Description
Electrostatics in a vacuum, electrostatics in dielectric media, boundary value methods in electrostatics, electric currents, conducting media, magnetostatics in a vacuum, macroscopic and microscopic magnetism, Faraday’s law of electromagnetic induction.
Prerequisites
Physics 107 and Physics 117
References
Griffiths
Schedule
R201, WFR (WF 8:30AM-10:00AM)
Announcements
Week 2: 26-28 August
Reference: GR 1
☐ Provide geometrical interpretations or physical examples for the gradient, divergence, and curl. Make a sketch or add a plot that you have made to illustrate these (point) derivatives.
☐ Provide geometrical interpretations or physical examples for the fundamental theorem for gradients, divergences, and curls.
☐ Write down Laplacian for an orthogonal coordinate system in terms of its scale factors. Verify this formula for cylindrical and spherical coordinates.
☐ Prove that the divergence of a radial inverse-square power vector field is consistent with a Dirac-delta point source or sink.
Reference: GR 1
☐ Provide geometrical interpretations or physical examples for the gradient, divergence, and curl. Make a sketch or add a plot that you have made to illustrate these (point) derivatives.
☐ Provide geometrical interpretations or physical examples for the fundamental theorem for gradients, divergences, and curls.
☐ Write down Laplacian for an orthogonal coordinate system in terms of its scale factors. Verify this formula for cylindrical and spherical coordinates.
☐ Prove that the divergence of a radial inverse-square power vector field is consistent with a Dirac-delta point source or sink.
Faculty
- Francis Paraan