Calendar

Week 15 Special Relativity and E&M

Reading

• Read my notes
• Read Griffith’s Ch 12.2.3 through 12.3.5

Notes and Homework

• Relativistic E&M
• Homework 13 (Due Fri. Apr. 27)

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Week 14 Mathematical Foundations of Special Relativity

Reading

• Read my notes
• Read Griffith’s Ch 12.1.3 through 12.2.2

Notes and Homework

• Four vectors
• Minkowski Diagrams
• Relativistic Energy and Momentum
• Homework 12 (Due Fri. Apr. 20)

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Week 13 Introduction to Special Relativity

Reading

• Read my notes
• Read Griffith’s Ch 12.1.1 through 12.1.2

Notes and Homework

• Introduction to Special Relativity
• Particle Decay
• Lorentz Transformation
• Homework 11 (Due Fri. Apr. 13)

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Week 12 Electromagnetic Waves in Conductors

Reading

• Read my notes
• Read Griffith’s Chapter 9.4.1 through 9.4.3

Notes and Homework

• Electromagnetic Waves in Conductors
• Dispersion
• Homework 10 (Due Fri. Apr. 6)

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Week 11 Reflection and Transmission

Pre-class Videos

• EM Waves in Matter
• Reflection and Transmission at Material Boundaries

Reading

• Read my notes
• Read Griffith’s Chapter 9.3.1 through 9.3.3

In-Class Activities

• Normal Incidence
• Oblique Incidence

Notes and Homework

• Electromagnetic Waves in Matter
• Reflection and Transmission
• Homework 9 (Due Fri. Mar. 30)

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Week 10 Introduction to EM Waves

Reading

• Read my notes
• Read Griffith’s Chapter 9.1.3 through 9.2.2

In-Class Activities

• Vector waves
• Maxwell’s Equations and Waves

Notes and Homework

• Electromagnetic Waves
• Homework 8 (Due Fri. Mar. 23)

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Week 9 Introduction to Waves

Pre-class Videos

• Introduction to Waves
• Sinusoidal Traveling Waves
• Three-dimensional Waves

Reading

• Read my notes
• Read Griffith’s Chapter 9.1.1 and 9.1.2

In-Class Activities

• Checking solutions to the wave equation
• Tied Strings

Notes and Homework

• Introduction to Waves
• Homework 7 (Due Fri. Mar. 16)

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Week 8 Conservation of Charge and Energy

Pre-class Videos

• Charge Conservation
• Local Energy Conservation
• Global Energy Conseravtion
• Poynting Vector Example

Reading

• Read Ch 8.1.1-8.2.2 for this week
• Read this paper on the Poynting vector
• Read this paper on Energy transfer in circuits
• Read Ch 8.2.3-8.3 for next week

In-Class Activities

• Energy Conservation in EM Systems
• Energy Delivery

Notes and Homework

• Energy Conservation
• Poynting Vector
• Project 1 (Due Fri. Mar 2 - before spring break)
• Homework 7 (Due Fri. Mar. 16 - after spring break)

Week 7 - Maxwell’s Correction to Ampere’s Law

Pre-class Videos

• Are Maxwell’s Equations Complete?
• Fixing Ampere’s Law
• The Displacement Current

Reading

• Read Ch 7.3.1-7.3.3 for this week
• Read this paper on the leaky capacitor
• Read Ch 8.1.1-8.2.2 for next week

In-Class Activities

• Magnetic field due to a charging capacitor
• Terminated line current

Notes and Homework

• Maxwell’s Equations
• Displacement Current
• Homework 6 (Due Fri. Feb. 23)

Week 6 - RLC Circuits, Phasors, Leading and Lagging

The readings and notes here are the same as last week

Pre-class Videos

• Reminders about Complex Numbers
• Phasors and Impedance
• Leading and Lagging

Reading

• Read my notes on RLC circuits for this week
• Read this paper on phasors
• Read Ch 7.3.1-7.3.3 for next week

In-Class Activities

• Designing an RL Circuit II
• Filtering Signals

Notes and Homework

• Inductance
• Introduction to RLC Circuits
• RL Circuit Example
• RLC Circuits
• Homework 5 (Due Fri. Feb. 16)

Week 5 - Inductance and RLC Circuits

We are likely to continue RLC Circuits next week, so don’t worry about taking your time with readings.

Pre-class Videos

• Mutual Inductance
• Self Inductance
• Reminders about Circuits
• An RL Circuit Example

Reading

• Read my notes on RLC circuits for this week
• Read this paper on phasors
• Read Ch 7.3.1-7.3.3 for next week

In-Class Activities

• Mutual Inductance
• Designing an RL Circuit

Notes and Homework

• Inductance
• Introduction to RLC Circuits
• RL Circuit Example
• RLC Circuits
• Homework 4 (Due Fri. Feb. 9)

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Week 4 - Faraday’s Law

Pre-class Videos

• Introduction to Faraday’s Law
• Deriving Faraday’s Law
• Faraday’s Law Example

Reading

• Read this paper on quantitative experiments on Faraday’s Law
• Read Ch 7.2.3 for this week

In-Class Activities

• Magnetic Rotation Demo
• Charging a toothbrush

Notes and Homework

• Introduction to Faraday’s Law - Handwritten
• Faraday’s Law with Examples - Handwritten
• Homework 3 (Due Fri. Feb. 2)

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Week 3 - Electromotive Force and Induction

Pre-class Videos

• What is the Electromotive Force?
• Calculating EMF: Simple Circuit
• Motional EMF
• Motional EMF and Magnetic Flux

Reading

• Read Ch 7.2.1. and 7.2.2 for this week
• Read this paper on magnetic fields and work
• Read Ch 7.2.3 for next week

In-Class Activities

• Magnetic braking
• Motional EMF and energy conservation

Notes and Homework

• Electromotive Force - Handwritten
• Motional EMF - Handwritten
• Homework 2 (Due Fri. Jan. 26)

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Week 2 - Ohm’s Law

Pre-class Videos

• Ohm’s Law
• Comments on Ohm’s Law
• Example: Resistance

Reading

• Read Ch 7.1.1 and 7.1.2 for this week
• Read this paper on limitations of Ohm’s Law
• Read Ch 7.2.1 and 7.2.2 for next week

In-Class Activities

• What is steady state?
• Do we really understand steady state?

Notes and Homework

• Current and Ohm’s Law - Handwritten

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Week 1 - Review of Electrostatics and Magnetostatics

Pre-class Videos

Videos for this week are just reminders of big ideas from 481

• Coulomb’s Law
• Gauss’ Law
• Laplace’s Equation
• Biot-Savart’s Law
• Ampere’s Law

Reading

• Review Chapters 1-6 in Griffith’s
• Read Ch 7.1.1 and 7.1.2 for next week

In-Class Activities

• Lightning Strike at SLAC
• Building a Magnetic Trap

Notes and Homework

• Introduction Notes
• Week 1 Conceptual Questions
• Homework 1 (Due Fri. Jan. 19)