29:129 Electricity and Magnetism -- Reno

Fall Semester, 1999

WeekMondayWednesdayFriday
1
Aug. 23
Introduction, Vector Notation
Aug. 25
Div, Grad, Curl
Aug. 27
Integrals, Fundamental Theorems
2
Aug. 30
Coordinates, Delta Fcns
Sept. 1
Electric Fields
Sept. 3
Gauss's Law
3
Sept. 6
Labor Day
Sept. 8
Gauss's Law Examples
Sept. 10
Potentials
4
Sept. 13
Boundary Conditions, Work and Energy
Sept. 15
Work and Energy Examples
Sept. 17
Conductors
5
Sept. 20
Capacitors
Sept. 22
Review
Sept. 24
Introduction to Laplace's Equation
6
Sept. 27
Exam 1: on Chapters 1 and 2
Sept. 29
Discuss Exam, Method of Images
Oct. 1
Method of Images
7
Oct. 4
Separation of Variables, Cartesian
Oct. 6
Separation of Variables, Polar
Oct. 8
Separation continued
8
Oct. 11
Multipole Expansion
Oct. 13
Multipole Expansion Continued
Oct. 15
Polarization
9
Oct. 18
Field of Polarized Object
Oct. 20
Electric Displacement
Oct. 22
Electric Displacement
10
Oct. 25
Linear Dielectrics
Oct. 27
Linear Dielectrics
Oct. 29
Review
11
Nov. 1
Exam 2
Nov. 3
Intro Magnetostatic
Nov. 5
Lorentz force law, Biot-Savart law
12
Nov. 8
Div and Curl, Ampere's law
Nov. 10
Ampere's law
Nov. 12
Vector potential
13
Nov. 15
Multipole expansion
Nov. 17
Examples
Nov. 19
Magnetization
14
Nov. 22
Fields of Magnetized Objects
Nov. 24
Thanksgiving Break
Nov. 26
Thanksgiving Break
15
Nov. 29
Auxillary Fields
Dec. 1
Boundard Conditions
Dec. 3
Linear and Non-linear Media
16
Dec. 6
Dec. 8
Dec. 10
Review
17
December 15
Final Exam 12:00 Noon