| Day | Topics | Reading | Due |
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Monday Sep 30 |
Introduction to Paradigms | ||
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Tuesday Oct 1 |
PretestSuperposition with point chargesPotential of a point charge SWBQ activity Small group quadrupole activity |
GEM 2.3.1 | |
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Wednesday Oct 2 |
Distance between two pointsCharges away from the originDot products |
GEM 1.1 | Homework 1 due |
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Thursday Oct 3 |
Power seriesApproximations using power series | ||
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Friday Oct 4 |
Superposition of discrete sourcesCharge away from origin lecture Two point charges | Homework 2 due | |
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Monday Oct 7 |
Two point charges, continued | ||
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Tuesday Oct 8 |
Curvilinear coordinatesIntegrating charge densitiesActing out charge densities activity Surface and volume elements activity Surface and volume elements in curvilinear coordinates activity Total charge |
GEM 1.4 GEM 1.3 | |
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Wednesday Oct 9 |
Superposition of continuous sources | Homework 3 due | |
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Thursday Oct 10 |
The ring | ||
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Friday Oct 11 |
Charges that extend to infinityVector fields | Homework 4 due | |
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Monday Oct 14 |
Quantifying changeIntroduction to gradients lecture |
GEM 1.2 | |
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Tuesday Oct 15 |
Electric and gravitational fields |
GEM 2.1 | |
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Wednesday Oct 16 |
Fields of continuous distributions |
GEM 2.1.4 | Homework 5 due |
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Thursday Oct 17 |
Electrostatic energy |
GEM 2.4 | |
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Friday Oct 18 |
Review | Homework 6 due |