COURSE TIME: MWF 10:00-10:50 pm. COURSE LOCATION: Roessler 55. INSTRUCTOR: Richard Scalettar OFFICE: Physics-Geology 409. OFFICE HOURS: Mo 3:00 pm -4:00 pm; or by appointment. PROBLEM SESSION (Optional attendence): Wednesday, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm, Physics 80 (basement) TEACHING ASSISTANTS (and office hours): Fayez Abu-ajamieh (Physics 396, Tuesdays 2:00 - 3:00 pm) Weixuan Hu (Physics 382, Thursdays 11:00 am - noon) TEXT: David Griffiths, "Introduction to Electrodynamics", 4th Edition GRADING: Homework 40% Midterm Exams 30%: Wednesday January 24, Friday February 23 Final Exam 30%: Friday, March 23, 6:00-8:00 pm. Music from "The Magnetic Fields!"

Get your math right!

SYLLABUS:
Griffiths Chapter 1: Vector Analysis
Griffiths Chapter 2: Electrostatics
Griffiths Chapter 3: Potentials
Griffiths Chapter 4: Electric Fields in Matter

NOTES
Notes on Vectors, part 1
Differentiating and Integrating Vector Fields, part 1
Integrating Vector Fields, part 2
Spherical Coordinates (brief! read Griffiths!)
Dirac Delta Function
Knonecker Delta
Fun with Knonecker and Levi-Civita
Gauge Freedom
Potentials in Classical Mechinacs, a review
Potentials in EM, part 1
Potentials in EM, part 2
Sturm Liouville Theory (complete sets of functions)
Notes on Bessel functions
Laplace Equation in Spherical Coordinates
Multipole Expansions
Electrostatic Fields in Matter, part one
Electrostatic Fields in Matter, part two
Electrostatic Fields in Matter, part three

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS AND EXAMS
Assignment 1
Solutions
Assignment 2
Solutions
Midterm 1 (with solutions)
Assignment 3
Solutions
Assignment 4
Solutions
Assignment 5
Solutions
Midterm 2 (with solutions)
Assignment 6
Solutions
Assignment 7
Solutions
Assignment 8
Solutions
Final Exam with Solutions