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Physics 3320 - Electricity and Magnetism IIFall 2007General Course InformationProf. Eric D. ZimmermanDuane F-435, [email protected]• TA/Grader: Yue Cao ([email protected]).• Class meets in DUAN G2B60, MWF 1:00-1:50.• Problem sets are issued on Monday or Wednesday, and are due on Wednesday of thefollowing week at the beginning of class. The folder will be closed after the lecturebegins.• No late problem sets will be accepted. This is for practical, not punitive reasons; theproblem set solutions will be published on the due date. If you have an emergencyplease let me know, and I will excuse a se t.• I encourage students to work together on problem sets. However, you must generatesolutions by yourself; simple copies of answers will not be accepted. Be warned that ifyou are collaborating too much and not learning on your own, you may find that yourproblem set scores outpace your understanding of the material. This tends to resultin very unpleasant surprises when exams come around.• Grading:– Problem Sets: 33%– Midterm 1: 17%– Midterm 2: 17%– Final: 33%• Exam dates (tentative ): Midterm 1: Tuesday, October 2 evening; Midterm 2:Tuesday, November 6 evening. Please let me know if you have major conflicts withthese dates; if not, they will be finalized in the next two weeks. Final exam will beDecember 17, 1:30−4:00pm.• Class Web Site: http://www.colorado.edu/physics/phys3320. Site will containannouncements, lecture notes, problem sets, and solutions.• Office hours:– Prof. Zimmerman: Duane F-435, Tuesdays 10:00-11:45 AM. Other times byappointment.– Yue Cao: Monday 3-4pm, DUAN C123 (inner office).• Student-led discussion session: Mondays at 5pm, Gamow Tower 11th floor CommonsRoom1. I have booked this room weekly, so that students have a place for discussingthe topics in this course. You should organize the discussion yourselves, and I willshow up for part of the hour to answer questions in an informal recitationenvironment.• Required textbook: M. Heald and J. Marion, Classical Electromagnetic Radiation,3rd edition, Prentice-Hall, 1999.• Other Recommended Books (on reserve in the library):– D. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics, 3rd edition, Prentice-Hall, 1999.This should be extremely familiar from last semester. MKS units.– E. Purcell, Electricity and Magnetism, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, 1985. This ispossibly the best book ever written for learning E&M. It was originally writtenin the 1960s for honors-level freshman courses, but its treatment of the materialis nearly as sophisticated as Griffiths’. I use it as a reference all the time.Gaussian units.– Reitz, Milford, Christy, Foundations of Electromagnetic Theory, many editions(earlier ones by Reitz and Milford only). An alternative textbook at a similarlevel to Griffiths. MKS units– J. D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics, any edition. Higher-level than H&M,and very heavy on the math. This book so universal in first-year graduatecourses that the course is usually just called “Jackson” rather than “E&M”. Ifyou’re going to graduate school, you might as well buy it now and save twoyears’ book price inflation. Gaussian units (except for early chapters of 3rdedition).• Material to be covered: This course will cover, at minimum, H&M Chapters 4 − 9,11, and 14. Selected material in Chapter 10 will be covered as time permits.1. Recap of last semester’s key concepts2. Electrodynamics– Induction– Maxwell’s Equations– Potentials and gauge transformations– Energy and the Poynting vector– Stress tensor and electromagnetic Lagrangian3. Electromagnetic waves and radiation– Plane waves and polarization– Radiation pressure– Waves in conductors and diele ctrics– Waveguides1EXCEPTIONS: On September 17 and November 5, the session will b e held in the 11th floor Reading Roominstead.2– Retarded potentials and fields– Radiation by an accelerated particle– Antennas– Coherence and interference4. Special relativity– Lorentz transformations– Four-vectors– The field tensor– The Lagrangian formulation3Other policies set by the UniversityDisability issues: If you qualify for accommodations because of a disability, please submit to m ea le tter from Disability Services in a timely manner so that your needs may be addressed.Disability Services determines accommodations based on documented disabilities. Contact:303-492-8671, Willard 322, and http://www.colorado.edu/disabilityservices.Religious observances: Campus policy regarding religious observances requires that facultymake every effort to reasonably and fairly deal with all students who, b e cause of religiousobligations, have conflicts with scheduled exams, assignments or required attendance. See fulldetails at http://www.colorado.edu/policies/fac relig.html. Please contact me if you willmiss a lecture or laboratory session due to a religious observance to arrange an appropriateremedy.Classroom behavior: Students and faculty each have responsibility for maintaining anappropriate learning environment. Students who fail to adhere to such behavioral standards maybe subject to discipline. Faculty have the professional responsibility to treat all students withunderstanding, dignity and respect, to guide classroom discussion and to set reasonable limits onthe m anner in which they and their students express opinions. Professional courtesy andsensitivity are especially important with respect to individuals and topics dealing with differencesof race , culture, religion, politics, sexual orientation, gender variance, and nationalities. Classrosters are provided to the instructor with the student’s legal name. I will gladly honor yourrequest to address you by an alternate name or pronoun (unless you wish to be called“Professor”). Please advise me of this preference early in the semester so that I may makeappropriate changes to my records. See polices athttp://www.colorado.edu/policies/classbehavior.html andhttp://www.colorado.edu/studentaffairs/judicialaffairs/code.html#student code.Honor code: All students of the University of Colorado at Boulder are responsible for knowingand adhering to the academic integrity policy of this institution. Violations of this policy mayinclude: cheating, plagiarism, aid of academic dishonesty, fabrication, lying, bribery, andthreatening behavior. All incidents of academic misconduct shall be reported to the Honor CodeCouncil ([email protected]; 303-725-2273). Students


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