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TENTATIVE
SCHEDULE FOR PHYSICS 411, SPRING 2003, Prof. Anlage |
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Mtg.# |
Griffiths |
Spring 2003 Topics |
Week 1 |
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28-Jan |
1 |
1.1 - 1.3 |
Review of Mathematics I: Differential calculus |
30-Jan |
2 |
1.4 - 1.6 |
Review of Mathematics II: Integral calculus |
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Week 2 |
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3-Feb |
3 |
2.1 |
Electric Fields and Gauss's Law |
4-Feb |
4 |
2.1, 2.2 |
Coulomb's Law and The Electric Field |
6-Feb |
5 |
2.2 |
Div and Curl of E |
Week 3 |
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10-Feb |
6 |
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11-Feb |
7 |
2.2 |
Electric Potential + Poisson + Laplace |
13-Feb |
8 |
2.4, 2.5, 3.1 |
Work and Energy |
Week 4 |
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17-Feb |
9 |
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18-Feb |
10 |
2.4, 2.5, 3.1 |
Conductors, Thomas-Fermi screening, solutions to Laplace's equaqtions |
20-Feb |
11 |
3.2 |
Method of images |
Week 5 |
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24-Feb |
12 |
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25-Feb |
13 |
3.3 |
Separation of variables in spherical coords I |
27-Feb |
14 |
3.4 |
Separation of variables in spherical coords II + multipole expansion |
Week 6 |
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3-Mar |
15 |
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4-Mar |
16 |
3.4, 4.1 |
Multipole expansions (short) + Electric Dipole |
6-Mar |
17 |
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EXAM 1, Chapters 1 - 3 |
Week 7 |
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10-Mar |
18 |
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11-Mar |
19 |
4.1 |
Polarization |
13-Mar |
20 |
4.2 |
Field of a polarized object |
Week 8 |
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17-Mar |
21 |
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18-Mar |
22 |
5.1 |
Ferroelectrics/Critical behavior + Magnetic fields + Lorentz |
20-Mar |
23 |
5.2, 5.3 |
Force on currents I, K, J, Biot-Savart |
SPRING
BREAK |
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Week 9 |
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31-Mar |
24 |
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1-Apr |
25 |
5.3 |
Biot-Savart, Div, Curl B, Ampere's Law |
3-Apr |
26 |
5.3 |
Ampere's Law in integral form |
Week 10 |
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7-Apr |
27 |
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8-Apr |
28 |
5.4 |
Mangetic vector potential |
10-Apr |
29 |
5.4 |
Aharonov-Bohm Effect |
Week 11 |
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14-Apr |
30 |
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15-Apr |
31 |
6.1, 6.2 |
Multipole Exapnsion for A, Magnetization |
17-Apr |
32 |
6.2, 6.3 |
Bound Currents, H field |
Week 12 |
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21-Apr |
33 |
6.4 |
H, B, M, bound current problem, MEG |
22-Apr |
34 |
7.1 |
EMF, Faraday's Law |
24-Apr |
35 |
7.2 |
EMF, Galilean invariance, Faraday example |
Week 13 |
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28-Apr |
36 |
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Review |
29-Apr |
37 |
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EXAM 2, Chapters 4 - 6 |
1-May |
38 |
7.3 |
energy in magnetic fields, Maxwell's Eqs. |
Week 14 |
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5-May |
39 |
7.3 |
Displacement currents |
6-May |
40 |
7.3 |
constiutive Eqs. + Boundary Conditions |
8-May |
41 |
9.1, 9.2 |
Boundary conditions, EM waves in vacuum |
Week 15 |
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12-May |
42 |
9.3 |
Harmonic EM waves, Poynting's Theorem |
12-May |
43 |
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EM waves in conductors, Review |
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17-May |
44 |
FINAL EXAM |
8:00 - 10:00 AM Covering ALL Material |
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