Physics 3310, Electromagnetism
Instructor: Steven Pollock
Joseph Fourier , Adrien Legendre, and Simeon-Denies Poisson - all mathematicians (Fourier was a physicist too) These three all worked around the turn of the 19th century, roughly the same era that the early theories of static electromagnetism (the subject of much of this semester) was being developed. Maxwell's unifying work wasn't till the middle of the 1800's.
Up through (and beyond) the early 1800's there was almost complete (and explicit) exclusion of women from higher education (in Europe and the US), hence the unfortunate and rather outrageous gender bias in this cast of characters...
I get these pictures at the Dibner Portrait site.
Week 7 (Feb 25 -Mar 1):
We'll be (nearly) finishing Ch 3. this week - solving Laplace's equation in spherical coordinates,
finding Voltage (and thus E field) in charge-free regions, by using our knowledge of the boundary conditions.
The last topic of Ch 3 is the "multipole expansion", a clever and useful approximation techniqe!
Special notes:
- Next homework is HW 8 (Due Wed Mar 6)
- Next preflight is due MONDAY MORNING
Midterm #1 is coming up: Thursday Feb 28, 7:30. See the exams link (upper left) for more info. It's in our regular room
- I'll be grading Midterm #1, starting over the weekend. Stay tuned here, I'll let you know when it's done.
Solutions are posted on D2L!
- Please visit our piazza site. Some of you are starting to post questions (and responses) there, thanks! (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 homework solutions there
- Video lectures:here.
OLDER Webpages, for reference and old links: Week 1,
Week 2,
Week 3,
Week 4,
Week 5,
Week 6,
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!)
