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Quick Schedule:
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·  Week 1
  • Forces on Moving Charges
    • Read: 5.8 - 5.9 & Appendix A
  • Magnetic Field
    • Read: 6.1 -6.2 (F:13)
  • HW #1
    • HW #1 Due: 5.1, 5.8, 5.9,
      5.14, 5.16, 5.17. (5.18)

·  Week 2
  • Vector Potential
    • Read: 6.3 - 6.4 (F:14)
  • Magnetostatics
    • Read: 6.5 - 6.6 (F:15)
  • HW #2
    • 6.1, 6.8, 6.10,
      6.12, 6.13, 6.14, 6.16
  • Pick Up Quiz #1

·  Week 3
  • Fields In Motion, 4-Current
    • Read: 6.7 - 6.9 (F:25, 26)
  • Faraday's Law
    • Read: 7.1 - 7.3
  • Quiz #1 Due
  • HW #3
    • 6.4, 6.20, 6.21, 6.25,
      6.27, 6.32, 6.33, (6.22)

·  Week 4
  • Induction
    • Read: 7.4 - 7.5 (F:16)
  • Inductance
    • Read: 7.6 - 7.10 (F:17)
  • HW #4
    • 7.1, 7.3, 7.4, 7.7,
      7.9, 7.14, 7.22,
      (6.11, 6.35)
  • Pick up Quiz #2

·  Week 5
  • AC Circuits
    • Read: 8.1 - 8.2
  • Complex Impedance
    • Read: 8.3 - 8.5 (F:22)
  • Quiz #2 Due
  • HW #5
    • 7.17, 7.19, 8.4,
      8.5, (7.27, 7.31)

·  Week 6
  • Applications of Faraday's Law
  • Maxwell's Equations
    • Read: 9.1-9.3 (F:18)
  • HW #6
    • 8.7, 8.10, 8.11,
      8.13, 8.14, 8.16
  • Pick Up Quiz #3

·  Week 7
  • Electromagnetic Waves
    • Read: 9.4-9.7 (F:20,23)
  • Electric Dipoles
    • Read: 10.1-10.6
  • Quiz #3 Due
  • HW #7
    • 9.1, 9.5, 9.10,
      9.12

·  Week 8
  • Dielectrics
    • Read: 10.7-10.9 (F:11)
  • Electric Fields in Matter
    • Read: 10.10-10.15
  • HW #8
    • 10.2, 10.3, 10.6, 10.9,
      10.14, 10.15, 10.19,
      (9.9), (10.16)
  • Pick Up Quiz #4

·  Week 9
  • Magnetic Dipoles
    • Read: 11.1-11.4 (F:34)
  • Magnetic Materials
    • 11.5-11.8
  • Quiz #4 Due
  • HW #9
    • 10.13, 10.24

·  Week 10
  • Ferromagnetism
    • Read: 11.9-11.11 (F:36)
  • Superconductivity
    • Read: Appendix C
  • HW #10
    • 11.4, 11.6,11.8, 11.12, 11.17, 11.25
  • Pick Up Final Exam

"F" = Feynman Vol. II *Homework problems indicated in ( ) are optional

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