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The final exam will take place on Thursday May 13 at 9am on UNM Learn.

To access the Zoom links below, you will need to log in with your UNM Net ID. The Zoom meeting password will be emailed to you at the beginning of the semester.

Syllabus

The detailed syllabus can be found here.

Lectures

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:00-2:15pm on Zoom. If the COVID situation improves and students are comfortable coming to class, we might meet in PAIS 1140. If you don't hear from me, assume that the class will take place online.

Textbook

Textbook for the class
Introduction to Electrodynamics (4th Edition) by D. J. Griffiths. Older editions of the book are likely fine as well. The course will cover Chapters 1-6.

Additional resource
Electricity and Magnetism by E. Purcell and D. Morin.

Office hours

Instructor
Tuesdays 3:00-4:00pm and Thursdays 10:00-11:00am on Zoom. These are my preferred "office" hours. If you can't make my regular office hours, or if your questions cannot wait, please send me an email to set up an appointment.

Teaching assistant
The teaching assistant is Ali Kazemi (akazemins@unm.edu). He will be available on Thursdays 3:30-4:30pm for you to call in (Zoom) and discuss any homework grading issues you may have. If you need to schedule an appointment outside of the TA's office hours please send him an email.

Grading

The grading in the course will be based on your performance in homework assignments, two midterm exams, and a final exam. The contribution to the final grade is as follows:

1. Homework: the best 10 scores of the 11 assignments will represent the 20% of the final grade.
   
2. Two midterm exams: each of them will represent the 25% of the final grade.
3. Final: will represent the remaining 30% of the final grade.

The midterm exams are tentatively scheduled for February 18 and April 1 during (extended) class time, and the final exam will be held during exam week.

Homework assignments

There will be 11 assignments during the semester. The assignments will be posted in the tentative schedule about 7-10 days before they are due. The login information necessary to access the homework PDFs will be provided in the first class. The homework must be submitted on the UNM Learn platform at 5pm on the day they are due. Late homework policy: homework returned in the next 24 hours after the due date will be accepted but with 25% penalization. After these 24 hours the corresponding solutions will be posted here, and homework assignments submitted after solutions post will not be graded.

While I strongly encourage you to discuss the homework assignments with your classmates, the work you hand in must be entirely yours.

Problems class

Listed officially as PHYS 415, this is a very important adjunct to the main lecture class, taking place every Fridays from 9 to 9:50am on Zoom. It will provide you additional practice with solving problems beyond the homework assignments and self study. Furthermore, the class will also give you a valuable opportunity to bring to my attention your difficulties with any concepts covered in the lecture class so I can address them in a group setting. The problem sheets would be posted here on the Wednesday before the problem class. The corresponding solutions will be posted after the class. You will receive credit for the problems class as long as you register and show up for more than 10 sessions. Even if you don't register for the class, I encourage you to attend anyway, just to get the extra practice.

Syllabus topics

You can find the calendar for the course in the tentative schedule.

1. Review of mathematical tools
   - Vector algebra
   
   - Vector differential and integral calculus
   
   - Curvilinear coordinates
   
   - Dirac delta function
   
2. Electrostatics
   - Electric field
   
   - Electric potential
   
   - Electrostatic work and energy
   
   - Conductors
   
3. Boundary value problems in electrostatics
   - Laplace's equation
   
   - The method of images
   
   - Separation of variables
   
   - Multipole expansions
   
4. Electric field in matter
   - Bound charges and electric polarization
   
   - Electric displacement field
   
   - Linear dielectrics
   
   - Energy in dielectrics
   
5. Magnetostatics
   - Lorentz force
   
   - Biot-Savart and Ampere laws
   
   - Correspondences between electrostatics and magnetostatics
   
   - Magnetic vector potential
   
6. Magnetic fields in Matter
   - Magnetic dipoles and magnetization
   
   - Magnetic field of a magnetized object
   
   - Magnetic media
   

Tentative schedule

Date	Lecture Notes	Griffiths Reading	Homework	HW Due	Solutions
Week 1 01/18-01/22	Vector algebra review Vector calculus 1	Ch 1.1-1.2 Ch 1.2-1.3	Homework 1	01/27	Homework 1 Solutions
Week 2 01/25-01/29	Vector calculus 2 Vector calculus 3	Ch 1.2-1.4 Ch 1.3-1.6	Homework 2	02/05	Homework 2 Solutions
Week 3 02/01-02/05	Dirac Delta Electric field 1 Electric field 2	Ch 2.1 Ch 2.2
Week 4 02/8-02/12	Curl and Potential Electric Energy 1	Ch 2.2 Ch 2.3-2.4	Homework 3	02/16	Homework 3 Solutions
Week 5 02/15-02/19	Electric Energy 2  Midterm #1: 02/18 in class	Ch 2.4	Homework 4	02/26	Midterm 1 Solutions Homework 4 Solutions
Week 6 02/22-02/26	Conductors 1 Conductors 2	Ch 2.5 Ch 2.5
Week 7 03/01-03/05	Image Charges Induced Charges Laplace's Equation 1	Ch 3.1-3.2 Ch. 3.1-3.2	Homework 5	03/05	Homework 5 Solutions
Week 8 03/08-03/12	Laplace's Equation 2 Laplace's Equation 3	Ch. 3.3 Ch. 3.3	Homework 6	03/12	Homework 6 Solutions
Week 9 03/15-03/19	Spring Break
Week 10 03/22-03/26	Laplace's Equation 4 Multipole Expansion 1 Multipole Expansion 2	Ch 3.3-3.4 Ch 3.4	Homework 7	03/30	Homework 7 Solutions
Week 11 03/29-04/02	Chap 3 Review Midterm #2: 04/01				Solutions Q8 Midterm 2
Week 12 04/05-04/09	Dielectrics 1 Dielectrics 2 Dielectrics 3	Ch 4.1-4.2 Ch 4.2-4.4	Homework 8	04/14	Homework 8 Solutions
Week 13 04/12-04/16	Dielectrics 4 Current	Ch 4.4 Ch 5.1	Homework 9	04/20	Homework 9 Solutions
Week 14 04/19-04/23	Magnetic Field 1 Magnetic Field 2 Magnetic Field 3 Magnetic Field 4	Ch 5.1-5.2 Ch 5.3-5.4	Homework 10	04/30	Homework 10 Solutions
Week 15 04/26-04/30	Magnetic Field 5 Magnetic Field 6 Magnetic Matter 1	Ch 5.4-6.1 Ch 6.1-6.2
Week 16 05/03-05/07	Magnetic Matter 2 Magnetic Matter 3	Ch 6.2-6.4 Ch. 6.4	Homework 11	05/09	Homework 11 Solutions

Problems class

Date	Problems	Solutions
01/22	Problems #1	Problems #1 Solutions
01/29	Problems #2	Problems #2 Solutions
02/05	Problems #3	Problems #3 Solutions
02/12	Problems #4	Problems #4 Solutions
02/19	Practice Midterm	Practice Midterm Solutions
02/26	Problems #5	Problems #5 Solutions
03/05	Problems #6	Problems #6 Solutions
03/12	Problems #7	Problems #7 Solutions
03/19	Spring break
03/26	Problems #8	Problems #8 Solutions
04/02	Midterm Discussion
04/09	Problems #9	Problems #9 Solutions
04/16	Problems #10	Problems #10 Solutions
04/23	Problems #11	Problems #11 Solutions
04/30	Problems #12	Problems #12 Solutions
05/07	Problems #13	Problems #13 Solutions

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