Calendar for E&M II Fall 2011
Written homework was assigned on Wednesdays, due the following Wednesdays at the start of class.
Weekend Preflights (online homework) were made available on Friday afternoons, due the following MONDAY MORNING (at 10 AM).
Students were expected to complete the readings before the lecture.
For all the detailed lecture notes (scans of handwritten notes) see the FA11 course lecture notes page.
For each lecture in the list below there is a link to the clicker data from that day, which includes a screenshot for each question and student responses. More detailed information on all of the clicker questions from lectures (and a few extras) can be found in the Clickers tab.
When appropriate, there are also links to PDF versions of handouts or slides for class activities used on that day. All of the FA11 class activities and source files can be downloaded in a single zipped file.
| WEEK |
Reading |
Lecture Topics | Homework due this week! |
| Week 1: Aug 22 - 26 |
Review Griffiths Ch. 1-6. Focus on ch. 2 and 5, and 1 as needed. Also, see my "lecture notes" link! |
Introduction, then review all week. 1. Overview of 3310, focus on electrostatics. 2. Review of Electrostatics and Gauss' law 3. More review of electrostatics |
Pretest due Tuesday 5 PM in my mailbox. Homework #0 : Due Wed start of class (!) |
| Week 2: Aug 29 - Sep 2 |
Ch. 7.1 for Wed. |
1. Conductors, magnetostics: Finish review? 2. Ohm's law 3. Finish Ohm's law (example), and start on EMF |
Preflight #1: Due Mon at 10 AM!! (Log in to D2L, then our course, then find the "quizzes" link, and follow that to Preflight #1. We grade this only on participation, not on correctness) Homework #1: Due Wed start of class |
| Week 3: Sep 5 - 9 (Monday holiday!) |
Ch 7.2.2 for Wed. and Friday |
1. (Holiday!) 2. EMF and Motional EMF, the "flux rule" 3. More on "flux rule", and Faraday's law |
Preflight #2: Due Wed (because of holiday) at 10 AM!! (Log in to D2L, then our course, then find the "quizzes" link, and follow that... We grade this only on participation, not on correctness) Homework #2: Due Wed Start of class |
| Week 4: Sep 12 - 16 |
Ch 7.2.3 for Mon. Then 7.2.4 for Fri. Then we will be covering "RLC" circuits and phasors - you need to see my lecture notes link! |
1. Faraday's law 2. Mutual inductance, Inductors 3. Energy, and Inductors in simple circuits |
Preflight #3:Due Mon at 10 AM. Homework #3: Due Wed Start of class |
| Week 5: Sep 19 - 23 |
Finish RLC notes on Wed (see above). We'll move on to Griffiths 7.3.1-3 starting on Friday. |
1. More inductors in circuits - "phasors" 2. Solving more general circuits with phasor idea (including Capacitors) 3. The Maxwell-Ampere term |
Preflight #4: Due Mon at 10 AM. Homework #4: Due Wed Sep 23 Start of class |
| Week 6: Sep 26 - 30 |
7.3.4-6 this week.
