Welcome to

Physics 603: ElectromagneticTheory I

Fall 2005

 

Instructor: Prof Ethan Vishniac    

Grader: Divya Singh    

ethan at pha.jhu.edu                           

divyas at pha. jhu.edu

Bloomberg 529;  x7269

Bloomberg 346; x6694

Office hours: By appointment;

Monday 10-11am; Thursday 2-3pm

Office hours: By appointment;

Every 2nd Thursdays 2-4 pm, week before HWs are due

 

 

Course Info

 

Official Textbook: Jackson’s Classical Electrodynamics, 3rd Edition

 

Course syllabus: The course will follow Jackson quite closely. The goal is to cover the first 8 chapters in as much detail as time allows.

 

Grading: 40% homeworks and 60%  final exam

 

Note to all graduate students: Remember this is not your undergraduate E&M class, so please allow a generous amount of time for these assignments! The homework is the most "important" part of the class. Doing problems yourself is the only way to seeing your next few years in graduate school! You may collaborate with your classmates on homework assignments, but you may not simply copy their solutions.

 

Late Policy: I reserve the right to give reduced credit for late homeworks.

 

Homework Assignments

Assignment I: Due September 28th.

Assignment II: Due October 12th.

Assignment III: Due November 2nd.

Assignment IV: Due November 16th.

Assignment V: Due December 7th.

The final has come and gone and the grades are in. I have posted the answers to the first and the last questions, because very few people got those even partially right. If you come by my office you can collect your test.

 

Link to Old course webpage. (Has more useful information then you would need!)

 

Hopefully Useful Information !

 

 Math Primer for Gradutate Students (v.1.0) ; Thanks to Andrew Blechman for producing this note!

Separable Coordinates

 

 

 

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