Some of the Course Note files contain figures with associated animations or interactive simulations that can be found on the Visualizations page. A table correlating the figures to the animations can be found here (PDF).
Course readings.
| WEEK # |
SES # |
TOPICS |
SUMMARIES |
COURSE NOTES |
| 1 |
1 |
Introduction to TEAL; Fields; Review of gravity; Electric field |
(PDF) |
Chapter 1: Sections 1.1-1.6; 1.8 (PDF)
Chapter 2 (PDF)
|
| 2 |
Electric charge; Electric fields; Dipoles; Continuous charge distributions |
(PDF) |
Chapter 1: Section 1.6 (PDF)
Chapter 2 (PDF)
|
| 3 |
Coordinate systems; Gradients; Line and surface integrals |
(PDF) |
|
| 2 |
4 |
Working in groups, electric potential, E from V |
(PDF) |
Chapter 3: Sections 3.1-3.5 (PDF) |
| 5 |
Electric potential, equipotentials |
(PDF) |
Chapter 4 (PDF) |
| 6 |
Continuous charge distributions |
(PDF) |
|
| 3 |
7 |
Gauss's law |
(PDF) |
Chapter 4: Sections 4.3-4.4 (PDF)
Chapter 5 (PDF - 1.3 MB)
|
| 8 |
Gauss's law (cont.) |
(PDF) |
Chapter 4: Sections 4.3-4.4 (PDF)
Chapter 5 (PDF - 1.3 MB)
|
| 4 |
9 |
Conductors and capacitors |
(PDF) |
Chapter 4 (PDF) |
| 10 |
Capacitors |
(PDF) |
Chapter 6 (PDF)
Chapter 7: Sections 7.1 through 7.4 (PDF)
|
| 11 |
Capacitors (cont.) |
(PDF) |
Chapter 5 (PDF - 1.3 MB) |
| 5 |
12 |
Current, Resistance, and DC circuits |
(PDF) |
Chapter 7 (PDF) |
| 13 |
Exam 1 information |
(PDF) |
|
| 6 |
14 |
Magnetic fields: Creating magnetic fields - Biot-Savart |
(PDF) |
Chapter 8 (PDF) |
| 15 |
Magnetic fields: Creating magnetic fields - Ampere's Law |
(PDF) |
Chapter 9: Sections 9.1-9.2 (PDF - 1.9 MB) |
| 16 |
Ampere's law |
(PDF) |
Chapter 8: Sections 8.3-8.4 (PDF)
Chapter 9: Sections 9.1-9.2 (PDF - 1.9 MB)
|
| 7 |
17 |
Magnetic fields: Feeling magnetic fields - charges and dipoles |
(PDF) |
Chapter 8: Section 8.4 (PDF)
Chapter 9: Sections 9.1-9.2 and 9.5 (PDF - 1.9 MB)
|
| 18 |
Magnetic levitation; Magnetic forces on dipoles |
(PDF) |
Chapter 9 (PDF - 1.9 MB) |
| 19 |
Magnetic fields: Force and torque on a current loop |
(PDF) |
Chapter 9: Sections 9.3-9.4, 9.10.2, 9.11.6, and 9.11.7 (PDF - 1.9 MB) |
| 8 |
20 |
Faraday's law |
(PDF) |
Chapter 10 (PDF) |
| 21 |
Faraday's law (cont.) |
(PDF) |
Chapter 10 (PDF)
Chapter 11: Section 11.1 (PDF - 1.0 MB)
|
| 22 |
Mutual inductance and transformers; Inductors |
(PDF) |
Chapter 10 (PDF) |
| 9 |
23 |
Inductors and magnetic energy; RL circuits |
(PDF) |
|
| 24 |
Exam 2 information |
(PDF) |
Chapter 11: Sections 11.1-11.4 (PDF - 1.0 MB) |
| 10 |
25 |
RC and RL circuits |
(PDF) |
Chapter 11: Sections 11.5-11.6 (PDF - 1.0 MB) |
| 26 |
RC and RL circuits (cont.) |
(PDF) |
Chapter 12 (PDF) |
| 11 |
27 |
LC, and undriven LRC circuits |
(PDF) |
Chapter 12 (PDF) |
| 28 |
Driven LRC circuits |
(PDF) |
Chapter 13 (PDF) |
| 29 |
Driven LRC circuits (cont.) |
(PDF) |
Chapter 13 (PDF) |
| 12 |
30 |
Maxwell's equations, EM radiation and energy flow |
(PDF) |
Chapter 13 (PDF) |
| 31 |
Maxwell's equations, EM radiation and energy flow (cont.) |
(PDF) |
|
| 32 |
EM radiation |
(PDF) |
|
| 13 |
33 |
Generating EM radiation |
(PDF) |
Chapter 13 (PDF) |
| 34 |
Exam 3 information |
(PDF) |
Chapter 14 (PDF) |
| 14 |
35 |
Interference |
(PDF) |
|
| 36 |
Final exam |
(PDF) |
|