Calendar

Week 15

• Quiz 7 (Due April 20th)
  • Topic: Reflect on your greatest accomplishments this academic year.
  • What are you proud of having done? None of them have to be physics related.
  • Full credit for any reflection.

Week 14/15 Special Relativity and E&M

Reading

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

Notes and Homework

• Relativistic Energy and Momentum
• Relativistic E&M
• Homework 13 (Due Mon. Apr. 20)

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Week 13 Mathematical Foundations of Special Relativity

Quiz 6 (Due Apr. 6)

• Topic: Special Relativity
  • Use special relativity to investigate the effects of particle detection, or
  • Compare two events observed from different frames

Reading

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

Notes and Homework

• Four vectors
• Minkowski Diagrams
• Homework 12 (Due Mon. Apr. 6)

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Week 12 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. Mar. 27)

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Week 11 Electromagnetic Waves in Conductors

Quiz (Due Mar. 20)

• Topic: Electromagnetic Waves in Matter; Transmission and Reflection
• Quiz Rubric

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. Mar. 20)

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Week 10 Waves in Matter

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

Notes and Homework

• Electromagnetic Waves in Matter
• Reflection and Transmission
• Homework 9 (Due Fri. Mar. 13)

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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

Notes and Homework

• Introduction to Waves
• Electromagnetic Waves
• Homework 8 (Due Fri. Feb. 28)

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Week 8 - Conservation Laws

Pre-class Videos

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

Reading

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

Notes and Homework

• Conservation Laws
• Homework 7 (Due Fri. Feb. 21)
  • Note there’s no project problem this week. You have two weeks to complete your paper. You can send me a draft for feedback.

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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 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

• Maxwell’s Equations
• Homework 6 (Due Fri. Feb. 14)

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Week 5 - Inductance and RLC Circuits

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

Notes and Homework

• Inductance
• RLC Circuits
• Homework 5 (Due Fri. Feb. 6)

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Week 4 - Faraday’s Law and Inductance

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

Notes and Homework

• Faraday’s Law - Handwritten
• Inductance
• Homework 4 (Due Fri. Jan. 31)

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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

Notes and Homework

• Electromotive Force - Handwritten
• Motional EMF - Handwritten
• Homework 3 (Due Fri. Jan. 24)

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Week 2 - Ohm’s Law

Pre-class Videos (for you if you want)

• 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

Notes and Homework

• Current and Ohm’s Law - Handwritten
• Homework 2 (Due Fri. Jan. 17)

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Week 1 - Review of Electrostatics and Magnetostatics

Pre-class Videos (for you if you want)

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

Notes and Homework

• Lecture 1 (January 6th): Introduction to PHY 482 and Review
• Homework 1 (Due Fri. Jan. 10)