Classical Fields schedule

Schedule for Classical Fields


8 January - 12 January Wednesday 10 12:00 (noon) -- First day of our class @SC 006	Electricity + Magnetism + Optics = 303 Vector algebra [1.1] Differential calculus [1.2] as plumbing
15 January - 19 January Monday 15 Martin Luther King study day - no daytime classes, but evening classes meet Wednesday 17 Drop-Add period ends 5:00 pm	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	Drawing field lines Divergence of the electric field [2.2] Using Gauss' law [2.2]
5 February - 9 February Saturday 10 Science Olympiad regional tournament @GC	Potential theory [1.6, B] Curl of the electric field [2.2] Electric potential [2.3] Electrostatic work and energy [2.4]
12 February - 16 February	Conductors [2.5]
19 February - 23 February Friday 23 Midterm exam	Capacitors [2.5] Laplace - numerical solutions [3.1] Midterm exam - About
26 February - 2 March Monday 26 Midterm break (all week)
5 March - 9 March	Laplace's equation - Uniqueness and Images [3.2] Laplace - Separation of variables [3.3]
12 March - 16 March Thursday 15 Spring academic advising - to April 2	Monopoles, Dipoles...Multipole expansion [3.4] Insulators and Induced dipoles [4.1]
19 March - 23 March	Polarization per unit volume [4.1] Electric displacement [4.3] Linear dielectrics [4.4]
26 March - 30 March Friday 30 Good Friday (no class)	Magnetic fields [5.1] & current Current Magnetic field sources [5.2]
2 April - 6 April	Relativity [r.1] Lorentz transformations [r.2] E-field + relativity = B-field
9 April - 13 April	Divergence and Curl of B, and Amperes Law [5.3] Magnetic vector potential and dipoles [5.4]
16 April - 20 April Friday 20 Last day of classes Fill out a GC course evaluation.	Magnetism [6.1] Electromotive force [7.2] Displacement current Maxwell's equations in matter [9.2, 9.3] Final exam - About
23 April - 27 April Thursday 26 3:30 PM - Final exam