Lecture Schedule for A&EP 355
- (Engineering Co-op summer 2006) (Lecturer: Scott Heinekamp)
- (may be found at http://aurora.wells.edu/~swh/aep/aepsch.htm)
Week One
- May 22 Monday
- I. Vectors. Their derivatives. Coordinate systems. (Ch.Sect.Subsect 1.1-1.2, 1.4)
- May 23 Tuesday
- II. Vector integrals. (1.3)
- May 24 Wednesday
- III. Field of a "point charge." Dirac Delta Function. (1.5)
- May 25 Thursday -- no class
- May 26 Friday
- IV. Coulomb's law for E. (2.1)
Week Two
- May 29 Monday
- V. Lines of E. Electric flux. Gauss's law. (2.2)
- May 30 Tuesday
- VI. (electric) Scalar potential V. (2.3.1-2.3.4)
- May 31 Wednesday
- VII. Boundary conditions for E and V. Conductors. Surface Forces. (2.3.5, 2.5.1-2.5.3)
- June 1 Thursday
- VIII.. Energy of a charge distribution. Capacitors. (2.4, 2.5.4)
- June 2 Friday
- IX. A kind of averaging. Laplace's Equation. Uniqueness. (3.1)
Week Three
- June 5 Monday
- X. Method of images. Separation of variables in spherical geometry. (3.2, 3.3 (skim 3.3.1))
- June 6 Tuesday
- XI. Electric multipole expansion. Dipoles and beyond? (3.4)
- June 7 Wednesday -- no class
- June 8 Thursday
- XII. Polarization in matter. E, P, and D (4.1, 4.2)
- June 9 Friday
- XIII. Boundary conditions in real materials. Linear materials. (2.3.5, 4.3, 4.4)
Week Four
- June 12 Monday
- XIV. Moving charges. Current distributions. Lorentz force. Biot-and-Savart's law for B (5.1, 5.2)
- June 13 Tuesday -- no class
- June 14 Wednesday
- XV. Ampere's law. Solenoids. (5.3)
- June 15 Thursday
- XVI. (magnetic) Vector potential A. (5.4 (first bit of 5.4.2))
- June 16 Friday
- XVII. Magnetic dipoles. Magnetization in matter. (6.1, 6.2)
- June 17 Saturday
- XVIII. B, M, and H. Diamagnetism and paramagnetism. B, M, and
H. (6.3, 6.4.1)
Week Five
- June 19 Monday
- XIX. Ferromagnetism. Boundary conditions in real materials. (6.4.2, 2.3.5, 4.3.3, 5.4.2, 6.3.3, 7.3.6)
- June 20 Tuesday -- no class
- June 21 Wednesday
- XX. Electromotive Force. Magnetic flux. Inductance. (7.1, 7.2.3, 7.2.4)
- June 22 Thursday
- XXI. Faraday's law. (7.2.1, 7.2.2)
- June 23 Friday
- XXII. Energy of a current distribution. (7.2.4)
Week Six
- June 26 Monday
- XXIII. Synthesis of E with B in Maxwell's equations.
The gauge freedom. (7.3. 10.1)
- June 27 Tuesday
- XXIV. Poynting's ideas: field energy and momentum flow. (8.1, definitions of 8.2 but
wait on 8.2.2)
- June 28 Wednesday
- XXIV. Maxwell's stress tensor (8.2)
- June 29 Thursday -- no class
- June 30 Friday
- Final Exam TBA
This version correct as of May 23, 2006