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Jean-Francois Van Huele

    

 

Jean-Francois Van Huele

N151 ESC       422-4481

vanhuele@byu.edu

research

PHYSICS   641 

Fall 2008

Mathematical Theory

of

Electricity and Magnetism

Tu/Th.  1:30-2:45 p.m.          C266 ESC

Office Hours: by appointment

Classical Electrodynamics  J.D. Jackson   (Wiley, 3rd ed.)

Course Schedule

 

Jun Song

N377 ESC

fabulous.jun@gmail.com

 

The final grade will be determined as follows:                           Current scores are posted   here

 

Class Participation

 10 %

Class participation means being prepared and active in class. Short quizzes will be given to check prior reading of the text and understanding of the lectures. Weekly assignments of problems from the text lead to homework credit. Two midterms will cover chapters 1-2, and chapters 3-4. The final is scheduled on Tue Dec.16.

Topics

  • Maxwell's equations and the photon
  • Vacuum and macroscopic media
  • Boundary value problems
  • Electrostatics
  • Magnetostatics
  • Dielectrics, magnetic materials
  • Electromagnetism
  • Multipole expansions

Quizzes

 10 %

Homework

 40 %

Midterms

 20 %

Final Exam

 20 %

Total

100 %

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