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This document provides information for Physics 30471: Electricity & Magnetism including: - Class times on Tuesday and Thursday from 12:30-1:45 in DeBartolo Room 119 taught by Prof. S. Frauendorf. - Homework is due weekly on Tuesdays by 4:00 PM and will be graded with a late penalty. Exams include a midterm worth 30% and a final worth 40%. - The course will cover vector analysis, electrostatics, electric fields in matter, magnetostatics, magnetic fields in matter, and electrodynamics using Griffiths' textbook.

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This document provides information for Physics 30471: Electricity & Magnetism including: - Class times on Tuesday and Thursday from 12:30-1:45 in DeBartolo Room 119 taught by Prof. S. Frauendorf. - Homework is due weekly on Tuesdays by 4:00 PM and will be graded with a late penalty. Exams include a midterm worth 30% and a final worth 40%. - The course will cover vector analysis, electrostatics, electric fields in matter, magnetostatics, magnetic fields in matter, and electrodynamics using Griffiths' textbook.

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PYSICS 30471

Electricity & Magnetism

Tuesday and Thursday 12:30-1:45


At DeBartolo, Room 119
By Prof. S. Frauendorf
125 NSH 1-3875 [email protected]
Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday 10:30-11:30

Homework:
Every week, due on Tuesdays by 16:00.
Will be provided as MS doc file in the 30471 course space.
Late homework policy: Turned in
within the week of the deadline: 75%
within the following week: 50%
later: 0%
Graded HW back after 2 weeks.
Grade
Midterm Exam 30%
Final Exam 40%
Homework 30%

Grades available on WebCT


Teaching assistant: Sun Jie(Jason) , room 120 tel.:1-4743
[email protected]
Style
Combination of
Powerpoint slides
containing the most important results
available in the course space phys30471.01
I:\coursefa.06\phys\phys30471.01
and handwritten notes
derivations, explanations, …
Syllabus
Text: Introduction to Electrodynamics,
David J. Griffiths, (3rd ed. 1999 ), Chapters 1-7

1. Vector Analysis
2. Electrostatics
3. Special Techniques
4. Electric Fields in Matter
5. Magnetostatics
6. Magnetic Fields in Matter
7. Electrodynamics
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What is electrodynamics,
and how does it fit into the
general scheme of physics?
Natural phenomena are governed by the electromagnetic interaction.
It governs our man-made world as well.
It keeps the molecules together.
Even where you do not expect it, the electromagnetic interaction is at work
Mechanics tells us the reaction
of a body to a force.

Forces are given.


Electromagnetism is the theory
two types of forces:
Electric force
Magnetic force
Classical Mechanics small Quantum Mechanics
Newton Bohr, Heisenberg,
Schrödinger, …

fast

Special Relativity Quantum Field Theory


Einstein Dirac, Pauli, Feynman,
Schwinger, ….
Electric Charge (q, Q)
1. Charge exists as +q and –q. At the same point: +q-q=0
2. Charge is conserved (locally).
3. Charge is quantized. +q =n (+e), -q = m (-e), m, n, integer

electron: –e, positron: +e, proton: +e, C-nucleus: 6(+e)


Charge conservation in the micro world:
p + e -> n (electron capture)

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Macro world: q ~10 e
Quantization is unimportant. Imagine charge as some kind of jelly.
The Field Formulation

E
q q
F

q Light wave
v=c
Four kinds of forces - interactions

1. Strong Keeps nuclei and nucleons together.


2. Electromagnetic Most common phenomena.
3. Weak β-decay n->p+e+ν
4. Gravitational Keeps the Universe together.

Unification

electric + magnetic electromagnetic

electromagnetic + optic electrodynamic

electrodynamic + weak electroweak


In Quantum Field theory the
difference between particles
and forces becomes rather
diffuse.
Two types of quantum particles:
Fermions and Bosons.
SI-Units
Systeme Internationale
Mechanics Electromagnetism
length: meter (m) current: ampere (A)
mass: kilogram (kg) charge: coulomb (C = As)
time: second (s) voltage: volt (V )
force: newton ( N  kg m s 2 )
work: joule (J = N m) work: (W s = V A s)
Power: watt (W = J/s) power: watt (W = V A)

The equations of EM contain


2
As Vs 1 1 9 Nm 9 Vm
 0  8.859  10 12
, 0  4  107  ,  9  10  9  10
Vm Am  0c 2
4 0 C2 As

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