Week

Date

Topics covered

1

Jan 12-16

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

no HW due this week 

2

Jan 19-23

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

HW#1 due friday

Last day to drop - on friday

3

Jan 26-30

chapter 2: Poisson and Laplace equation, work and energy in electrostatics, conductors

HW#2 due friday

4

Feb 2-6

chapter 3: Laplace equation, method of images

HW#3 due friday

5

Feb 9-13

chapter 3: separation of variables, multipole expansion

HW#4 due friday 

6

Feb 16-20

chapter 5: magnetostatics: Lorentz force law

No HW this week 

EXAM 1: Friday, Feb 20

7

Feb 23-27

chapter 5: Biot-Savart law, divergence and curl of magnetic field

HW#5 due friday

8

Mar 2-6

chapter 5: magnetic vector potential

HW#6 due friday

9

Mar 9-13

FINALLY!!!!! SPRING BREAK

10

Mar 16-20

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

HW#7 due friday

11

Mar 23-27

chapter 7: Faraday’s law, inductance

HW#8 due friday 

Last day to withdraw - on friday 

12

Mar 30-3

chapter 7: Maxwell’s equations 

no HW due this week 

EXAM 2: Friday, April 3

13

Apr 6-10

chapter 4: electric fields in matter: dielectrics, polarization, electric displacement and Gauss law, linear dielectric

HW #9 due friday

14

Apr 13-17

chapter 6: magnetic fields in matter: magnetic dipole, magnetization, Ampere’s law, linear and nonlinear media

no HW due this week

15

Apr 20-24

chapter 7: Maxwell’s equation

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

HW#10 due THURSDAY   

16

April 27-1

April 27: Last day of instruction

FINAL:   Wednesday, April 29, 10:15am-12:15  ……….    Good success !!