Welcome to Phy 513: Electrodynamics I in Fall 2006

Phy 513 is dedicated to the study of electrostatics, magnetostatics and Maxwell's equations. The course syllabus and lecture notes are given below.

Syllabus

Phy513_F06_syllabus

Lecture Notes

Our first topic is contained in this scanned file

The very first homework exercise is given on the last page of the file that can be found below.

Chap 1: Mathematical Preliminaries

Chap 2: Electrostatics I

Chap 3: Electrostatics II

Homework Assignments:

(note: assigned on Tuesdays and Thursdays, due at 12pm following Tuesday at Prof. Sen's mailbox in 239 Fronczak Hall)

Exercise 1A

Exercise 1B

Exercise 2A

Exercise 3A

Solutions are posted in due time on UBLearns for obvious reasons

Assigned Readings:

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(1) Lecture Notes

(2) Jackson - pages 1-29

(3) Article on Gauss' Law

(4) Website on use of Dirichlet Boundary Conditions in Robotics

(5) Brilliant write up on how to find electric field for a charged-ring and connections with approximating the painful elliptic integrals

Calendar

Here is the calendar below lists the class days and the university holidays.

Fall Semester 2006

Class days are

August : 29, 31

September: 5, 7, 21, 26, 28

October: 3,5,10, 12,17, 19,24,26,31

November: 2,7,9,14,16,21,28

December: 5,7