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
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
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. 12)
Week 12 Electromagnetic Waves in Conductors
Reading
- Read my notes
- Read Griffith’s Chapter 9.4.1 through 9.4.3
Notes and Homework
Week 11 Reflection and Transmission; Introduction to Waves in Metals
Reading
- Read my notes
- Read Griffith’s Chapter 9.4.1 through 9.4.3
Notes and Homework
Week 10 Waves in Matter
Pre-class Videos
Reading
- Read my notes
- Read Griffith’s Chapter 9.3.1 through 9.3.3
Notes and Homework
Week 9 Introduction to EM Waves
Reading
- Read my notes
- Read Griffith’s Chapter 9.1.3 through 9.2.2
Notes and Homework
Week 8 - Introduction to Waves
Pre-class Videos
Reading
- Read my notes
- Read Griffith’s Chapter 9.1.1 and 9.1.2
Notes and Homework
Week 7 - Maxwell’s Correction to Ampere’s Law and Conservation Laws
We are likely to continue conservation laws next week.
Pre-class Videos
- Are Maxwell’s Equations Complete?
- Fixing Ampere’s Law
- The Displacement Current
- Charge Conservation
- Local Energy Conservation
- Global Energy Conseravtion
- Poynting Vector Example
Reading
- Read Ch 7.3.1-7.3.3 and Ch 8.1.1-8.2.2 for this week
- Read this paper on the leaky capacitor
- 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
Notes and Homework
Week 6 - RLC Circuits, Phasors, Leading and Lagging
The readings and notes here are the same as last week
Pre-class Videos
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
Notes and Homework
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
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
Notes and Homework
Week 4 - Faraday’s Law
Pre-class Videos
Reading
- Read this paper on quantitative experiments on Faraday’s Law
- Read Ch 7.2.3 for this week
Notes and Homework
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
Notes and Homework
Week 2 - Ohm’s Law
Pre-class Videos
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
Notes and Homework
Week 1 - Review of Electrostatics and Magnetostatics
Pre-class Videos
Videos for this week are just reminders of big ideas from 481
Reading
- Review Chapters 1-6 in Griffith’s
- Read Ch 7.1.1 and 7.1.2 for next week