Electrodynamics Lectures
Winter, 2012
Detailed Lecture Outline
- Wednesday, January 4, Maxwell's Equations, Green's Theorem, Jackson, Chapter 1.
- Hand-out: Syllabus
- Hand-out: Mathematica workshop notes. Handout contains:
- Friday, January 6, Mathematica Tutorial - Room 300 Geology/Physics. Patrick Malsom, guest lecturer.
- Monday, January 9, Mathematica Tutorial (continued)
- Workshop Exercise Set 1 Due
- Wednesday, January 11, Mathematica Tutorial (continued)
- Workshop Exercise Set 2 Due
- Friday, January 13, Mathematica Tutorial (continued)
- Workshop Exercise Set 3 Due
- Monday, January 16 - Martin Luther King Day - No Class.
- Tuesday, January 17, Image Charges (Jackson: 2.1-2.7)
- Prework: Due in class. Find the electrostatic potential everywhere is a charge Q is placed a distance d away from a grounded, conducting sheet of metal.
- Mathematica Examples
- Hand-out: Problem Set 1 - Due: January 19, 2012
- Wednesday, January 18, No Class, Professor at Fermilab.
- Friday, January 20, Two Dimensional Solution - Complex Analysis
- Prework:
- From Riemann's conditions for a holomorphic function, show that both the real and imaginary parts of that function must statisfy Laplace's equation.
- Conformal Mapping: If f(z) and g(z) are both holomorphic, then f(g(z)) is also holomorphic.
- Problem Set 1 Due
- Handout: Problem Set 2 - Due: January 24.
- Monday, January 23, Conformal Mappings (cont.)
- Tuesday, January 24, Two Dimensional Solutions - Orthogonal Polynomials (Jackson: 2.8-2.11) Cartesian Coordinates
- Problem Set 2 Due
- Handout: Problem Set 3: Due January 30.
- Mathematica Examples
- Wednesday, January 25, No Class, Professor on DOE Panel.
- Friday, January 27, Orthogonal Polynomials (continued) Polar Coordinates
- Monday,January 30, Finite Element Analysis (Jackson 1.12-1.13 and 2.12)
- Prework: Jackson 1.23.
- Problem Set 3 Due
- Handout - Problem Set 4: Due February 3.
- Tuesday, January 31, Finite Element Analysis (continued).
- Wednesday, February 1, Finite Element Analysis (continued)
- Friday, February 3, Chapter 2, 3D Separation of Variables - Cartesian Coordinates and Green's function.
- Mathematica Examples
- Problem Set 4
- Monday, February 6, Mid Term - in class.
- Tuesday, February 7, Chapter 3, Theory: L2 Spaces and Separation of Variables.
- Due: February 15
- Wednesday, February 8, Chapter 3, Separation of Variables - Spherical Coordinates.
- Friday, February 10, Spherical Coordinates (continued)
- Monday, February 13, Chapter 3, Separation of Variables - Spherical Coordinates (continued)
- Tuesday, February 14, Separation of Variables - Spherical Coordinates (continued)
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY
- Wednesday, February 15, Chapter 4 - Multipole Expansion
- Problem Set 5 Due.
- Handout: Problem Set 6 - Due: February 21.
- Friday, February 17, Chapter 3 Separation of Variables - Cylindrical Coordinates
- Monday, February 20, Chapter 3 Cylindrical Coordinates (continued)
- Tuesday, February 21, Chapter 4 - Dielectric Materials
- Problem Set 6 Due
- Hand-out: Problem Set 7 - Due: February 28
- Wednesday, February 22, Chapter 4 - Dielectric Materials (continued)
- Friday, February 24, Chapter 4 - Dielectric Materials (continued)
- Monday, February 27, Chapter 4 - Dielectric Materials (continued)
- Tuesday February 28, Chapter 5 - Magnetostatics - Magnetic Induction
- Problem Set 7 Due
- Hand-out: Problem Set 8 - Due: March 14 at Final.
- Wednesday, February 29, No Class. Professor at FNAL for DOE review.
- Friday, March 2, Chapter 5 - Vector Potential
- Monday, March 5, Chapter 5 Magnetic Materials
- Problem Set 8 Due
- Mathematica Examples
- Tuesday, March 6, Chapter 5 - Magnetic Materials (continued)
- Wednesday, March 8, Chapter 5 - Magnetic Materials (continued)
- Friday, March 10, Chapter 5 - Magnetic Materials (continued)
- Wednesday, March 14, 8:00 - 10:00 AM -- Final Exam
Randy Johnson