Physics 100B
Winter 2009
SYLLABUS
January 1, 2009
INSTRUCTOR:
C. M. Surko; csurko@ucsd.edu
Office: 4581 Mayer Hall Addition; 534 6880
Office Hour: See below for group office hour/discussion;
otherwise after class, or email/call to arrange.
GRADER
Jui-yu Chiu; jchiu@physics.ucsd.edu
COURSE SCHEDULE:
Lectures:
Group office hour/discussion
Midterms Feb. 2 and Feb. 23
Final Exam, Mar. 20
MWF
Tu
F
10:00 – 10:50 am
3:00 - 4:00 pm
10:00 – 10:50 am
8:00 – 11:00 am
CENTR 222
MHA 5623
CENTR 222
TBA
COURSE WEB PAGE: See the course web page for changes and updates:
http://physics.ucsd.edu/students/courses/winter2009/managed/physics100b/
GRADING: Homework 10%; two midterms, 23% each; final 44%.
COURSE TEXT: Introduction to Electrodynamics, 3rd Edition, by David J. Griffiths. (You’ll
also need access to a table of integrals.) If you’d like to read other treatments of the subject or
for integrals, the following will be on reserve in the Science and Engineering Library.
Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics. Informal, intuitive style but careful.
Reitz, Milford and Christy, Foundation of Electromagnetic Theory. Terse
Pollack and Stump, Electromagnetism. Comparable in level to Griffiths
Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics. Standard graduate text.
Schaum’s Outlines, Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables
HOMEWORK: Homework will be assigned most weeks and graded. Experience has proven
that it is critical for you to do the homework if you expect a passing grade in the course. It is
due at the START of lecture on the dates indicated. You can turn it in at the start of the next
lecture, but will then receive only a small amount of credit for it. Problems marked with a * are
recommended but need not be turned in. You may discuss problems with your peers but the
solutions you turn in must be your own work and written up separately. Cheating on homework
will be prosecuted without exception, vigorously and to the utmost extent possible; so make
sure it is only your work and understanding that you put on paper to turn in.
HOMEWORK, MIDTERM AND FINAL DETAILS:
1. Exams are closed book. Bring a blue book. Formulae will be provided as necessary.
You will be assigned a 3-digit code number. Please enter your code number on the exam
blue books in the upper right-hand corner.
2. Only in very exceptional cases will there be accommodation for a missed midterm. In
such cases, arrangements must be made in advance.
3. The solutions to the exams and recorded grades will be posted on the course web page.
ACADEMIC DISHONESTY: Please read "UCSD Policy on Integrity of Scholarship" in the
General Catalog. As stated above, the rules on academic dishonesty will be strictly enforced.
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Physics 100B
Week
1
Jan 5
Winter 2009
Course Outline and Tentative Schedule
Chapter1
Topics
January 1, 2009
Homework Assignments1, 2
Due Date
Text Ref.1
(approx.)
5
Lorentz force
Biot Savart Law
5.2, 5.5, 5.9, 5.11, 5.12*
Due Wed. Jan. 14
202 - 220
5
Divergence of B
Ampere’s law
5.13, 5.14, 5.15, 5.19
Due Wed. Jan. 21
221-234
3
Jan. 19
(Hol. Jan. 19)
5
Magnetic vector potential
magnetostatic boundary cond.
5.22, 5.23, 5.24, 5.25*, 5.31
Due Wed. Jan. 28.
234-242
4
Jan. 26
5&6
Multipole expansion of A
Magnetic fields in matter
5.33, 5.35, 6.7, 6.8, 6.10
Due. Wed. Feb. 4
242-246;
255-268
5
Feb. 2
6
H field, magnetic materials
[Midterm Mon., Feb. 2]
6.12, 6.16*, 6.17, 6.18, 6.23 (a, b only)
Due Wednesday Feb. 11
269-282
6
Feb. 9
7
Electrodynamics
Ohm’s law, EMF
7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.7, 7.8
Due Wednesday, Feb. 18
285-298
7
Feb. 16
(Hol. Feb. 16)
7
Faraday’s law
Induced fields
7.12, 7.15, 7.17, 7.18
Due Wednesday, Feb. 25
301-309
8
Feb. 23
7
Inductance; magnetic energy
[Midterm Mon., Feb. 23]
7.20, 7.26 (a, b, c), 7.27, 7.29*, 7.30
Due Wednesday, Mar. 4
310-320
9
Mar. 2
7
Maxwell’s equations
in vacuum & matter
7.31, 7.58, 8.4, 8.7, 8.9
Due Friday, Mar. 13
2
Jan. 12
10
Mar. 9
8
Conservation laws
& review
321-333
345-361
1. Introduction to Electrodynamics, 3rd Edition, by David J. Griffiths.
2. Due to limited resources, not all problems will be graded. Homework scores will be prorated
to account for this.
* You are encouraged to do these (*) problems and check your answers with the posted
solutions, but they will not be graded.
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