Spring 22 Physics 272 – Honors Physics II

01:750:272 Honors Physics II is a 3-credit course that is the second of the three-semester Honors Physics sequence, providing an introduction to Electricity and Magnetism. The course will emphasize conceptual and physical understanding, as well as problem-solving. The course will use multivariable calculus but will not assume mastery of it and provide necessary mathematical interludes. The course will involve two 80 minute lectures a week.

Exams and Grading

There will be weekly homework assignments (due on the Thursday class) that will count to 25% of the grade. There will be two 1 hour mid-semester exams (20% of the grade) and a final exam (35% of the grade)

 

1. Electrostatics: Coulomb’s law, superposition, the energy of a system of charges
2. Electric field, electric flux, Gauss’s law
3. More on Gauss’ law, Energy in the field, electric potential
4. Poisson and Laplace equations, curl, uniqueness theorems
5. Fields and potentials around conductors
6. Capacitance
7. Currents, Continuity equation, Resistance, Ohm’s law
8. Introduction to circuits, Kirchhoff’s rules, Thenevin equivalents
9. Symmetry and superposition in circuit analysis
10. Magnetic force, Magnetic field
11. Ampere’s Law, Biot-Savart Law
12. Vector potential
13. Electromagnetic induction, Faraday’s Law, Lenz’s law
14. Mutual and self-inductance, Magnetic field energy
15. Variable currents, RC circuits, RL circuits, undriven RLC circuits, Phasors
16. Driven AC circuits, phasors, impedance, power, and energy
17. Displacement current, Maxwell’s equations
18. Wave equation, electromagnetic radiation
19. Electromagnetic radiation continued, polarization, Poynting vector, energy, power, and momentum of radiation
20. Storing EM fields – Microwave cavities
21. Electric fields in Matter

Lecture	Dates	Topic	Notes	Purcell Reading	Module
1	Jan. 20	Introduction to E&M,  Electric Charge, Coulomb’s law, Superposition principle	Lec1_notes.pdf	1.1 – 1.5	Lec1 Module
2	Jan. 24	Electrostatic Energy, Electric Field, Electric Dipoles	Lec2_Notes.pdf	1.5 – 1.9	Lec2 Module
3	Jan. 27	Electric Flux, Gauss’ law, Symmetry Arguments, Energy in the field	Lec3_notes.pdf	1.9 – 1.16	Lec3 Module
4	Jan. 31	Electric potential, Dipoles, Fields from Potentials	Lec4_notes.pdf	2.1 – 2.8	Lec4 Module
5	Feb. 3	Van De Graaff Generators, Potential and fields from Electric dipoles, Divergence, Differential form of Gauss’s law	Lec5_notes.pdf	2.9 – 2.13	Lec5 Module
6	Feb. 7	Poisson’s Equation, Laplace’s equation, Earnshaw’s theorem,  Curl, Stokes theorem	Lec6_Notes.pdf	2.14 – 3.3	Lec6 Module
7	Feb. 10	Fields around conductors, Uniqueness theorem, Method of Images	Lec7_notes.pdf	3.3 – 3.5	Lec7 Module
8	Feb. 14	Capacitance, Energy stored in a capacitor, Capacitance of multiple conductors	Lec8_notes.pdf	3.5 – 3.9	Lec8 Module
9	Feb. 17	Electrostatics review, Electric Currents, Ohm’s Law, Physics of Conduction	Lec9_notes.pdf	4.1 – 4.6, 4.8	Lec9 Module
10	Feb. 21	Electrical Circuits, Kirchoff’s Laws, Batteries, RC circuits		4.7, 4.9-4.12
11	Feb. 24	Magnetism, Magnetic force, Magnetic field
12	Feb. 28	Ampere’s Law, Biot-Savart Law
13	Mar. 3	FIRST MIDTERM
14	Mar. 7	Vector potential, Aharanov-Bohm phases
15	Mar. 10	Electromagnetic induction, Faraday’s Law, Lenz’s law
16	Mar. 21	Inductors, More on Electromagnetic induction, Motors, Dynamos
17	Mar. 24	Mutual and self-inductance, Magnetic field energy
18	Mar. 28	Variable currents, RC circuits, RL circuits, undriven RLC circuits, Phasors
19	Mar. 31	Driven AC circuits, phasors, impedance, power, and energy
20	Apr. 4	SECOND MIDTERM
21	Apr. 7	Displacement current, Maxwell’s equations 1
22	Apr. 11	Maxwell’s equations, Lorentz Transformations, Special Relativity
23	Apr. 14	Electromagnetic waves, Polarization, Poynting vector
24	Apr. 18	EM waves and boundaries, Microwave and optical cavities
25	Apr. 21	Electric fields in matter 1
26	Apr. 25	Electric fields in matter 2
27	Apr. 28	Review, Recap, Fun lecture

 

 

#	Due date	Problems	Points	Solutions
1	Friday, Feb 4, 5 pm	Phys272_HW1.pdf	50	Assignment 1 Solution.pdf
2	Monday, Feb 14, 5:00 pm	Phys272_HW2.pdf	50

 

 

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