Syllabus for Physics 322           Winter 2009

Week 1:  1/5-1/9

            1. Review of electrostatics, preview of magnetostatics

            2. Motion in E and B fields, cycloid (5.1, 5.2)

3. Currents, force on a wire, Ampere’s law, field from a wire (5.2.1-2)

Week 2:  1/12-1/16

            1. Applications of Ampere’s law, infinite solenoid (5.3.1-3)

            2. Field from current sheet, torus (5.3.4)

3. Vector potential (5.4.1-2)

Week 3:  1/19-1/23

            1. Holiday

            2. Vector potential of solenoid, current sheet and small coil (5.4.2)

3. Multipole expansion for vector potential (5.4.3)

Week 4:  1/26-1/30

            1. First midterm exam

            2. Torques and forces on dipoles (6.1.1-6.1.3)

3. Larmor precession, magnetization, bound currents (6.1.4-6.2.2)

Week 5:  2/2-2/6

            1. Uniformly magnetized disk, sphere, H field (6.2.3, 6.3.1)

            2. Boundary conditions on B, H, fields in cavities, linear materials (6.3.2-3, 6.4.1)

3. Torus, electromagnet, closed magnetic circuit

Week 6:  2/9-2/13

            1. Ferromagnetism (6.4.2)

            2. Superconductivity

3. Electrodynamics, conductivity, EMF (7.1.1-7.1.3)

Week 7:  2/16-2/20

            1. Holiday

            2. Motional EMF, Lenz’s law (7.1.3)

3. Faraday’s law (7.2.1-7.2.2)

Week 8:  2/23-2/27

            1. Second midterm exam

            2. Mutual Inductance, inductance (7.2.3)

3. Energy in magnetic fields (7.2.4)

Week 9:  3/2-3/6

            1. Maxwell equations (7.3.1-3, 7.3.5)

2. Boundary conditions (7.3.6)

3. Poyting vector (8.1.1-8.1.2)

Week 10:  3/9-3/13

            1. Momentum in EM fields, EM waves (8.2.1, 8.2.3, 9.2.1)

            2. EM waves (9.1.1-2, 9.2.1-3, 9.3.1)

3. Review