Class Meetings: ARC building (205), Tuesday & Friday, 12:00-1:20pm
Instructor: Kristjan Haule
E-mail: haule@physics.rutgers.edu
Office: Serin E267
Office hours: Friday 4pm
Text: Modern Electrodynamics, by Andrew Zangwill (chapters 1-15). Note: Zangwill's known typos
Alternative (more condesed classical) text: Classical Electrodynamics, by John David Jackson, John Wiley & Sons, (chapters 1 - 7)
Homework: There will normally be a homework assignment each week. Late homeworks will not be accepted without special permission, generally requested in advance. Homeworks will be graded and will be a significant contribution to your final grade (40%).
Exams: There will be one midterm exam (30%) and a final exam (30%). They will be in-class closed-book exams. You will be permitted to use your notes, and use of a calculator during exams.
Gradebook: access gradebook
Syllabus:
Date Topic Homework assigned Due date
09/03/19 The Maxwell Eq.
09/06/19 Electrostatics Zangwill 2.2, 2.10, 2.14 9/13
09/10/19 Electrostatics
09/13/19 Electrostatics Zangwill 3.5, 3.6, 3.8, 3.9, 3.11 9/24
09/17/19 Multipoles Zangwill 3.12, 3.13, 3.15 9/27
09/20/19 No class
09/24/19 Multipoles
09/27/19 Multipoles Zangwill 3.18, 3.24, 4.1, 4.3, 4.5 10/4
10/01/19 Conducting matter
10/04/19 Conducting matter Zangwill 4.8,4.10,4.14,4.20,4.23 10/15
10/08/19 Conducting matter
10/11/19 Conducting matter Zangwill 5.2,5.3,5.4,5.5,5.6 10/25
10/15/19 Dielectric matter
10/18/19 Dielectric matter
10/22/19 Dielectric matter
10/25/19 Dielectric matter
10/29/19 Midterm exam Midterm solution histogram
11/01/19 Dielectric matter Zangwill 6.3,6.11,6.15,6.17,6.23 11/08
11/05/19 Laplaces's Eq.
11/08/19 Laplace's Eq. Zangwill 7.4,7.6,7.8,7.9, 7.10 11/15
11/12/19 Laplace's Eq.
11/15/19 Laplace's Eq.
11/19/19 Poisson Eq. Zangwill 7.14,7.16,7.21,7.22 11/27
11/22/19 Poisson Eq.
11/26/19 No class (Thursday classes)
11/27/19 (Friday) Poisson Eq. Zangwill 8.2,8.5,8.9,8.15,8.21 12/06
12/03/19 Magnetostatics Survey starts , QR code
12/06/19 Magnetostatics
12/10/19 Magnetostatics
12/17/19 Final exam ARC 205 at noon. Solution Histogram
Some versions of the book have the problems order in a slightly different way. This lead to the confusion in the homework assigned.
In my version of the book, the problems and their title are:
3.18="Ionization energy of a Model Hydrogen Atom"
3.24="The energy outside a Charged Volume"
4.1="Dipole moment practice"
4.3="The Charge density of a point electric dipole"
4.5="Point charge motion in an electric dipole field".
4.8="Two coplanar dipoles"
4.10="A spherical double layer"
4.14="Practice with cartesian multipole moments"
4.20="Practice with spherical multipoles"
4.23="Exterior multipoles for specified potential on a sphere"