PHYSICS 441 - Spring 2009

            ELECTRO-MAGNETOSTATICS

· READING ASSIGNMENT:        Work out ALL the Examples in Chapters 1- 6

· MIDTERM EXAM:         

· Friday May 22

·             Testing Center

·             Open book and notebooks

·             Time limit: 4 hours

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·  GUIDE FOR THE TEST:

· - Math. Review

· - Coulomb's law. Calculation of electric field given a charge distribution

·             - Field lines, Gauss's law and electric flux

·             - Work and energy in electrostatics

·             - Surface charge, electrostatic boundary conditions, and capacitance

·             - Properties of conductors

· - Laplace’s equation in 2-d