Joseph Fourier , Adrien Legendre, and Simeon-Denies Poisson. (I'll have some new images for you next week!) I get these pictures at the Dibner Portrait site.

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...

Week 8 (Mar 4-Mar 8):

Starting Chapter 4 this week, moving our study of dipoles (by themselves) into matter - what about the E field created by large collections of dipoles that make up ordinary material? This is the physics of "dielectrics", the intermediate (and much more ubiquitous) compromise between conductors and vacuum!

Special notes:

• Next homework is HW 8 (Due Wed Mar 6)
• Next homework is HW 9 (Due Wed Mar 13)
• NEW: NEXT PREFLIGHT due FRIDAY MORNING Mar 8
• - Exam 1 Solutions are posted on D2L!
  - The histogram is on our Exams page (always available, last of the "Other links", upper left)
  - Your individual scores are also up on D2L! "Estimated grade" comes from the formula on our exams and grades link
  
  
• 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.
  
  

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

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!)