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Physics 330 Intermediate Electricity and Magnetism Lecture: MWF 12:301:20pm in PHYS 333 Professor: Brian A. Todd Email: [email protected] Tel: (765) 4943004 Office: PHYS 68 Office Hour: Tues 1:302:30 or by appointment, not MWF before class TA: Xuefeng Yuan Email: [email protected] Tel: (765) 4966285 Office: PHYS Library Office Hour: By appointment Course Web: http://www.physics.purdue.edu/academic_programs/courses/phys330/ (Check in for announcements, homework sets, solutions, etc.) Textbook: Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics, 3rd Ed. (1999) Course Schedule: The course will be scheduled around three major topics: 1. Electrostatics (Chapt. 24, ~6 weeks) 2. Magnetostatics (Chapt. 56, Faraday's Experiment, ~ 4 weeks) 3. Electromagnetism/Electrodynamics (Chapt. 7 and beyond, ~4 weeks) There will be two inclass midterms, one each covering topics 1 and 2, and a comprehensive final exam. The exam dates will be announced later. Grading 15% Homework/quiz (not accepted late, picked up at 12:30 SHARP on due date) 25% Midterm 1, Electrostatics 25% Midterm 2, Magnetostatics, Faraday's Experiment 35% Final Exam, Electromagnetism and Comprehensive No class: MLK day, January 19, 2009 Week 1: 1/12 Electromagnetism Overview, Discrete Electrostatics: Coulomb's Law, Superposition, Electric Field, Electrostatics Problem Solving Read Griffiths: Advertisement: pg. xixv, Section 1.14, pg. 810, Section 2.1, pg. 5861 Week 2: 1/19 Field Lines (2.2.1), Continuous Electrostatics (2.2.1), Curvilinear Coordinates (1.4), Gauss's Law in Integral Form (2.1.4 up to Eq. 2.13 and 2.2.3) Week 3: Electric Potential (2.3), Work and Energy (2.4) 1/26 Week 4: Conductors and capacitors (2.5), Derivative, gradient, del, and divergence (1.2.14), Differential forms for electrostatics, Laplace's Eq. (3.1) 2/2 Week 5: Laplace's Eq. (3.1), Image Charges (3.2), Separation of Variables (3.3), Dipoles, Multipoles, and Multipole Expansion (3.4) 2/9 Week 6: Electric fields in Insulators, Polarization (4.14.3) 2/16 Week 7: Linear dielectrics (4.4) 2/23 Week 8: March 2, 2009: Midterm Exam I, Linear dielectrics (4.4) 3/2 Week 9: Magnetostatics, BiotSavart Law (5.15.2) 3/9 Week 10: Ampere's Law, Differential Forms, Magnetic Vector Potential (5.35.4) 3/23 Week 11: Magnetic Vector Potential (5.4), Magnetization (Chapter 6) 3/30 Week 12: Magnetization (Chapter 6), Electrodynamics (Chapter 7.17.3) 4/6 4/6 Week 13: Electrodynamics (Chapter 7.17.3), April 17, 2009: Midterm Exam II, Location: ARMS 1010, Content: Chapt. 5,6, and Faraday's Experiment 4/13 from Chapter 7.1.37.2.2 (inclusive) Week 14: 4/20 Week 15: 4/27 Final Exam: Fri 05/08, 10:20a – 12:20p, EE 117 (from https://www.smas.purdue.edu/Timetabling/exams.do?select=1&type=final on Mar 30, 2009)