PHYSICS 4230 - Electricity & Magnetism I
Fall 2008

L. J. Curtis

ljc@physics.utoledo.edu

Textbook: Roald K. Wangsness, Electromagnetic Fields, 2nd Edition, John Wiley Sons, NY

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· Syllabus

Chapter 1: Vectors
Chapter 2: Coulomb's Law
Chapter 3: The Electric Field
Chapter 4: Gauss' Law
Chapter 5: The Scalar Potential
Chapter 6: Conductors in Electrostatic Fields
Chapter 7: Electrostatic Energy
Chapter 8: Electric Multipoles
Chapter 9: Boundary Conditions at a Surface of Discontinuity
Chapter 10: Electrostatics in the Presence of Matter
Chapter 11: Special Methods in Electrostatics
Chapter 12: Electric Currents
Chapter 13: Ampère's Law
Chapter 14: The Magnetic Induction
Chapter 15: The Integral Form of Ampère's Law

TRANSPARENCY FILES

· Virtual Photon Picture

· Multipole Distributions

· Gauss' Law

· Multidimensional Spaces

· Potentials

· Capacitance

· Resistance

· Relativity and Coulomb's Law

· Spin, angular momentum, and magnetic moment

TRANSPARENCY & NOTE FILES

· Chapter 15 - Electrostatics

· Chapter 16 - Energy

· Chapter 17 - Ohm's Law

· Chapter 18 - DC Circuits

· Chapter 26 - Relativity

· Chapter 19 - Magnetism
Midterm #1: Solutions - pdf ; jpg

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· Chapter 20 - Faraday's Law

Dipole-dipole forces

· End-on dipole

· Positive charge

· Negative charge

· Side-on dipole

· General dipole

· Divergence of fields

· Gauss formulation

· 2-D projection of 4-D divergence

Molecules in a room

· Microscopic origin of pressure

· continued

· van der Waals equation

· Multipoles by differentiation

· Dipole-dipole interaction

· Force or energy?

· Exclusion principle

Extending the dimensionality

· Volumes and areas

· 2-dimensions

· 3-dimensions

· 1- and 4-dimensions

· N-D Hyperspheres

· Hypercubes

· Wente torus

Multipoles

· Dipole field

· Better soln to 11-11

· 3-5 dimensions

· Multipoles by differentiation

· Index notation tutorial (pdf)

· Differentiating 1/r

· Summary

Van der waals fluids (See Curtis, Chapter 12)

· 6-12 potential

· Pauli "repulsion"

· Ideal gas law

· van der Waals gas law

· vdW power?

· Energy density

· Spiders and the induced dipole-dipole interaction

Index of refraction

· Index of refraction and polarization

· Computed from dipole moment

· Expansion with light frequency

Model for current flow

· Current flow

· Drift and thermal speeds

· Fermi speeds

· Combined motions

· Acceleration between collisions

· Viscous drag

· Ohm's Law

· Mean free path and collision time

· Drift speed

· Relativistic speed?

· Magnetic fields and relativity

· Ohm's law and thermal conductivity [Current Position]

· The Maxwell-Boltzmann Wiedemann-Franz Law

· The Fermi-Dirac Wiedemann-Franz Law

· Gravitational analogy

· Capacitors and Resistors

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