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Static Vector Fields
 
Fall 2009

First Day Handout

Daily Notices

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Day Topic:
  Subtopic
Reading   (Bridge Book)
  (Main, Alternate,  Deep)
Due Dates
1
Mon
11/9
Flux
  Visualizing Flux
Flux
GEM 1.3.1, 2.2.1
  
2
Tue
11/10
Gauss's Law and Symmetry
  Applications
GEM 2.2.3
Gauss
Cube (Challenge: find the key typo!)
   
3
Wed
11/11
Gauss-symm
HW 1
4
Thu
11/12
Divergence
  Definition
  Visualizing Divergence
Maxwell's Eqn 1
  Divergence Theorem
Laplacian
Div
GEM 1.2.4
GEM 1.5
GEM 1.3.4
GEM 2.2.2
Maxwell
Coulomb
E-field Lines
GEM 2.3.3
Laplacian
HW1 soln
       
5
Fri
11/13
Currents
Vector Potentials
  Spinning Ring
GEM 5.1.3, 5.2.1
Current
GEM 5.4.1
Vector Potential
Ring of current
HW2
    
6
Mon
11/16
Circulation
Curl
  Definition of Curl
Theta and delta function
 
GEM 1.2.5, RHB 10.7.3
Schey p. 75-91
GEM 1.4, RHB 10.9
Curl
step-function
delta-function
 HW2 soln
Josh' animation for q2
  
7
Tue
11/17
More Curl
  Visualizing Curl
B Fields
  From A
Biot-Savart
  Derivation
 
Biot-Savart
 
   
8
Wed
11/18
B Fields
  From Biot-Savart
  AB compare
GEM 5.2.2
field of wire
HW3
 
9
Thu
11/19
  Stokes' Theorem
GEM 1.3.5
Stokes
HW3 solns
 
10
Fri
11/20
Ampère's Law
Ampere
Maxwell's
GEM 2.2.4, 5.3 (all!)
HW4
HW4 solns
 
11
Mon
11/23
Ampère's Law and Symmetry
  Applications
Maxwell's Eqns 2, 3, 4
GEM 5.3 (all!)
B for sheet
  
12
Tue
11/24
Boundary Conditions for E
  Calculating at Boundaries
Boundary Conditions for B
  Calculating at Boundaries
Second Derivatives
GEM 2.3.5
GEM 5.4.2
Boundaries (E)
Boundaries (B)
GEM 1.2.7
     
13
Wed
11/25
(Review)
GEM p 87 and 5.4.2
 
HW5
Solutions
14
Thu
11/26
Mon: Conservative fields
Potentials
  Murder Mystery Method
Product Rules
Integration by Parts
Energy (continuous)
GEM 1.2.6
finding potentials
derivatives of products
integration by parts
Energy of distributions
GEM 2.4
      
15
Fri
11/27
Conductors
Griffiths Triangle
Griffiths Triangle
GEM 2.5
GEM p 87
GEM 5.4.2
   
16
Mon
11/30
Review
 
 
 
HW 6
Solutions
Prob 1 solution

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