Physics 610
Spring 2018

Electricity and Magnetism I 

Course Materials:

• Week 0: 1/18                   Maxwell's Equations Review
  Syllabus
  Introductory overheads (Thursday, January 18, 2018)
  Tuesday, January 18 Lecture: Maxwell's equations
  Problem Set 1 (due Thursday, January 25, 2018)
  
  
• Week 1: 1/23-25              Special Relativity
  Tuesday, January 23 Lecture: Electrodynamic Potentials and Special Relativity
  Thursday, January 25 Lecture: Lorentz Transformations
  Problem Set 2 (due Thursday, February 1, 2018)
  
  
• Week 2: 1/30-2/1              Relativistic Electrodynamics
  Tuesday, January 30 Lecture: 4-vectors and 4-tensors
  Thursday, February 1 Lecture: Manifestly Relativistic Electrodynamics
  Problem Set 3 (due Thursday, February 8, 2018)
  
  
• Week 3: 2/6-8                  Classical Field Theory
  Tuesday, February 6 Lecture: Introduction to Classical Field Theory
  Thursday, February 8 Lecture: Lagrangian Electrodynamics
  Problem Set 4 (due Thursday, February 15, 2018)
  
  
• Week 4: 2/13-15              Noether's Theorem
  Tuesday, February 13 Lecture: Noether's Theorem
  Thursday, February 15 Lecture: The Stress-Energy Tensor and Conservation Laws
  Problem Set 5 (due Thursday, February 22, 2018)
  
  
• Week 5: 2/20-22              Lorentz Group and Thomas Precession
  Tuesday, February 20 Lecture: The Lorentz Group
  Thursday, February 22 Lecture: Thomas Precession
  Problem Set 6 (due Thursday, March 15, 2018)
  
  
• Week 6: 2/27-3/1              Thomas-BMT Equation and Intro to Electrostatics
  Tuesday, February 27 Lecture: 4-spin and the Thomas-BMT equation
  Thursday, March 1 Lecture: Introduction to Electrostatics
  Overheads for Thursday, March 1, 2018 ("pillars of electrostatics")
  
  Spring Break for 3/6 and 3/8
  Optional tutorial on the E&M physics of LIGO's gravitational wave detectors: the rubber ruler paradox
  
  
• Week 7: 3/13-15              Midterm and Electrostatics
  Midterm (in-class) on Tuesday, March 13.
  Thursday, March 15 Lecture: Perfect Conductors
  Problem Set 7 (originally due Thursday, March 22, now due Tuesday, March 27, 2018)
  
  
• Week 8: 3/20-22              Method of Images and Green's Functions
  Tuesday, March 20 Lecture: Method of Images
  Thursday, March 22 Lecture: Green's Functions
  
  
• Week 9: 3/27-29              Separation of Variables
  Tuesday, March 27 Lecture: Separation of Variables for Cartesian Symmetry
  Thursday, March 29 Lecture: Separation of Variables for Cylindrical Symmetry
  Problem Set 8 (due Thursday, April 5, 2018)
  
  
• Week 10: 4/3-5                Spherical Harmonics
  Tuesday, April 3 Lecture: Azimuthal Symmetry and Legendre Polynomials
  Thursday, April 5 Lecture: Spherical Harmonics
  Problem Set 9 (extended deadline: Tuesday, April 17, 2018)
  
  
• Week 11: 4/10-12              Multipole Expansion
  Tuesday, April 10 Lecture: Electric Dipoles
  Thursday, April 12 Lecture: The Multipole Expansion
  Overheads for Thursday, April 12, 2018 ("Quasi-electrostatic laser traps")
  Quiz covering orthonormality relations of spherical functions on Thursday, April 12, 2018.
  
  
• Week 12: 4/17-18-19            Capacitors and Dielectrics
  Note: Extra lecture on Wednesday, April 18.
  Tuesday, April 17 Lecture: Capacitance
  Wednesday, April 18 Lecture: Dielectrics
  Thursday, April 19 Lecture: Method of Images for Linear Dielectrics
  Problem Set 10 (due Thursday, April 26, 2018)
  
  
• Week 13: 4/24-26-27            Magnetostatics
  Note: Extra lecture on Friday, April 27.
  Tuesday, April 24 Lecture: Introduction to Magnetostatics
  Thursday, April 26 Lecture: Magnetic Dipoles, Quadrupoles, and Anapole Moments
  Friday, April 27 Lecture: Magnetic Materials
  
  The final exam is on Thursday, May 3, 2018 for 9am-noon in Small Hall 235.