Physics 301- Spring 2024
Electricity and Magnetism I
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Note: Lectures will begin Monday Jan8
Midterm
Wednesday Feb 28 in class.
Note: I send emails to the class via the registrar's email lists for
this course. Please make sure that you have registered your email with the
university.
Unfortunately some service providers see this as an indication that this
is spam and dumps the mail into a junk, or spam, or other labeled
folder. I do not know how to get around this as I do not want to give
everyone everyone else's email, I do not want to enter all 50 separate
email addresses as separate emails, but I want people to get them.
Please remember to look into your junk/spam/... folder as well if you do not
get the emails for this class.
Plagerism, cheating, etc
In one word NO
Ian Cavers (Associate Dean of Science) has already sent more cheating cases from Science to the President's Advisory
Committees on Student Discipline (PACSD) than PACSD normally deals with in a full year from the
whole university, and he is doing a lot of filtering. So please -
- Talk to your students early in course about cheating - what it is, why they should not do
it, and even though it is easier to do it now, it is easier to catch as all the necessary
evidence is readily available.
- Be explicit and detailed about integrity expectations in your posted course outline and exam
instructions
- Tell students what happens if they are suspected of cheating:
- Interview with instructors and undergraduate chair, and if response is unsatisfactory -
- Zero on course component (e.g. exam) and report sent to Dean's Office, then -
- Interview with the Associate Dean, then -
- At least: Letter of reprimand on permanent file
- More serious cases and all second offences: Move to President's Disciplinary
Committee, with consequences up to and including expulsion
Notes
- In the introduction (chapter 1) of his text, Advanced Classical
Electromagnetism, R Wald argues that the teaching of
Electromagnetism in general enculcates myths about the field
to the students in the way it is taught. I tend to share at
least some of his viewpoint. In the
Amazon.com page
he outlines some of these "Myths". This chapter is available
under the "Read Sample" button under the cover picture, and is
worth reading.
- Coordinates Vectors and Tensors (Various alterations made Jan 13)(and
and a few on Jan 15 in the first sections.) [ And misprints in
equations 22 to 28. Also the transformation of the inverse metric
added after eqn 30.
- Div Grad Curl (aditions and
corrections Jan 23-2024 5:30PM)
- Maxwell's Equations (some small
alteration Jun 28)
- Electric Potential, delta function,
and Green's functions (signs and minor corrections
Feb 3)
- Uniqueness and use of mirror charges for
solution
- Use of Green;s function to solve boundary
condition problem for potential (example added Jan
12 and an addition proving the mean value thm added Jan 15)
- Spherical Harmonics (Corrections plus
additions Feb 15) (misprint fixed Mar 13)
- Derivation of Spherical Harmonics
- Electromagnetic Energy, flows, Momentum,
and Forces
- Magnetic solution and Electric and
Magnetic dipole moments (This has been expanded and
changed Mar 23,24 2024)
- Aharonov Bohm effect.
- Aharonov Bohm experiment by Tonomura et al,
- Electrostatics in Media(added
section and corrected misprint Apr3 and Apr 4 picture added
Apr 5)
- Magnetostatics in Media (corrected
misprints)
- Review (midprints fixed and a couple
of extra items inserted that I forgot about)
Recorded Lectures
Lectures
Assignments and Solutions
The assignements and solutions are included in pdf form.They can be viewed
with Acroread Acrobat Reader (Acroread) or if you run Linux, with gvi,okular,
xpdf,...
The assignments are now posted to Canvas, and should be turned in to
Canvas. The instructions in the next paragraph are still possible, but should be avoided.
If not handed in in class, please send the assignments by email to the TA
who will be marking it or to me. As a last possibility, put assignments into box on shelf outside my
room (in 311 Hennings) labeled Phys 301. (Not into the metal sorting rack but into the box)
The box is inside Rm 311 Hennings-- go right into the room up to the table,
then turn right. The shelf is on your right. My office is straight ahead of
you.
If you send it by email, make sure that you put Phys 301 into the subject so
that I or the TA can easily identify such papers/assignments so they can be
marked.