Andre-Marie Ampère

The Experimental Study Group

Physics at ESG - Spring 2005

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.

Spring 2005

What follows is from previous terms, and may or may not be applicable for Spring 2005. However, here it is.

Supplements

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.
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.

"Dipoles" in 2 Dimensions, XDVI or PDF.
Mainly filling in math details of something we didn't get to finish in class once.
Reciprocity Theorem, XDVI or PDF.
Yes, more math regarding fields of inductors.
Fun With Integrals, XDVI or PDF.
I can't for the life of me remember why this is here, but it sure looks slick. I hope we don't have to do much of this sort.
Image Charge for a Sphere, XDVI or PDF.
This really needs a figure (I was and still am lazy). Actually, this page is a simplification of a similar argument, presented without derivation, in Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics, which some of you will eventually use for even more advanced E&M. (Ignore the reference to the quiz on Wednesday, probably).
The heck with tact; let's acknowledge the useful result

which is valid for b > 0, b = 0 or b <; 0. Depending on the range of integration, we would be concerned about whether or not |b| < a².
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.
Template for DC Circuits (download with "Shift-Left-Click" or "Right-Click".)

Other Things

MIT Physics Colloquium Schedule for Spring 2005.
Can't let this go without visiting Albert.
Contact Your Humble Instructor, padour@mit.edu.

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If you're wondering why at physics page borrows from the mathematicians, well, this is ESG (but see what they say about Faraday).