4 semester credits
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Instructor: David A. Bahr |
Office: S313B |
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E-mail: dbahr@bemidjistate.edu |
Phone: (218) 755-2916 |
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Office hours: posted to web |
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Class meetings: M, T, H, F 10:00-10:50 in S331 |
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Website: http://www.bemidjistate.edu/academics/departments/physics/ |
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Text (required):
Course content:
Ø Brief review of vector calculus
Ø Electrostatics – electric fields and potentials, Gauss’ law
Ø Laplace’s equation, the method of images, multipole expansion
Ø Polarization, electric displacement
Ø Magnetostatics – the Lorentz force law, the Biot-Savart law
Ø Magnetic vector potential
Ø Magnetic fields in matter, magnetization, Ampere’s law
Ø Faraday’s law, Maxwell’s equations
Ø Conservation laws – Poynting’s theorem, Maxwell’s stress tensor
Ø Dipole radiation
Ø Absorption and emission of radiation; scattering
Prerequisites: PHYS 2102, MATH 2490 (or PHYS 3400), PHYS 3600, PHYS 4310 (or consent of instructor)
Co-requisite: PHYS 4310 or consent of instructor
Grade
Weights: Letter
Grades:
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Homework exercises…..…………...50% |
100% - 90%………A |
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Midterm exam………………………20% |
90% - 78% ……… B |
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Final exam …………………………30% |
78% - 62% ……… C |
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62% - 50% ……… D |
Academic Integrity Policy:
Students are encouraged to collaborate on regular exercises and to acknowledge their collaborators by listing on the results submitted the names of all who contributed to the collaboration. Students are reminded that ordinary standards of academic integrity apply, however, and that plagiarism or copying each other's work is unacceptable. Collaboration on exams is not acceptable.
Agenda:
Week 1: Vector algebra and calculus review
Week 2: Vector
analysis review
Week 3: Electrostatics
– the electric field, its divergence and curl
Week 4: Electrostatics
in conductors, electric potential
Week 5: Laplace’s
equation, the method of images, multipole expansion
Week 6: Electric
fields in matter, polarization and electric displacement
Week 7: Magnetostatics –
the Lorentz force law, the Biot-Savart law
Week 8: Divergence and curl of B, vector potential
Week 9: Midterm
Exam
Week 10: Magnetic fields in matter, magnetization, Ampere’s law
Week 11: Electromagnetic induction – Faraday’s law
Week 12: Maxwell’s equations
Week 13: Electromagnetic waves
Week 14:
Absorption, dispersion, guided waves*
Week 15:
Dipole radiation*
Week 16: Final Exam
*Topics to be included only if time permits
Upon request this document
can be made available in alternate formats.
If you have a documented disability and need accommodations for this
course please contact Kathi Hagen in the Disability
Services Office in 202 Sanford Hall. Any
other questions about this course should be directed to the instructor."
Instructor reserves the
right to make minor changes in this syllabus as needed.