PHY 712 Electrodynamics

MWF 10-10:50 AM Olin 103 Webpage: http://www.wfu.edu/~natalie/s25phy712/

Instructor: Natalie Holzwarth Office:300 OPL e-mail:natalie@wfu.edu



Course schedule for Spring 2025

(Preliminary schedule -- subject to frequent adjustment.)
Lecture date
JDJ Reading
Topic
HW
Due date
1 Mon: 01/13/2025 Chap. 1 & Appen. Introduction, units and Poisson equation #1 01/15/2025
2 Wed: 01/15/2025 Chap. 1 Electrostatic energy calculations #2 01/17/2025
3 Fri: 01/17/2025 Chap. 1 Electrostatic energy calculations #3 01/22/2025
Mon: 01/20/2025 No Class Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday
4 Wed: 01/22/2025 Chap. 1 Electrostatic potentials and fields #4 01/24/2025
5 Fri: 01/24/2025 Chap. 1 - 3 Poisson's equation in multiple dimensions #5 01/29/2025




PHY 712 -- Assignment #2

Assigned: 1/15/2025   Due: 1/17/2025

Continue reading Chapter 1 in Jackson.

  1. Jackson Problem #1.5. Be careful to take into account the behavior of Φ(r) for r-->0.








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