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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
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
 
 
 
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

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