor, Angular Momentum of the electromagnetic field, charge quantization and the Dirac monopole

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