| TENTATIVE SCHEDULE FOR PHYSICS 411, SPRING 2003, Prof. Anlage | |||
| Date | Mtg.# | Griffiths | Spring 2003 Topics |
| Week 1 | |||
| 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 |
| Week 2 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 10-Feb | 6 | ||
| 11-Feb | 7 | 2.2 | Electric Potential + Poisson + Laplace |
| 13-Feb | 8 | 2.4, 2.5, 3.1 | Work and Energy |
| Week 4 | |||
| 17-Feb | 9 | ||
| 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 | |||
| 24-Feb | 12 | ||
| 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 | |||
| 3-Mar | 15 | ||
| 4-Mar | 16 | 3.4, 4.1 | Multipole expansions (short) + Electric Dipole |
| 6-Mar | 17 | EXAM 1, Chapters 1 - 3 | |
| Week 7 | |||
| 10-Mar | 18 | ||
| 11-Mar | 19 | 4.1 | Polarization |
| 13-Mar | 20 | 4.2 | Field of a polarized object |
| Week 8 | |||
| 17-Mar | 21 | ||
| 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 | |||
| Week 9 | |||
| 31-Mar | 24 | ||
| 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 | |||
| 7-Apr | 27 | ||
| 8-Apr | 28 | 5.4 | Mangetic vector potential |
| 10-Apr | 29 | 5.4 | Aharonov-Bohm Effect |
| Week 11 | |||
| 14-Apr | 30 | ||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 28-Apr | 36 | Review | |
| 29-Apr | 37 | EXAM 2, Chapters 4 - 6 | |
| 1-May | 38 | 7.3 | energy in magnetic fields, Maxwell's Eqs. |
| Week 14 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 12-May | 42 | 9.3 | Harmonic EM waves, Poynting's Theorem |
| 12-May | 43 | EM waves in conductors, Review | |
| 17-May | 44 | FINAL EXAM | 8:00 - 10:00 AM Covering ALL Material |