Physics 352F, Fall 2006
Electromagnetic Theory


[ Instructor | Teaching Assistant | Special Announcement | Homework | Exams | Handouts | Course Notes for Magnetization
| Class Room and Hours] [ Text Book | Grading | Course Plan | Tentative Outline]

Instructor

Kentaro Hori

Office: McLennan Laboratory 1113
Phone: (416) 978-4784
Fax: (416) 978-2537
E-mail: hori at physics dot utoronto dot ca
Office hour: Fridays 1-2

Teaching Assistant

So Takei

Office: MP 1026
Phone: (416) 978-6185
E-mail: stakei at physics dot utoronto dot ca
Office hour: Thursdays 1-2

Special Announcement

If you have not received your marked homework and mid-term exam, please come to TA's office MP1026.

Homework Assignments

No delay is allowed. (There will be 100% penalty for late assignments.)

Problem Set Assignments Due Date Solutions
Problem Set #1 homework1.pdf September 18 (Mon) 10:10am here
Problem Set #2 homework2.pdf September 25 (Mon) 10:10am here
Problem Set #3 homework3.pdf October 2 (Mon) 10:10am here
Problem Set #4 homework4.pdf October 11 (Wed) 9:10am here
Problem Set #5 homework5.pdf October 16 (Mon) 10:10am here
Problem Set #6 homework6.pdf October 23 (Mon) 10:10am here
Problem Set #7 homework7.pdf October 30 (Mon) 10:10am here
Problem Set #8 homework8.pdf November 13 (Mon) 10:10am here
Problem Set #9 homework9.pdf November 20 (Mon) 10:10am here
Problem Set #10 homework10.pdf November 27 (Mon) 10:10am here
Problem Set #11 homework11.pdf December 4 (Mon) 10:10am here

Tutorial Problems


Date Problems
September 21 Problem
September 28 Problems 3.12, 3.13, 3.14, 3.15
October 5 Problems 3.18, 3.19, 3.22
October 19 Problems 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.10, 4.11
October 26 4.15, 4.16, 4.18, 4.19, 4.20, 4.32
November 9 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5
November 16 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 6.10, 6.12
November 23 6.14, 6.16, 6.17, 6.26
November 30 here
December 7 Section 7.3.5 (and 7.3.6 if the time permits).

Handouts

October 18: Meaning of bound charges.
November 1: Permittivity tensor.
November 8: Magnetic dipole mement and average formula.
November 13: Meaning of bound currents.
November 22: References on "origins of magnetization".

Course Notes for Magnetization

November 27: Zeeman energy, paramagnetism, Curie's law; Heisenberg's model of ferromagnetism, exchange interaction.
November 29: Mean field approximation, spontaneous magnetization, Curie temperature, Curie-Weiss law.
December 4: Landau's theory of phase transitions.

Exams

Mid-term: November 2 (Thursday), 9-11, MP125-126. Problems (solutions).
We provide you three additional information sheets (from the 3 pages of the textbook).
The content will be the materials covered in classes (from the first till the end of November 1 class). I do not assume that you have taken thermal/statistical physics.
The mid-term in the last two years are 2004 and 2005. This year's one will be a little easier than these.

Final: December 19 (Tuesday), 2-5, MP125. Problems (solutions).
We provide you three additional information sheets (from the 3 pages of the textbook, same as in the mid-term test).
The final in the last two years are 2004 (solution) and 2005 solution.

Class Room and Hours

  • Class Room: MP137
  • Class Hours:
    Lecture -- Mondays and Wednesdays 10:00-11:00AM
    Tutorial -- Thursdays 9:00-10:00AM

Text Book

  • D. J. Griffith, Introduction to Electrodynamics, 3rd edition (Prentice Hall).

Reference Books

  • Feynman-Leighton-Sands, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, (Addison Wesley).

Grading

There are two grading schemes: the one yielding the higher grade will be used.
  • Homework Assignment 30%, Final Exam 70%
  • Homework Assignment 30%, Mid-Term Exam 30%, Final Exam 40%

Course Plan

  • I will assume that everyone in this class has already taken Physics 251S (Electricity and Magnetism) or has studied chapters 1, 2, 5, and some parts of chapter 7 of Griffith's book.
  • I will closely follow the text book. Our aim is to cover chapters 3, 4, 6, and 7 (review of 7.3.3, then 7.3.4, 7.3.5, 7.3.6). We will review chapter 2 before we start chapters 3 and 4. We will also review chapter 5 before we start chapter 6 and 7. Since I will assume that everyone in the class is familiar with chapters 1, 2 and 5, when we review chapters 2 and 5, only the key concepts from these chapters will be reviewed without solving examples. The main purpose of the review is to remind students about what they learned in the last spring semester.
  • I will also include materials which are not discussed in Griffith's book, including statistical mechanics of magnetic material, mean field theory, and Landau theory of phase transition. For this subject (covered in late November or early December), I recommend these as well as the textbook for "Thermal Physics" (PHY252S) by C. Kittel and H. Kroemer, Chapter 10.
  • The final objective of the course is to understand electromagnetism in "matter" (as well as in free space !) and the complete Maxwell's equations.
  • Homework problems and the solutions will be posted on the course web page.

Course Outline

  1. Review of Electrostatics in Free Space (Chapter 2)

  2. Boundary Value Problems, Method of Images, Multipole Expansion (Chapter 3)

  3. Electric Fields in Matter (Chapter 4)

  4. Review of Magnetostatics in Free Space (Chapter 5)

  5. Magnetic Fields in Matter (Chapter 6)

  6. Electrodynamics and Maxwell's Equations in Free Space and Matter (Chapter 7); review 7.3.3 and cover 7.3.4, 7.3.5, 7.3.6