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Physics 3310, Electromagnetism

Instructor: Steven Pollock

Biot Savart

Jean-Baptiste Biot and Felix Savart (above) collaborated on developing a force law for magnetic fields. The Biot-Savart Law is the magnetic equivalent of Coulomb's Law. It's still an inverse square law, but is rather more complicated in its vector nature. We'll study the Biot-Savart Law this week, (or perhaps right the break).

Week 10 (Mar 18-Mar 25):

After wrapping up Ch 4 (D fields, E fields in matter), We are moving on to discuss time independent magnetic fields. Magnetic fields cause forces on moving charged objects via the Lorentz Force. We will concentrate primarily on how to calculate B-fields from a given current distributions. (Oh, and of course, magnets are fun!)

Special notes:

Next homework is HW 10 (Due Wed, Mar 20, with an automatic extension to Friday if you need it)
There is an extensive hint for the last question (try it first!) , and a Tutorial which serves to guide you through the Extra credit, if you want it!
Preflight 10 (review) will be due Friday Mar 22 (Extended to 5 PM)
Please visit our piazza site. I give extra credit for participation there. (The more who do that, the more useful it becomes to the rest of us.)
We also have a D2L (learn.colorado.edu) site - I post solutions there
Video lectures:here.

OLDER Webpages, for reference and old links: Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8, Week 9,

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!)