This is the third quarter of the three-quarter junior-level Electricity and Magnetism course for physics majors. We will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 AM - 10:50 AM in room 312 Braunstein. We will be using Electromagnetic Fields by Wangsness again this quarter. Although attendance is not mandatory, you are responsible for all material presented in class, and for all changes to the schedule or plans which are announced in class.
My office is room 411 in the Geology/Physics Building. My office phone number is 556-0533. My home phone number is 533-4265. You are welcome to call me in my office at any time or at home between 8 AM and 10 PM. There are answering machines at both numbers if I do not answer the phone. My e-mail address is sokoloff@physics.uc.edu . I read e-mail frequently. I will schedule a regular office hour after consulting with the class. In addition, you can make appointments with me or stop by my office at any time. I am often around evenings and weekends, and I am available to work with you at these times as well as during "usual" business hours.
The final letter grade for this course will be my best
estimation of your mastery of the material. I expect to base it on
weekly homework assignments, one mid-term examination, and a final
examination. At the moment (March 24, 1999), my default plan is to
use the following:
| weekly homework | 300 |
| mid-term examination | 300 |
| final examination | 400 |
| TOTAL | 1000 |
The exact schedule for lectures and examinations will
depend on how long it takes to cover the material, etc. The following is
my best guess as of March 24. Please note that the mid-term exam
is scheduled for Thursday, May 6.
It will have two questions to be answered in class and two questions
to be taken home. The take-home questions will be due on Monday,
May 10 at 5 PM. The final examination is scheduled
for Thursday, June 10 from 2:15 PM - 4:15 PM.
| class | date | subject |
| 1 | March 30 | Magnetic Materials (Wangsness, Chapter 20) |
| 2 | April 1 | Magnetic Materials (Wangsness, Chapter 20) |
| 3 | April 6 | Magnetic Materials (Wangsness, Chapter 20) |
| 4 | April 8 | The Displacement Current & Maxwell's Equations
(Wangsness, Chapter 21) |
| 5 | April 13 | The Displacement Current & Maxwell's Equations
(Wangsness, Chapter 21) |
| 6 | April 15 | Scalar and Vector Potentials (Wangsness, Chapter 22) |
| 7 | April 20 | Introduction to Plane Waves (Wangsness, Chapter 24) |
| 8 | April 22 | Introduction to Plane Waves (Wangsness, Chapter 24) |
| 9 | April 27 | Introduction to Plane Waves (Wangsness, Chapter 24) |
| 10 | April 29 | Reflection and Refraction of Plane Waves
(Wangsness, Chapter 25) |
| 11 | May 4 | Review |
| 12 | May 6 | Mid-term Examination
(covering material from chapters 20, 21, 22, 24) |
| 13 | May 11 | Reflection and Refraction of Plane Waves
(Wangsness, Chapter 25) |
| 14 | May 13 | Reflection and Refraction of Plane Waves
(Wangsness, Chapter 25) |
| 15 | May 18 | Circuits and Transmission Lines (Wangsness, Chapter 27) |
| 16 | May 20 | Circuits and Transmission Lines (Wangsness, Chapter 27) |
| 17 | May 25 | Special Relativity (Wangsness, Chapter 29) |
| 18 | May 27 | Special Relativity (Wangsness, Chapter 29) |
| 19 | June 1 | Special Relativity (Wangsness, Chapter 29) |
| 20 | June 3 | Review |
Homework
Homework will usually
be due Wednesdays at 5:00 PM in Anup Mishra's
mailbox.
In general, late homework will not be accepted. Approximately
half of the problems will be selected randomly for grading, and each problem
will be graded on a scale from 0 to 10. At the end of the quarter, there
will be approximately 30 graded problems. I plan to drop the lowest 5 in
computing your homework score.
I encourage
you strongly to work with other students doing the assigned problems, and
to talk to me about how to do the problems. The earlier you start
your assignments, the more you are likely to learn.
| due date | problems assigned |
| April 7 | Wangsness 20-1, 20-2, 20-4, 20-9, 20-21, 20-22 |
| April 14 | Wangsness 20-24, 20-25, 20-26, 21-1, 21-3, 21-6 |
| April 21 | Wangsness 21-2, 21-8, 21-9, 21-11, 22-2, 22-5, 22-6 |
| April 28 | Wangsness 24-2, 24-3, 24-4, 24-5, 24-9, 24-13, 24-19 |
| May 5 | Wangsness 24-20, 24-29, 24-31 |
| May 19 | Wangsness 25-2, 25-3, 25-5, 25-11, 25-12, 25-13 |
| May 26 | Wangsness 27-1, 27-4, 27-5, 27-7, 27-8, 27-11, 27-14 |
| June 3 | Wangsness 29-1, 29-3, 29-4, 29-15, 29-18, 29-19 |
| June 10 | Wangsness 29-21, 29-24, 29-25 |