Physics 107B      Spring 2007

Instructor : Doug Singleton

Office : McLane Hall, J Wing, Room 24

Office Hours : MW 1700-1800, MW 1100-1200, Th 1500-1700

Class Hours : MW 1530-1645

Class Room : McLane 258

Phone : 278-2523

E-mail : dougs@csufresno.edu

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

Midterm Exam There will be one mid-term exam given roughly when we finish Section III or IV. It will count 25% of the grade.

Final Exam A final exam will be given on Wednesday, May 16 from 1745 to 1945 in McLane 258 . It will cover all the material in the course and count for 25 % of your grade.

Project You will do a semester long project one some E&M topic. I will give you some topic options at the beginning of the semester. We will discuss the details of the project in class, but it will be some "real world" project that will require both theoretical and experimental investigation. The project will be summarized by a 5-10 page report. The project will count for 10% to 20% of your grade.

Grading Homework will count 30 to 40 % of your grade. The mid-term exam counts 25 %. The final exam counts 25 %. 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.

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. 

Topics

(I) Electrodynamics and Maxwell's Equations ------- Chapter 7 Faraday's Law; Magnetic Energy; Displacement Current; Maxwell's Equations ; Magnetic Charges

(II) Conservation Laws ------- Chapter 8 Continuity Equation; Ponyting's Theorem; E&M field momentum and angular momentum

(III) Electromagnetic Waves --- Chapter 9 Wave Equation; E&M waves in vacuum and in matter;  Polarization; Reflection and Refraction of plane E&M waves (Law of Reflection and Law of Refraction)

(IV) Dynamics Potentials and Field ------- Chapter  10 Scalar and Vector potentials for time varying sources ;Retarded potentials

(V) Radiation ------- Chapter 11  Electric Dipole Radiation ; Magnetic Dipole Radiation ; Radiated Power ; Radiation Reaction

(VI) Special Relativity ------- Chapter 12 Historical context ; Lorentz transformation ; Structure of spacetime; 4-vectors and tensors; Relativistic Mechanics ; Relativistic Electrodynamics

(Extra) Physics of Plasmas --------- Handout Notes (As time permits) Definition of a Plasma ; Particle Orbits ; Hydromagnetic Equations ; Plasma Oscillations