Course Webpage for
PHYS 320: Electricity and Magnetism I (2014 Fall)
Department of Physics,
Southern Illinois University--Carbondale
Last updated: Dec 12, 2014. (This page is no more maintained.)
- General information:
- Instructor: K. V. Shajesh
(Office: Neckers 491, Tel.: 453-5212)
- Class meetings: MWF 2:00-2:50 PM, in
Neckers 410.
- Office hours: MWF 10:00-11:30AM, R 11:00AM-12:30PM.
- Syllabus for the course.
(Also, the Provost Office has put together a
Syllabus Attachment
to assist the student.
It lists and provides web links for many elements that are important
for a student.)
- Grades will be posted on
SIU Online (password protected).
- Lecture notes:
- Mathematical preliminaries
- Vector algebra using index notation
[20140818,
20140820]
- Vector differentiation
[20140822,
20140825,
20140827]
- Vector integration
[20140829 (See Set 04 of Fall 2013),
20140903]
- Delta function
[20140905]
- Maxwell's equations
- Maxwell's equations in integral and differential form
[20140908]
- Maxwell's equations in different units
[20140908]
- Conservation of charge
[20140910]
- Electrostatics (review)
- Electric field due to an infinite array of charges
- Electric field due to a continuous distribution of charges
[20140915]
- Gauss's law
[20140917 (See Set 11 of Fall 2013),
20140919]
- Electric potential
[20140922]
- Poisson equation
- Fourier transformation (review)
[20140924 (See Set 19 of Fall 2013),
20140926]
- Poisson equation - Point charge (Green's function)
[20140929]
- Poisson equation - Point dipole
[20141001]
- Poisson equation - Uniformly charged solid sphere
[20141003]
- Uniqueness of solutions in electrostatics
[20141006]
- Poisson equation - Planar geometry
[20141008]
- Macroscopic electrodynamics
- Effective charge density - Polarization vector
[20141017]
- Macroscopic Maxwell's equations
[20141020]
- Magnetic dipole moment [20141022, no notes posted]
- Electrically polarized slab filling half space
[20141024]
- Uniformly electrically polarized sphere
[20141027]
- Dielectric models and response functions
[20141029]
- Green's function - planar geometry (Fourier exponential functions)
- Forced harmonic oscillator - a non-homogeneous linear differential equation
[20141031]
- Green's function - differential equation
[20141103,
20141105]
- Green's function for electrostatics
[20141110]
- Green's function for planar dielectric interface
[20141112]
- Method of images - Snell's law for electric field lines
[20141114]
- Force on a dielectric plate due to a charge
[20141117]
- Planar geometry in cylindrical coordinates (Bessel functions or cylinder harmonics)
- Bessel function of 0-th order
[20141119]
- Bessel function of m-th order
[20141121]
- Addition formula
[20141121]
- Power series
[20141121]
- Differential equation
[20141124]
- Completeness and othogonality
[20141124]
- Cylindrical geometry (Modified Bessel functions)
- Modified Bessel function of 0-th order
[20141201]
- Tentative outline of topics to be covered by May 2015:
- Green's function - cylindrical geometry (Bessel functions)
- Green's function - spherical geometry (Spherical harmonics)
- Magnetostatics
- Electrodynamics - Special relativity
- Radiation
- Scattering
- Reflection and refraction
- Diffraction
- Homeworks:
- Homework No. 01
and solutions
(Vectors, Vector differentiation.)
- Homework No. 02
and solutions
(Vector integration and delta functions.)
- Homework No. 03
and solutions
(Maxwell's equations in various units)
- Homework No. 04
and solutions
(Gauss's law)
- Homework No. 05
and solutions
(Electric potential)
- Homework No. 06
and solutions
(Electrostatics)
- Homework No. 07
and solutions
(Macroscopic electrodynamics)
- Homework No. 08
and solutions
(Green's function)
- Homework No. 09
and solutions
(Method of images)
- Homework No. 10
and solutions
(Bessel functions)
- Exams:
- Midterm Exam No. 01
and solutions
- Midterm Exam No. 02
and solutions
- Midterm Exam No. 03
and solutions
- Final Exam
and solutions
- More information:
- Textbook: Introduction to Electrodynamics,
4th Edition, by David J. Griffiths.
- References:
- Classical Electrodynamics,
by J. Schwinger, L. L. DeRaad, Jr., K. A. Milton, and Wu-yang Tsai.
- Electromagnetic Theory, by J. A. Stratton.
- Classical Electrodynamics, by J. D. Jackson.
- Course webpage for 2013 Fall
- Evaluation: Homework-30%, Midterm Exams (3x15%)-45%,
Final Exam-25%.
- Exam schedule:
- Exam I - September 12 (Friday, in class),
- Exam II - October 10 (Friday, in class),
- Exam III - November 7 (Friday, in class),
- Final Exam - December 10 (Wednesday, 2:00-3:45 PM).
Last updated on
Dec 12, 2014 (and is no more maintained)
by K V Shajesh
(kvshajesh@gmail.com).