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1. Full maxwell equations, and full equations in matter (with a brief review of D and H fields - but you should review Ch 4 and 6 yourself ahead of time to remember the basics of polarization, magnetization, D, and H) 2. More on equations in matter, and boundary conditions 3. Wrapping up Ch 7 (boundary conditions) today. We'll be moving into "conservation of energy ideas" (Ch 8). |
Preflight #5: Due Mon at 10 AM. Homework #5: Due |
| Week 7: Oct 3 - 7 (1st exam Tue Oct 4, 7 PM!) |
8.2.1 We're not going through 8.2.2 in detail, but will focus on the ideas! (Ditto 8.2.3 and 8.2.4) So, read it, with an eye to understanding the big picture. 9.1.1 and 9.1.2 (Fri) (See Ch 8 lecture notes) |
1. Poynting's theorem and conservation of energy. 2. Conservation of momentum. 3. Wrapping up conservation laws, and starting on waves |
Preflight #6: Due Mon (I extended the deadline to Mon afternoon, but suggest that in fact, you get this done earlier than usual, not later (like, over the weekend) Look back on Mon - it's exam review. (No new homework due this week, because of the Tuesday exam) Notes on the JOURNAL PAPER homework assignment |
Week 8: |
9.1.3-4, and 9.2 (all) (There are some lecture notes for Ch 9. More coming soon!) |
1. 1D and 3D Waves 2. EM Waves 3. More on EM waves |
Preflight #7: Due Mon @ 10 AM. Homework 6 due on Wed. (Oct 12) |
| Week 9: Oct 17 - 21 |
Read Griffiths 9.3.1-3 for this week
Also, see lecture notes for Ch 9. |
1. Waves in matter, boundary conditions 2. Light scattering, reflection and transmission 3. More on reflection and transmission |
Preflight #8: Due Mon @ 10 AM. Homework 7 due on Wed. (Oct 19) |
| Week 10: Oct 24 - 28 |
Read Griffiths 9.4.1 for Monday and 9.4.2 for Wed, and just start 9.4.3 for Friday. |
1. Wrap up R&T at oblique angles, then start on EM waves hitting conductors 2. EM waves in conductors 3. Reflection from conductors, and the "good conductor" limit. |
Preflight #9: Due Mon @ 10 AM. Homework 8 due on Wed. (Oct 26!) (Note: as advertised, there is a hint (with an intermediate step) available on our "virtual office hours")
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| Week 11: Oct 31 - Nov 4 (2nd exam Nov 1) |
Read Griffiths 9.4.3 for Mon. (We will skip 9.5!) |
1. Frequency dependence, phase and group velocity. (Dispersion) 2. Continuing with dispersion, and "anomalous dispersion) 3. Wrap up Ch 9, then start on potentials, V and A. (And, "gauge" choices) |
Preflight #10: Due Mon @ 10 AM. |
| Week 12: Nov 7 - 11 |
Read through 10.2.1. (You can skip p. 424 if you want) |
1. More on the potentials, finding E and B, and gauge choices. 2. "Retarded time" in the Lorentz gauge. 3. Wrap up retarded time and summarize other Ch 10 topics. Intro to EM Radiation |
Preflight #11: Due Mon @ 10 AM. Homework 9 due on Wed. |
| Week 13: Nov 14 - 18 |
Read thru 11.1.3 for Mon. (We'll skip most of the rest of Ch 11, except for Eq 11.70 and some of the conceptual ideas in the rest of this chapter.) We'll get started on relativity Fri: 12.1.1-2 should be a review of Physics 3, but I'm guessing you'll want to "relearn" that! See the extra relativity review powerpoints (or, pdf version, if you don't have powerpoint) |
1. EM radiation from dipoles 2. More EM radiation 3. Blue sky, Larmor formula, and start special relativity, intro to Lorentz transformations. |
Preflight #12: Due Mon @ 10 AM. Homework 10 due on |
| T-giving, yay! Nov 21-25 |
No new readings - (the last two weeks of the term we'll be working our way through the rest of Chapter 12 of Griffiths) | Eat, drink, relax, enjoy, reenergize! | (No HW this week!) |
| Week 14: Nov 28 - Dec 2 |
Read through 12.1.4 for Monday. We'll cover 12.2 the rest of the week. |
1. Relativity, the Lorentz transformations 2. 4 vectors 3) 4-velocity, invariants, and space-time diagrams. |
Preflight #13: Due Mon @ 10 AM. (This preflight will go live during T-giving week) See the extra relativity review powerpoints (or, pdf version, if you don't have powerpoint) Homework 11 will be due at the usual time, Wed (Nov 30) |
| Week 15: Dec 5 - 9 (Final is Tue Dec 13, 1:30) |
Finish 12.2 if you haven't already, and this week we'll finish Ch 12! |
1. More on invariants, space-time intervals, 4-momentum,conservation of momentum 2. Practice test today! 3. Wrapping up, with a focus on "covariant notation". |
Preflight #14: Due Mon @ 10 AM. (Last one!) Homework 12 (Last one!) will be due at the usual time, Wed (Dec 7) |