University of New Mexico

Physics 405 Spring 2007

Electricity and Magnetism

University of New Mexico

Department of Physics and Astronomy

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General Information

Lecture: Physics and Astronomy, Room 184, 11:00-11:50.

Problem Session: Physics and Astronomy, Room 5, 2:00-2:50.

Instructor: Prof. Ivan Deutsch

Phys/Astro Room 24, Phone: 277-1502

email: ideutsch@unm.edu

Office Hours: Thrusdays 2:00-2:50 (or by appointment)

Teaching Assistant: Alexandre Baron Tacla

email: tacla@unm.edu

Text:

Introduction to Electrodynamics, Third Edition, by David Griffiths, (Required)

Other Recommended Texts:

Electricity and Magnetism (Second Edition), by E. M. Purcell
Div-Grad-Curl and All That, by Schey

Requirements:

Math 311 and 316 (required).
Problem sets will be distributed in class, about once a week. Assignments will be due on Friday in class. NO LATE ASSIGNMENTS will be accepted except in special cases. Cooperation is encourage, but final solution should be independent.
Homework will serve to give practice in problem solving, to reinforce concepts developed in class, as well as serve to supplement topics not covered in lecture.

Grading:

Problem Sets: 25%

There will be approximately 10 problem sets due Friday in class.

Midterm Exams : 40%

Midterm 1: Feb. 14

Midterm 2: Apr. 4

Final Exam: 25%

Exam Date: Wed. May 9, 10:00-12:00

Participation: 10%

Tentative Syllabus

I. Vector Calculus (2 Weeks)
A. Vector Analysis, Curvilinear Coordinates
B. Div-Grad-Curl and all that

II. Electrostatics (6 weeks)
A. Coulomb's Law, Charge Distributions, Fields
B. Gauss’ Law
C. Electrostatic Potential, Work Energy
D. Multipole Expansion
E. Conductors and Capacitance
F. Laplace’s Equation: Boundary Valued Problems
G. Electrostatics in Dielectrics

III. Magnetostatics (4 weeks)
A. Lorentz Force Law, Motion of charged particles
B. Electric Currents: Continuity Equation
C. Biot-Savart Law
D. Ampère’s Law
E. The Vector Potential, Magnetic multipoles
F. Magnetic fields in matter

IV. Intro. to Electrodynamics (2 weeks)
A. Ohm's Law and Electromotive Force
B. Faraday's Law, Inductance, and Energy in Magnetic Fields

Tentative Schedule of Lectures


Jan. 17	Class overview, intro. Vectors and Fields	G. Chap.0, 1.2 Download 1
Jan. 19	Curvilinear Coordinates, Gradient	G. Chap1.2.2-.3, 1.4 Download 2
Jan. 17	Vector Differential Calculus: Divergence & Curl	G. Chap. 1.2.4-.6 Download 3
Jan. 24	Fundamental theorem of integral calculus Surface Integrals and Divergence Theorem Line inetgrals and Stokes's Theorem	G. Chap. 1.3 Download 4
Jan. 26	Continuation
Jan. 29	Coulomb's Law, Charge Distributions, Fields	G. Chap. 2.1 Download 5
Jan. 31	Calculations of E-fields	G. Chap. 2.2.1, 2.2.3 Download 6
Feb. 2	Gauss' Law	G. Chap. 2.2.1, 2.1.3 Download 7
Feb. 5	The electrostastic field: Div amd Curl of E	G. Chap. 2.2.2, 2.2.4 Download 8
Feb. 7	The Electrostatic Potential	G.Chap. 2.3 Download 9
Feb. 9	Work and Energy in Electrostatic	G.Chap. 2.4 Download 10
Feb. 12	Continuation
Feb. 14	Conductors	G.Chap. 2.5.1-2.5.2 Download 11
Feb. 16	No Class
Feb. 19	Capacitance	G.Chap. 2.5.4 Download 12
Feb. 21	Exam #1 Vectors-Electrostatic Field and Potential
Feb. 23	Exam Review
Feb. 26	Introduction to Laplaces Equation: Uniqueness and boundary conditions.	G.Chap. 3.1 Download 13
Feb. 28	Method of images.	G.Chap. 3.2 Download 14
Mar. 2	Separation of variables: Cartesian coordinates. Mathematica Supplements: .nb and .pdf	G.Chap. 3.3.1 Download 15
Mar. 5	Separation of variables: Spherical coordinates.	G.Chap. 3.3.2 Download 16
Mar. 7	Continuation
Mar. 9	No Class	G.Chap. 3.3.3
Mar.12-16	Spring Break
Mar. 19	Examples
Mar. 21	Multipole expansion (I)	G.Chap. 3.4.1-3.4.2 Download 17
Mar. 23	Multipole expansion (II)	G.Chap. 3.4.3-3.4.4 Download 18
Mar. 26	Continuation
Mar. 28	Intro to dielectrics: Polarizable material, fields on polar material	G.Chap. 4.1 Download 18
Mar. 30	Electrostatics in dielectric materials Field of polarizabilized material. Electric diplacement	G.Chap. 4.2 Download 19
Apr. 2	Electrostatics in dielectric materials Gaus's law, image problems in dielectrics	G.Chap. 4.3 Download 20
Apr. 4	Work, energy, and capacitances in dielectrics	G.Chap. 4.3 Download 21
Apr. 6	Intro to magneto-statics: Lorentz force, sources of magnetic fields, continuity eqn.	G. Chap 5.1 Download 22
Apr. 9	Biot-Savart Law	G. Chap. 5.2 Download 23
Apr. 11	Properties of the magneto-stattic field	G. Chap. 5.3.1-.2 Download 24
Apr. 13	Exam II: Griffiths Chapters 3 and 4 Laplaces Eqn., Multipolrs, Dielectrics
Apr. 16	Continuation
Apr. 18	Ampoere's Law	G. Chap. 5.3.3.-4, 5.4.2 Download 25
Apr. 20	Continuation
Apr. 23	No Class
Apr. 25	Vector potential	G. Chap. 5.4.1.-2 Download 26
Apr. 25b	Make-up Multipole expansion in magnetostatics	G. Chap. 5.4.3 Download 27
Apr. 27	Magentic dipoles
Apr. 30	Intro to magnetic materials: Paramagentism, diamagnetism, ferromagnetism	G. Chap. 6.1-6.2 Download 28
May 2	Magneto-statics in matter	G. Chap. 6.2-6.3 Download 29
May 4	Review

Problem Sets

Links

Gallery of Electromagnetic Personalities (A Vignette History of Electromagnetics)

Hyperphysics E&M