Week

Date

Topics covered

1

Jan 16-20

chapter 2: electrostatics: Coulomb’s law, electric field, charge distribution

no HW due this week 

2

Jan 23-27

chapter 2: divergence and curl of electric field, Gauss law, electric and gravitational potential, Poisson and Laplace equation, 

HW#1 due friday

Last day to drop - on friday

3

Jan 30-3

chapter 2: work and energy in electrostatics, conductors

HW#2 due friday

4

Feb 6-10

chapter 3: Laplace equation, method of images

HW#3 due friday

5

Feb 13-17

chapter 3: separation of variables, multipole expansion

HW#4 due friday 

6

Feb 20-24

chapter 4: electric fields in matter: dielectrics, polarization,  

No HW this week 

EXAM 1: Friday, Feb 24

7

Feb 27-3

chapter 4: electric displacement and Gauss law, linear dielectric

HW#5 due friday

8

Mar 6-10

chapter 5: magnetostatics: Lorentz force law, Biot-Savart law

HW#6 due friday

9

Mar 13-17

FINALLY!!!!! SPRING BREAK

10

Mar 20-24

chapter 5: divergence and curl of magnetic field, magnetic vector potential

HW#7 due friday

11

Mar 27-31

chapter 6: magnetic fields in matter: magnetic dipole, magnetization, 

HW#8 due friday 

Last day to withdraw - on friday 

12

Apr 3-7

chapter 6: Ampere’s law, linear and nonlinear media

no HW due this week 

EXAM 2: Friday, April 7

13

Apr 10-14

chapter 7: electrodynamics: Ohm’s law, electromotive force, Faraday’s law, inductance, 

HW #9 due friday

14

Apr 17-21

chapter 7: Maxwell’s equations 

no HW due this week

15

Apr 24-28

chapter 8: conservation laws: continuity equation, Poynting’s theorem, Maxwell’s stress tensor

HW#10 due THURSDAY   

16

May 1-5

May 1: Last day of instruction

FINAL:   Friday, May 5, 1-3pm  ……….    Good success !!