| Class: | Monday, Wednesday & Friday 13:30-14:30, Hebb 10 |
| Tutorial: | Thursday 8:30-9:30, Hennings 304 |
| Professor: | Janis McKenna |
| Office: | Hennings-Physics 260 (Mezzanine) |
| Phone: | 822-4337 |
| E-mail: | janis@physics.ubc.ca Email from undergrad students usually gets answered evenings between midnite and 1. |
| Office Hours: | Mondays, 3:00-4:00, Wednesdays 4:00-5:00 or by special appointment. |
| Text: | Introduction to Electrodynamics, by D. Griffiths |
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Outline of topics covered in the course:
You will find we will cover all the material in Griffiths, Chapters 1-7.
Then we cover Chapter 8, sections 1 & 2 only, and Chapter 10 section 3 only.
PHYS 401 - offered in the winter term - covers the rest of Griffiths: the material in Chapters 8-10
| Tutorials: | For the first four weeks tutorials will be almost lecture style, but I'm willing to take interrupts of any kind from you and consider any homework problems. We'll review vector analysis and vector calculus, Dirac Delta functions, curvilinear coordinates, techniques for solving differential equations (Laplaces' equation, specificly) and applications in E&M. Then we'll do worked examples, review of mathematical techniques, homework problems, midterm exam problems, and any concepts/ problems you want to discuss. |
| Grading: | 50% Final Exam |
| 20% Assignments (10 will be assigned over the term) | |
| 15% Midterm Exam 1 -- Friday October 13 | |
| 15% Midterm Exam 2 -- Friday November 17 |
There is no tolerance for late assignments without medical or
tragic reason, as solutions will be posted the day after due date.
This will be updated lecture by lecture as term proceeds. You should be able to look up each lecture the day preceeding it.
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email me at janis@physics.ubc.ca