Syllabus
The syllabus ,contains information an outline syllabus and recommended texts
Lecture notes, tutorials, handouts, etc are available in two formats:
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previewer to see them onscreen.
They should be printable on any PostScript printer.
The PostScript versions should be identical to the
printed lecture notes.
Lecture Notes
Any errors in the lecture notes (should!) have been corrected in these
online versions. If you find errors please let me know. The notes do not contain figures.
N.B. 2013/14
This year the Electromagnetism Course is a full year 20 point course.
The first semester (Foundations) will follow closely the previous course
which students coped well with last year.
The second semester to be lectured by Dr R. J. Cole will follow in from the S1 course and develop further electromagnetic waves and physical optics.
I will distribute written notes (updated and corrected from last year's version). They will be available here electronically or from me in
hard copy, after the lecture has taken place. Students are encouraged
to take notes in the lectures as the structure of the lectures may be
more informal and a little different from the notes.
The first week's lectures cover material introduced in second year in
Dynamics and Vector Calculus and Physics 2B and it is important to revise this material as it is integral to the study of electromagnetism
Therefore the Tutorial Workshops
begin in Week 1
Lecture Notes
Section 1:
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Revision of Vector Calculus
Section 2:
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Revision of Electrostatics
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Gauss' Law
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Poisson's Equation
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Electric Dipoles
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Electrostatic Energy and Capacitors
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Magnetic Force, Current and Biot-Savart Law
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Divergence and Curl of B; Gauss and Ampere's Laws
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Applications of Ampere's Law; Magnetic Vector Potential
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Electromotive Force; Faraday's Law
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Inductance
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The Displacement Current
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Description of Electromagnetic Waves
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Electromagnetic Energy and the Poynting Vector
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Dielectric Media
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Magnetic Media
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Summary of EM in media; Boundary conditions on fields
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Examples of continuity conditions; Waves in Media
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Waves in Conductors; Skin Effect
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Reflection at boundaries: normal incidence
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Reflection at boundaries: oblique incidence; Brewster's angle
Box Set of Lectures
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Tutorial Sheets
Tutorial 1:
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Revision
Tutorial 2:
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Electrostatics: Electric Field; Electric Potential; Gauss' Law
Tutorial 3:
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More Electrostatics: Images; Dipoles
Tutorial 4:
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Electrostatic Energy; Biot-Savart Law
Tutorial 5:
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More Magnetostatics: Ampere's Law; Magnetic Vector Potential
Tutorial 6:
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Induction
Tutorial 7:
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Electromagnetic Waves in Vacuo; Poynting Vector
Tutorial 8:
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Electric Diplacement Field; Radiation Pressure
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Magnetic field H ; Boundary conditions at interfaces
Tutorial 10:
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Waves in Media
Feedback on Hand-ins
Other interesting stuff
Here's a nice app written by one of last year's students which illustrates how the method of images works
Here's some great MIT video lectures on Electromagnetism
which cover some of our topics at an introductory level
MIT videos