Physics 405 Spring 14. Course Title: Electricity and
Magnetism I, Section 001, Call Number 26998, Cr 03, MWF
11:00-11:50 PandA 5, instructor is Dinesh Loomba, dloomba@unm.edu , office in
room 131 of the Physics and Astronomy (P&A) Building at the northeast
corner of Lomas and Yale. The prerequisites for this course are the
successful completion of Math 311 and MATH 316.
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Text and other material. Mandatory Text: Introduction to
Electrodynamics by David Griffiths, 4th ed. (If you would like to or already have the 3rd
edition please check with me.) There are many other useful texts in
Intermediate E&M but I would recommend Feynman’s Lectures vol. II and for help on the Math I would also suggest Div-Grad-Curl
and All That, by Schey. The problem session (Physics 415
section 001) should be helpful but is not required. In addition, as the course proceeds I’ll add material below
on supplementary topics (either reading or notes).
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Office hours and TA help. My office hours will be in room 131 at 1-2pm on T and
12:30-1:30 on Th and by appointment. I'll be in room 131. Wednesday from
1PM-1:50PM I will be teaching the problems session in PandA Rm 5 and you are
welcome to drop by to ask questions or do problems. If none of these
times work for you then please make an appointment. The TA will be Xiaodong
Qi, and his office hours will be on T from 2-4PM in room 30, and you
can also e-mail him to make an appt. (qxd@unm.edu).
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Grading: The grading in the course will be based on performance in homework (HW) assignments (30%), mid-terms (MT) exams (40% total), and a final exam (30%). As we agreed, midterms will occur approximately every 3 weeks on Fridays from 12-2PM in room 5. There will be 10-12 assignments in all during the semester. You are encouraged to collaborate, but your final solutions should be independent. Each exam will be closed-book.
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Approximate Schedule of Topics: Our goal will be
to cover Chapters 1-7 this semester
We will spend the first 2 weeks reviewing vector
analysis, and introducing the Dirac delta function, and other math topics;
Reading: Chapter 1
TEST 1: Friday Feb 7th 12-2PM in room 5
(Chapter 1)
We will spend the next ~2-3 weeks on Chap 2
(electrostatics)
Reading: Chapter 2
TEST 2: Friday Feb 28th 11-1PM in
room 5 (Chapter 2 and part of 3 (I will let you know in class on the 21st)
Reading: Chapter 3
TEST 3: Friday Mar 28th 12-2PM in
room 5 (Chapter 3)
Reading: Chapter 4
Reading: Chapter 5
TEST 4: Friday Apr 25th 12-2PM in
room 5 (Chapter 4 and part of 5)
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Homework Assignments
HW #1, due Friday 1/31 in class, solutions
HW #2, due Wed 2/5 in class, solutions
HW #3a due Friday 2/14 in class, solutions
HW #3b due Friday 2/14 in class, solutions
HW #4 due Friday 2/21 in class, solutions
HW #4b due Wednesday 2/26 in class, solutions
HW #5 due Monday 3/10 in class, solutions
HW #6 due Friday 3/14 in class, solutions
HW #7 due Monday 3/24 in class, solutions
HW #8 due Wednesday 4/2 in class, solutions
HW #9 due Friday 4/11 in class, solutions
HW #10 due Friday 4/17 in class, solutions
HW #11 due Wednesday 4/23 in class, solutions
HW #12 due Friday 5/2 in class, solutions