Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 11:00-11:50, on Zoom at https://unm.zoom.us/j/628449537.
Textbook for the class
Introduction
to Electrodynamics (4th Edition) by D.
Griffiths. Older editions of the book are likely fine
as well. The course will roughly cover Chapters 1-6.
Additional resources
Berkley
Physics Course on "Electricity and Magnetism" by
E. Purcell and D. Morin.
Foundations
of Electromagnetic Theory by J. R. Reitz, F. J.
Mildford and R. W. Christy.
Instructor
Tuesday 11:00am-12:30pm and Thursday 3:00-5:00pm on Zoom at https://unm.zoom.us/j/324973003.
These are my preferred "office" hours. If you
can't make my regular office hours, or if your
questions cannot wait, please send me an email to set
up an appointment.
Teaching assistant
The teaching assistant is Mr. Bisweswar Patra (bpatra@unm.edu).
He will be available on Mondays 9-10:30am in office
1514 for you to drop in and discuss any homework
grading issues you may have. If you need to schedule
an appointment outside of the TA's office hours
please send him an email.
The grading in the course will be based on your performance in homework assignments, two midterm exams, and a final exam. The contribution to the final grade is as follows:
The midterm exams are tentatively scheduled for
February 19 and April 1 during
(extended) class time, and the final exam will be held
on Monday May 11 1-4 pm..
There will be 11 assignments during the semester.
The assignments will be posted in the tentative schedule
about 7-10 days before they are due. The login
information necessary to access the homework PDFs
will be provided in the first class. The homework must be submitted on
the UNM Learn
platform at 5pm on the day they are due.
Late homework policy: homework returned in the next
24 hours after the due date will be accepted but
with 10% penalization. After these 24 hours the corresponding
solutions will be posted here.
While I strongly
encourage you to discuss the homework
assignments with your classmates, the work you
hand in must be entirely yours.
Listed officially as PHYC 415 (Wednesdays: 12:00 -
12:50 pm, on Zoom at https://unm.zoom.us/j/628449537).
This is a very important adjunct to the
main lecture class. It will provide you additional
practice with solving problems beyond the homework
assignments and self study. We will also cover some
examples of numerical approaches to solve problems
in electrostatics and magnetostatics. Furthermore,
the class will also give you a valuable opportunity
to bring to my attention your difficulties with any
concepts covered in the lecture class so I can
address them in a group setting. The problem sheets
would be posted here
the Monday before the problem class. The
corresponding solutions will be posted after the
class. You will receive credit for the problems
class as long as you register and show up for more
than 10 sessions.
You can find the calendar for the course in the tentative schedule.
| Date | Problems | Solutions |
| 01/22 |
Problems 1 |
Problems 1
Solutions |
| 01/29 |
Problems 2 |
Problems 2
Solutions |
| 02/05 |
Problems 3 |
Problems 3
Solutions |
| 02/12 |
Problems 4 |
Problems 4
Solutions |
| 02/19 | Midterm #1 |
|
| 02/26 |
Problems 5 |
Problems 5 Solutions |
| 03/04 |
Problems 6 |
Problems 6
Solutions |
| 03/11 |
Problems 7 |
Problems 7
Solutions |
| 03/18 |
Spring break |
|
| 03/25 |
Problems 8 |
Problems 8
Solutions |
| 04/01 |
Midterm #2 |
|
| 04/08 |
Problems 9 |
Problems 9
Solutions |
| 04/15 |
Problems 10 |
Problems 10
Solutions |
| 04/22 | Problems
11 |
Problems
11 Solutions |
| 04/29 | Problems 12 |
Problems
12 Solutions |
| 05/06 |
Problems
13 |
Problems
13 Solutions |
