 Andre-Marie Ampère |
The Experimental Study Group
Physics at ESG - Fall 2004
8.022 |
 James
Clerk Maxwell |
The material on this page, under serious construction, is for MIT students at the Experimental Study
Group enrolled in 8.022 -
Electricity and Magnetism.
Some other ESG physics subjects are at Freshman
Physics at ESG.
To make the beginning of the term a bit easier, for some of us,
the Introductory Material,
handed out on Tuesday September 7, has been put online.
The Final Exam will be Tuesday December 14, at ESG (room to be
determined), at the early hour of 9AM.
The Course Outline, consisting of the Syllabus and Calendar has a page of its own.
The Problem Sets have been moved to a separate page.
On This Page
Your Humble Instructor, Craig Watkins, aka
YHI, will take his chances with spammers. He's
sometimes in 24-611B and often answers the phone at 3-2872.
Helping
the students (and of course YHI) is Timothy Mwangi
(mwangi.
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This list will probably grow as the term progresses. Much of these
notes came as a result of students' questions, so if you have questions
about the material, answers might end up here.
- First off, the Physics Department's 8.022 Handouts page
looks like something we may be able to use.
- We'll go with our own Table of
Vector Operators, XDVI or PDF
Naturally, these have already
been extended in More on Vector Algebra and Vector
Operators, but not part of the above tables. (This has lots of
special characaters, and looks best in PDF.)
- The Review of Particle Physics
from the Particle Data Group. More physical constants than you're
likely to need for 8.022, but it's good to know where to find such
things.
You might want to compare this to what Purcell discusses in
Appendix E.
- Supplemental Class
Notes
For the most part, these will be a little bit
extra math, mostly optional but possibly interesting. Perhaps not
surprisingly, links to the 18.023-ESG
notes will be inlcuded.
- An Alternate Method for Problem
1.35, PDF or XDVI
This is mostly math, but applied to a
type of integral that occurs commonly in many branches of physics.
Reference is made to other notes: - From
18.02IS-ESG, Useful Integrals for Spherical
Coordinates, XDVI or
PDF
- From
18.023-ESG, Alternative Derivations of the
Gravitational Attraction of a Spherical Shell, XDVI or
PDF.
Of the two methods presented here, one will be gladly presented
in class on request, and the
other is equivalent to following the hint in the text.
- Magnetic
Fields in Conductors. This was from 8.02, but it got out of hand.
It's here because the math is similar to that used in this
problem.
- An An Extension of the Discussion of September 20,
2004, PDF or XDVI
If you missed any part of class
today, or would like to see it again, these mainly mathematical notes
(but with a physics example) deal with how derivative operators change
when changing coordinate systems. This came up in response to a
question about part (C) on the first problem set, and
you gotta take my word for it, we wouldn't be doing this sort of math
if it didn't matter.
- Image Charges for Conducting Spheres, PDF only (in color!). You might need
these for Problem Set 7.
- More
on Problem 4.27; Template for DC Circuits, Release 3, Release 9 (download with
"Shift-Left-Click" or "Right-Click") or ASCII. We'll spend a bit of time discussing
the basic Linear Algebra that goes into this. Basically, never take
the determinant of a matrix larger than 3×3 unless there are
large sums of money involved.
- More on Problem
6.22. These will be put online after the problem is due.
- From 8.03
at ESG, some Notes on
Critical Damping. Ignore dates or other fruit.
- Non-Simultaneity in Moving Frames, PDF only (we need the figures, such as
they are). This was originally done in class, but in chalk and
sloppily. The figures are no big whoop, but the equations are
legible.
- More on Problem 9.8; Template for
Fieldplots, Release 3, Release 9 (download with
"Shift-Left-Click" or "Right-Click") or ASCII.
- Even More on Problem 9.8, mostly trig identities, but
leading to a result that some of us think is neat and useful. This
will be linked after the problem is due, and very possibly discussed
in class.
- Coordinate-Free Representations of
Vector Derivative Operators, XDVI or PDF. It's questionable if we're allowed
to have so much fun. These use "Physics" notation for spherical polar
coordinates. For "Math" notation, see Math-XDVI or Math-PDF.
- Notes from Previous
terms
These might be of use. For now, this is just
a place to park them. Ignore dates.
- Using
Maple for ESG subjects
In case you want to get started. We may
not be doing much of this, but it can't hurt. This page is old; the
default release of Maple on Athena is now Release 9. I'll get
around to it someday.
Ideally, this would be kind of thin, but hey, sometimes the chalk has
a mind of its own.
- Correction for Tuesday September 14. Hey, whose
idea was it to have class at 8:30 in the morning? This correction
will be addressed in class on Friday September
17. In any event, the needed expression will be used
in Problem Set 2, a work in progress.
The above portraits and all biographies are from the Indexes
of Biographies, maintained by the School of Mathematics
and Statistics at the University of
St. Andrews.
If you're wondering why at physics page borrows
from the mathematicians, well, this is ESG (but see what they say
about Faraday).
