Physics 3310, Electromagnetism
Instructors: Steven Pollock, Stephanie Chasteen, and Darren Tarshis
Magnets can attract or repel regular materials (which can be diamagnetic or paramagnetic) . Read about it, or see the
movie. You can use this effect to levitate objects - including the magnet in this picture, or strawberries, or...
Frogs do it too. (We'll likely be studying this next week)
Week 12 (Apr 7 - Apr 11):
This week will start with Ampere's law, and then we'll talk about the vector potential - a kind of rough magnetic analogue to voltage.
Special notes:
- I will be out of town Monday afternoon (Apr 14) and Tuesday (Apr 15). Stephanie will run the usual Tues 3:30 study session, but it will be on the other side (the "commons room")
- New sims: A magnetic vector field simulator, vector3dm , or one from MIT
- Check out these links for simulations to show vector fields in 2D and 3D and another (emstatic) in 2D.
- OFFICE HOURS:
Mon 4 PM, in the Tutorial bay in the basement (with Stephanie Chasteen)
Tues (3:30-5 PM, 11th floor)
Friday, 4 PM, (in a Tutorial bay in the basement), Darren Tarshis runs his "3310 Tutorial".
- Reading: Chapter 5 this week
- Written Homework: Always due Wed at the start of class - see the assignments link (always available on the upper left).
I welcome your comments on the class and this website.
Send them to steven.pollock at colorado.edu
(Thanks to Prof. Chuck Rogers for many of our home page image ideas!)
Old home pages this term: Week 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 , 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
