Calendar

LEC # Topics Problem Sets
1 Calculus, Mechanics and Systems of Units 1
2 Coulomb's Law, Superposition, Electric Fields
3 Field Lines, Electric Flux, Gauss' Law 2
4 Work, Energy of Fields, Potential
5 Div, Curl, Laplace's Eqn, Poisson's Eqn 3
6 Conductors
7 Capacitance 4
Quiz #1: Purcell Chapters 1-3
8 Current, Resistance, Ohm's Law 5
9 EMF, Circuits, Kirchhoff's Rules, RC Circuits
10 Spacetime in Special Relativity 6
11 Forces, Momenta, Fields, Energies in Special Relativity 7
12 Lorentz force, Magnetic Field, Biot-Savart
13 Ampere's Law, Vector Potential 8
14 Faraday's Law of Induction
15 Mutual and Self Inductance 9
16 RL Circuits, Energy in the Magnetic Field
17 Driven and Undriven RLC Circuits, Impedance, Resonance 10
18 Phasor Representation for RLC Circuits, Energy and Power Dissipation
Quiz #2: Purcell Chapters 4-8
19 Displacement Current, Complete Maxwell's Equations, Electromagnetic (E/M) Waves 11
20 Waves (continued), Polarization
21 Energy, Power, Momentum in E/M Waves 12
22 Magnetic Properties of Matter
Quiz #3: Purcell Chapters 8-9, handouts
23 Coaxial Transmission Lines