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Lecture Notes

The lecture notes were prepared in LaTeX by James Silva, an MIT student, based upon handwritten notes.


WEEK #SES #TOPICS


Week 1


Introduction, electric field

1Intro: Electrostatics (PDF)
2Electrostatics problem solving (PDF)


Week 2


Mathematical background

3Vector review (PDF)
4Divergence, gradient, curl (PDF)
5Integral calculus, Dirac delta function (PDF)
6Dirac delta function, curvilinear coordinates (PDF)


Week 3


Gauss's law and electric potential

7More curvilinear coordinates: Div and grad in spherical coordinates; Gauss's law (PDF)
8Applications of Gauss's law: Field lines, point charge, Gaussian surfaces (PDF)
9Applications of Gauss's law: Line charge, plane charge (PDF)
10Electric potential; Poisson's equation; Laplace's equation (PDF)


Week 4


Work and energy in electrostatics; conductors and capacitors

11Electrostatic boundary conditions; conductors (PDF)
12Capacitors, dielectrics, work (PDF)
13Capacitors, work, first and second uniqueness theorems (PDF)


Week 5


The method of images and multipole expansion

14Method of images (PDF)
15Parallel plate capacitor, electric dipole (PDF)
16Separation of variables (PDF)


Week 6


Exam 1

17Review for exam 1
18Exam 1


Week 7


Magnetostatics and special relativity

19Dielectrics (PDF)
20Magnetostatics, electric currents (PDF)
21Special relativity (PDF)
22Special relativity (cont.) (PDF)


Week 8


Magnetic fields

23Electric fields and force (PDF)
24Magnetic fields; Lorenz force law (PDF)
25Cycloidal motion; Biot-Savart law (PDF)
26Biot-Savart law (cont.); Ampere's law (PDF)


Week 9


Magnetic fields; Maxwell's laws; magnetic properties of materials

27Maxwell's equations (PDF)
28Induction (PDF)
29Magnetic boundary conditions; magnetic dipole (PDF)
30Magnetization; magnetic properties of materials (PDF)


Week 10


Exam 2; magnetized materials

31Review for exam 2 (PDF)
32Exam 2
33Ampere's law in magnetized materials (PDF)
34Bound current; ferromagnetism (PDF)


Week 11


Circuits

35Circuits (PDF)
36Circuits; undriven RC circuits; Thevenin's theorem (PDF)
37Thevenin's theorem (cont.); Ohm's law; Faraday's law; Lenz's law (PDF)
38Alternating current circuits (PDF)


Week 12


Circuits (cont.)

39Inductance (PDF)
40Undriven RLC circuits (PDF)
41Driven RLC circuits; Ladder impedance (PDF)


Week 13


Maxwell; momentum

42Maxwell's equations (PDF)
43Poynting vector; Maxwell stress tensor (PDF)
44Conservation of momentum; Minkowski force (PDF)
45Review for exam 3 (PDF)


Week 14


Electromagnetic waves

46Exam 3
47Electromagnetic waves (PDF)
48Electromagnetic waves (cont.) (PDF)
49Topics for next week; relativity (PDF)


Week 15


Advanced topics in relativity; quantum

50Faraday tensor; Maxwell; General relativity (PDF)
51Quantum (PDF)
52Schrodinger equation (PDF)

 








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