Class Notes & Slides
Handwritten Notes
- 01 Mathematical Review
- 02 Numerical Integration
- 03 Electrostatics and Superposition
- 04 Gauss’s Law
- 05 Electric Potential
- 06 Boundary Conditions
- 07 Energy
- 08 Conductors
- 09 Laplace’s Equation
- 10 Method of Relaxation (1D)
- 11 Separation of Variables (Cartesian)
- 12 Method of Relaxation (2D)
- 13 Separation of Variables (Spherical)
- 14 Multipole Expansion
- 15 Polarization
- 16 The D Field
- 17 Boundary Conditions Electric Field
- 18 Lorentz Force
- 19 Current
- 20 Magnetostatics
- 21 Ampere’s Law
- 22 Vector Potential
- 23 Magnetic Dipoles
- 24 Magnetization
- 25 Bound Currents
- 26 The H Field
- Thanksgiving Lecture - The Harmonic Oscillator Gets a Bad Rap
Slides
- Aug 29 Welcome to PHY 481: [HTML] [PDF]
- Aug 31 Reminder of Vectors and Vector Operations: [HTML] [PDF]
- Sept 5 Reminder of Vector Calculus: [HTML] [PDF]
- Sept 7 One-Dimensional Numerical Integrals: [HTML]: [PDF]
- Sept 10 Introduction to Electrostatics: [HTML] [PDF]
- Sept 12 Coulomb’s Law and Taylor Series: [HTML] [PDF]
- Sept 14 Gauss’s Law: [HTML] [PDF]
- Sept 17 Dirac Delta Functions: [HTML] [PDF]
- Sept 19 Gauss’s Law 2: [HTML] [PDF]
- Sept 21 Gauss’s Law 3 and Curl of $\mathbf{E}$: [HTML] [PDF]
- Sept 24 Introduction to Electric Potential: [HTML] [PDF]
- Sept 26 Electric Potential: [HTML] [PDF]
- Sept 28 Electric Potential Energy: [HTML] [PDF]
- Oct 1 Conductors: [HTML] [PDF]
- Oct 3 Conductors II: Electric Boogaloo: [HTML] [PDF]
- Oct 5 Introduction to Laplace’s Equation: [HTML] [PDF]
- Oct 8 Laplace’s Equation and the Method of Relaxation: [HTML] [PDF]
- Oct 10 Separation of Variables (Cartesian): [HTML] [PDF]
- Oct 12 Separation of Variables II (Cartesian): [HTML] [PDF]
- Oct 15 Method of Relaxation (2D) and Intro to Separation of Variables (Spherical): [HTML] [PDF]
- Oct 17 Separation of Variables II (Spherical): [HTML] [PDF]
- Oct 19 Separation of Variables III (Spherical): [HTML] [PDF]
- Oct 22 Dipoles and Introduction to the Multipole Expansion: [HTML] [PDF]
- Oct 24 Multipole Expansion: [HTML] [PDF]
- Oct 26 Multipole Expansion II: [HTML] [PDF]
- Oct 29 Polarization: [HTML] [PDF]
- Oct 31 Polarization II: [HTML] [PDF]
- Nov 2 The D-field: [HTML] [PDF]
- Nov 5 Using Boundary Conditions: [HTML] [PDF]
- Nov 7 Boundary Conditions Example and Intro to Magnetism: [HTML] [PDF]
- Nov 9 Magnetism and Velocity Selection: [HTML] [PDF]
- Nov 12 Current: [HTML] [PDF]
- Nov 14 Finding $\mathbf{B}$ using the Biot-Savart Law: [HTML] [PDF]
- Nov 16 Finding $\mathbf{B}$ using Ampere’s Law: [HTML] [PDF]
- Nov 19 Ampere’s Law Examples: [HTML] [PDF]
- Nov 21 The Harmonic Oscillator Gets a Bad Rap: [HTML] [PDF]
- Nov 26 The Vector Potential [HTML] [PDF]
- Nov 28 Examples of the Vector Potential [HTML] [PDF]
- Nov 30 Magnetic Dipoles [HTML] [PDF]
- Dec 3 Magnetization and Bound Currents [HTML] [PDF]
- Dec 5 The H-Field [HTML] [PDF]
- Dec 7 Wrap-up [HTML] [PDF]