Professor: Ken Intriligator
5234 Mayer Hall
keni@ucsd.edu
Office Hours: Thurs. 11:00-12:30,
or by appointment. 		 TA: Ryan Baumbach
2322 Mayer Hall
baumbach@physics.ucsd.edu
Office Hours: Weds. 3:00-4:00pm,
or by appointment. 

       

Text: Introduction to Electrodynamics, 3rd Edition, by David J. Griffiths. This and other possibly useful texts will be placed on reserve at the Undergraduate Library.

Course Times : Lect: MWF 11:00-11:50am, University Center, Building 413, room 1.

Homework: Assigned weekly, due FRIDAY, at the START of lecture. Will also be accepted at the following lecture, but with a 20% penalty. Worst score set will be dropped. Problems marked with * are also recommend, but not to be turned in.

Midterm: Friday, Nov. 1, during the lecture time. Bring 1 sheet notes and bluebook.

Final: Friday The 13th! 11:30-2:30. Bring bluebooks.

Grading: Homework=25%, Midterm=25%, Final=50%.

Exams and solutions: Midterm        Final

Midterm and Final Statistics         2002 Nobel Prize in Physics

General info and rules        Phys. 100a last year       Phys 100b, 2003

Week# Topics (and link to lecture notes) Homework (and link to solutions)
1 Review of vector calculus  1.7, 1.12, 1.33, 1.42*, 1.44, 1.47, 1.49, 1.62*
2 Coulomb's law, electric field, Gauss' law   2.3, 2.6, 2.8, 2.9, 2.14, 2.16.
3 Properties of E and scalar potential   2.20, 2.21, 2.24, 2.25 (for disk (c) only), 2.26, 2.27,
4 Work and energy  problems      solutions
5 Condutors, capacitance, forces, Laplace eqn   *2.35 to 2.40* (none to turn in)
6 Method of images, separation of variables  HW EXTENDED TO NEXT WEEK.
7 Separation of variables cont   3.6, 3.9, 3.10, 3.12, 3.13, 3.15
8 Spherical problems and Multipoles   3.22, 3.27, 3.28, 3.31, 3.40
9 Electric fields in matter: polarization and D field. Happy Thanksgiving!
10 More on D field and Dielectrics. 4.10, 4.15, 4.18, 4.19, 4.24, 4.26