Week       Dates                Lecture Topics                          Reading Assignments

    1           Sep 2               Electrostatics: Introduction                2.1   

    2           Sep 8               Electric fields                                     2.1

                 Sep 9               Electric fields & vector analysis         2.1 

    3           Sep 13             Gauss’s Law                                      2.2  

                 Sep 16             Gauss’s Law                                      2.2

    4           Sep 20             Electric potential                                2.3 

                 Sep 23             Electric potential                                2.3 

    5           Sep 27             Work and energy                               2.4

                 Sep 30             Conductors and capacitance             2.5 

    6           Oct 4                Potentials: Laplace’s Equation          3.1

                 Oct 7                Uniqueness of solutions                    3.1

    7           Oct 11              Method of images                              3.2

                 Oct 14              Separation of variables                      3.3

    8           Oct 18              Separation of variables                      3.3  

                 Oct 21              Midterm Exam

    9           Oct 25              Multipole expansion                           3.4

                 Oct 28              Electric fields in matter;                      4.1

   10          Nov 1               Polarization                                         4.1

                 Nov 4               Polarization-induced fields                  4.2   

   11          Nov 8               The D-field                                           4.3

                 Nov 11              Linear dielectrics                                 4.4    

   12          Nov 15              Magnetostatiscs, Currents                  5.1                 

                 Nov 18              Biot-Savart Law                                  5.2

   13          Nov 22              Curl and divergence of B                    5.3      

                 Nov 25              Thanksgiving break - No class   

   14          Nov 29              No class (Wed Class on a Mon)       

                 Dec 2                Ampere’s Law                                     5.3

   15          Dec 6                Magnetic vector potential                    5.4

                 Dec 9                Magnetization                                      6.1           

   16          Dec 13              The Field of Magnetized Objects         6.2

                                    

In addition to these assignments, we’ll be reviewing Chapter 1.1-1.6.