UIUC Physics 435: Lecture Notes, Handouts, Etc.

Note: These Notes and Handouts were written by Prof. Errede for use in an earlier version of this course. The material may not exactly correspond to the Spring ’10 curriculum. However, the notes will likely still be interesting and useful to you.


Note: All Lecture Notes, Hand-Outs, etc. are in Adobe PDF Format


General Orientational Information, A Brief History of Electromagnetism...


1.     Hopefully Helpful Comments on Taking UIUC Physics 435

2.     A Brief History of Electromagnetism

3.     SI Units of Electromagnetic Quantities

4.     A Brief History of the Development of the SI Units


Electrostatics:


5.     Questions (and Answers) for Lecture Notes 01

6.     Questions (and Answers) for Lecture Notes 02

7.     Questions (and Answers) for Lecture Notes 03

8.     Questions (and Answers) for Lecture Notes 04

9.     Questions (and Answers) for Lecture Notes 05

10. Questions (and Answers) for Lecture Notes 06

11. Questions for Lecture Notes 07

12. Supplemental Handout 1: Vector Spaces, Inner Products, All That...

13. Supplemental Handout 2: Laplace's Equation in Two and Three Dimensions: Nine More Explicit Examples

14. Questions for Lecture Notes 08

15. Miscellaneous Handout: Taylor Series/Binomial Series Expansions

16. Dielectric Constants of Various Materials


Magnetostatics:


17. Four Different Kinds of Magnetism

18. Supplemental Handout 3: Comments on Auxilliary Field Relations for Electrostatics and Magnetostatics

19. Supplemental Handout 4: Summary Sheet of EM Formula for Electrostatics and Magnetostatics


Electrodynamics:


20. New Directions in Eddy Current Sensing - Real-World Uses of Eddy Currents

21. Supplemental Handout: New Directions in Eddy Current Sensing

22. Supplemental Handout 5: The Hall Effect

23. Supplemental Handout 6: Symmetry Properties of Electromagnetic Quantities

24. Elementary Particle EM Moments

25. Supplemental Handout 7: Physics Phun With Motional Effects and The Magnetic Vector Potential, A: E+M Physics in Different Reference Frames


End of Semester Review:


26. Suggested Review for P435 Final Exam


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