29:130 Electricity and Magnetism Syllabus

Spring Semester 2000

Prof. Mary Hall (Hallsie) Reno

• Office:515 VAN
• Phone:335-1920
• Email: mary-hall-reno@uiowa.edu

Course Policy

• Class Times: Lectures will be given on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9:30-10:20 in 301 VAN. Lecture attendance is strongly advised.
• Textbook: The textbook is David Griffiths' Introduction to Electrodynamics, Third Edition. There are a few books on reserve:
  • Feynman and Sands, Feynman Lectures on Physics
  • Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics
  • Lorrain, Corson and Lorrain, Electromagnetic Fields and Waves
  Our textbook is a simplification of Jackson's graduate text (on reserve, listed above).
• Homework Assignments: Problems will be assigned from the textbook and collected each week. Show all work in order to get full credit for the problems. Late homework is highly discouraged. Students are encouraged to work together on the problem sets, but the work submitted should be your own.
• Course Grading Policies: Three exams will be given, two in-class exams and one during the final exam period scheduled Noon Wednesday, May 10. The exams are all closed book, but you may bring a handwritten 4x6 notecard to the exam. The course grade is derived from: exams 20% for each exam, homework 40%. The final exam will not be comprehensive. Plus/minus grading will be used. Makeup exams will be scheduled for students who miss an exam because of illness, mandatory religious obligations, or other unavoidable circumstances or University activities. In the case of illness, the student is advised to contact the professor before the exam is held if at all possible. Only in very exceptional cases will a makeup exam be arranged when prior arrangements have not been made.
• Complaints, Plagiarism and Cheating: "Academic Misconduct" and "Student Complaints Concerning Faculty Actions" procedures are available for your review in the Spring Schedule of Courses, page 43-44. If you have concerns or complaints about the course, you should see me first. You can go to the department associate chair Prof. Tom Boggess (he can be contacted through the Main Office 203 VAN) if your response is not satisfactory. If you still have concerns, you should then go to Dean Lindberg, Associate Dean for Academic Programs. An avenue for feedback is the distribution of ACE forms late in the semester.
• Other: I need to hear from anyone who has a disability which may require some modification of seating, testing or other class requirements so that appropriate arrangements may be made. Please see me after class or during my office hours.

Topics covered

The second semester of the two semester electrodynamics course sequence is devoted mainly to time dependent fields, including Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic waves, radiation from accelerating charges, special relativity, conservation laws and the potential formulation. We will cover Chapters 7-12 in the textbook.