Symmetries & Idealizations

Fall 2008

First Day Handout

Daily Notices

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Day	Topic: Subtopic	Reading (Main, Alternate, Deep)	Due Dates
1 Mon 9/29	Paradigms/Course Intro Intro Potentials for E & g Coulomb's Law Fields Superposition	GEM ix-xv GEM 2.3.2	HW 0
2 Tue 9/30	Zero of potential Dot Products Introduction to Maple Getting started with Maple More Maple Small Group Activities Roles Visualizing Potentials Equipotential surfaces Exploiting technology	RHB 7.6 GEM 1.1.1-1.1.2
3 Wed 10/1	Charges away from the origin Position Vector	RHB 7.2 GEM 1.1.4	HW 1 Solutions
4 Thu 10/2	Power Series Definition Coefficients Power Series Theorems Approximations using power series Adding up terms Exploiting symmetry	RHB 4.5 Boas 1 RHB 4.6 Important series
5 Fri 10/3	Superposition of Discrete Sources Dipoles Near and far limits Writing Guiding Questions		HW 2 Solutions
6 Mon 10/6	Curvilinear coordinates Definitions Vector differential	RHB 10.9, GEM 1.1.4, 1.4 RHB 10.10 GEM 1.4
7 Tue 10/7	Densities Line, surface, and volume densities Cross & Triple Products Total Charge Line, surface, and volume integrals	GEM 2.1.4 RHB 7.6 GEM 1.1.1-1.1.3 RHB 11, GEM 1.3.1 Boas 6.8
8 Wed 10/8	Superposition of Continuous Sources Finite LIne Green functions		HW 3 Solutions
9 Thu 10/9	Superposition of Continuous Sources Continuous charge distributions The ring The Ring Limits near and far	RHB 11.1, 11.5-11.6, GEM 2.3.4, MT 5.1-5.2
10 Fri 10/10	Charges that extend to infinity Infinite Line		HW 4 Solutions
11 Mon 10/13	Quantifying Change Partial derivatives Gradients	RHB 5.1-5.2 Boas 6.6 RHB 10.7, GEM 1.1.1-1.1.2 Boas 6.7 Schey IV
12 Tue 10/14	E & g Fields From gradients E & g Fields	TM 5.3 GEM 2.1, MT 5.4
13 Wed 10/15	Energy VEUF square	GEM 2.4	HW 5 Solutions
14 Thu 10/16	E & g Fields E Ring
15 Fri 10/17	Review		HW 6 Solutions
16 Mon 10/20	Final (7 pm)

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