PHY 350: Adv. Electricity & Magnetism

Daily action items by date

All reading responses are due by 11:59PM on the date they appear below. In other words, we will cover that material the following day in class.

——- Week 3 items below (9/14 – 9/19) ——-
9/14 (Sun):
• Read 2.3.

9/17 (Wed):
• Due today in class:  Problems 21-32 in the Chapter 1 homework sheet 

9/18 (Thurs):
• Quiz on verify (check both sides) of Div. Th., Stokes' Th., or Fund. Th. of Gradients.  One page, ~10 minutes.

• Read 2.4.

——- Week 2 items below (9/7 – 9/12) ——-
9/7 (Sun):
• Read 1.6.

9/9 (Tues):
• Read 2.1.

9/10 (Wed):
• Due Wed 9/17 in class:  Problems 21-32 in the Chapter 1 homework sheet .

9/11 (Thurs):
• Read 2.2.

• Due in class today: Problems 12-20 in the Chapter 1 homework sheet .

• Meet in Olin basement room 010 to begin a MATLAB assignment on electric fields.  Bring your laptop unless you wish to use the lab computers.  ITS instructions for installing MATLAB on your laptop appear in the middle column.

——- Weeks 0-1 items below (8/28 – 9/5) ——-
8/28 (Thurs):
• Read 1.1-1.2 and post responses via link at the left

8/31 (Sun):
• Read 1.3 (and post responses, which goes without saying in the future)
• Due Friday 9/5: Problems 1-12 (on sections 1.1-1.2) in the Chapter 1 homework sheet. Problem 1 has to do with the discussion on the first day of class. The remaining problems are from sections 1.1-1.2.
9/2 (Tues):
• Read 1.4
9/3 (Wed):
• Read 1.5
• Due Thursday 9/11: Problems 12-20 in the Chapter 1 homework sheet 

9/5 (Fri):
• Due in class today: Problems 1-12 (on sections 1.1-1.2) in the Chapter 1 homework sheet. 

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My lecture notes:
Chapter 1 notes
Chapter 2 notes
Chapter 3 notes
Chapter 4 notes
Chapter 5 notes
Chapter 6 & 7 notes

Old versions of slides from class:
Chapter 1 slides
Chapter 2 slides
Chapter 3 slides
Chapter 4 slides
Chapter 5 slides
Chapter 6 slides
Chapter 7 slides