Physics 107A  Fall 2007

Instructor : Douglas Singleton

Office : McLane Hall, J Wing, Room 24

Office Hours : MW 1100-1300 ; Th 1100-1300; Or by appointment

Class Hours : TTh 0930-1045

Class Room : McLane 258

Phone : 278-2523

E-mail : dougs@csufresno.edu

Text - Introduction to Electrodynamics , 3rd Edition, David J. Griffiths

Supplement -Electromagnetic Fields , 2nd Edition, Roald K. Wangness

Mid-Term There will be one in class mid-term given after we finish Sections I-III on the syllabus. The mid-term open book, and will be given at a time outside the normal class time that is agreed on by students and instructor. The mid-term should only take 1 hour 15 minutes, but I will give you up to 3 hours to work on the exam. You can (and should) bring a table of integrals, calculator, and scratch paper. The mid-term is 25% of your grade.

Final Exam A final exam will be given on Thursday, Dec. 20th from 1100 to 1300 in McLane 258 . If there is a desire to move the final exam to a different day and time we can discuss this in class. The final exam should only take 2 hours to complete, but I will give you 4 hours to work on it. The final will cover all the material in the course and count for 35 % of your grade.

Grading Homework will count 45 % of your grade. The mid-term counts 25 %. The final exam counts 30 %. The grades will be given according to the following scale

A = 85 - 100 %

B = 72-84 %

C = 60-71 %

D = 47 - 59 %

F = 0 - 46 %

Attendance You are responsible for all announcements and material given in class, even if it is not in the textbook and even if you are not in class.

Homework The homework problems are the most important part of the course. You should plan to spend a minimum of 12-15 hours per week working out the solutions and writing your homework sets in a NEAT format. If I can't easily read the assignment you may have to re-copy it. 

Cheating and Plagiarism Refer to the University Catalog (Policies and Regulations).

Students with Disabilities Refer to the University Catalog (Policies and Regulations).

Topics

(I) Vector Analysis --- A quick review of Div, Grad and Curl and other elements of vector calculus
(Reading : Chapter 1)

(II) Electrostatics --- Electric charge; electric field; Coulomb's Law ; Gauss's Law ; scalar potential;
work and energy; conductors (Reading : Chapter 2)

(III) Special Mathematical Techniques ---- LaPlace's Equation; Method of Images; Separation of
Varibles; Multipole Expansion (Reading : Chapter 3).

(IV) Electric Fields in Matter ------ Polarization; Electric Displacement; Linear Dielectrics
(Reading : Chapters 4)

(V) Magnetostatics ------- Lorentz Force; Biot-Savart Law;  Magnetic Vector Potential;
Multipole Expansion. (Reading : Chapter 5)

(VI) Magnetic Fields in Matter ------- Magnetization; The H-Field; Linear and Non-linear magnetic materials. (Reading : Chapter 6)

(VII) Electrodynamics ------ Electromagnetic induction ; displacement current ; Maxwell's equations ; electromagnetic energy. (Reading : Chapter 7)