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Main themes covered in lectures |
problems due noon Friday |
| Aug 19 |
1 |
Intro, Coulomb's Law, Electric field, Stored Energy |
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point charge & assemblies of charge |
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Aug 24
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Electric flux, Gauss's Law |
see gradescope.com |
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Electric potential |
| Aug 31 |
2 |
grad, div, curl & all that |
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Laplace's eq'n, Stokes's th'm |
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| Sept 7 |
3 |
Electric field & conducting material |
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Capacitors |
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| Sept 14 |
4 |
Electric current EMF, batteries |
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RC circuit currents |
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| Sept 21 |
5 |
Fields from moving charges, Lorentz force |
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E in different frames |
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| Sept 23 |
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Exam on Chapters 1-4 |
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| Sept 28 |
6 |
Magnetic Field from current, Magnetic vector potential
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Loops, solenoids, Hall effect |
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| Oct 5 |
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E-M Induction, Farady's Law |
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motors, generators |
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| Oct 12 |
7 |
mutual inductance, self-inductance | |
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magnetic stored energy |
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| Oct 19 |
8 |
AC circuits, impedance, admittance
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NO CLASS THURSDAY |
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AC power |
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| Oct 26 |
9 |
Maxwell eq'ns, E-M waves |
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| Nov 2 |
10 |
E-M waves in materials |
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energy flow, different frames |
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induced & permanent dipoles |
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| Nov 9 |
10 |
polarized materials, E-M wave in dielectrics |
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Dielectrics in capacitors |
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| Nov 11 |
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Exam on Chapters 5 - 8 |
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| Nov 16 |
11 |
Magnetic fields in materials, permeability |
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Ferromagnetism, electron spin |
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| Nov 23 |
11 |
Thanksgiving holiday |
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| Nov 30 |
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review |
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| Dec 10 |
1 - 11 |
Final Exam, 4pm |
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