Classical Fields: Electrodynamics

Schedule


8 January - 12 January Wednesday 10 12:00 (noon) -- First day of our class @SC 006	[1.0] Electricity + Magnetism + Optics = 303 Vector algebra [1.1]
15 January - 19 January Monday 15 Martin Luther King study day - no daytime classes (evening classes meet) Tuesday 16 Drop-Add period ends 5:00 pm	Differential calculus [1.2] as plumbing Integral vector calculus [1.3] Diversity and field theory
22 January - 26 January	Curvilinear coordinates [1.4, Appendix A] The strange function 1/r^2 [1.5] Electric field[2.1]
29 January - 2 February Saturday 3 Science Olympiad	Drawing field lines Divergence of the electric field [2.2] Using Gauss' law [2.2]
5 February - 9 February	Potential theory [1.6, B] Curl of the electric field [2.2] Electric potential [2.3] Boundary conditions on E and V [2.3] Electrostatic work and energy [2.4]
12 February - 16 February	Conductors [2.5] Capacitors [2.5] Laplace - numerical solutions [3.1] Laplace's equation - Uniqueness and Images [3.2]
19 February - 23 February	Laplace - Separation of variables [3.3] Midterm exam - About
26 February - 1 March Monday 26 Midterm break (all week)
4 March - 8 March Friday 8 Goshen Conference on Religion & Science through March 10.	Monopoles, Dipoles...Multipole expansion [3.4]
11 March - 15 March Thursday 14 Academic advising begins Friday 15 Last day to "W"ithdraw	Insulators and Induced dipoles [4.1] Polarization per unit volume [4.2] Electric displacement [4.3]
18 March - 22 March	Linear dielectrics [4.4] Magnetic fields [5.1] & current Current Magnetic field sources [5.2]
25 March - 29 March Friday 29 Good Friday (no class)	Divergence and Curl of B, and Amperes Law [5.3]
1 April - 5 April Sunday 31 Easter	Magnetic vector potential and dipoles [5.4] Magnetic field: boundary conditions [5.4b] Magnetism [6.1]
8 April - 12 April Monday 8 Eclipse! almost total in Goshen -No class- Wednesday 10 Academic Symposium - no daytime classes	Magnetization [6.2] Relativity [r.1] Lorentz transformations [r.2] [*]E-field + relativity = B-field
15 April - 19 April Friday 19 Last day of classes Please fill out a GC Course Evaluation.	Lucite problem
22 April - 26 April Monday 22 Reading day Tuesday 23 Exam week starts Thursday 25 3:30 PM - Final exam