Lecture notes for EM1, spring 96

A complete set of lecture notes is in the 742 ringbook on the Reserve Shelf in the Physics Library. The following lecture notes and fragments are also available on the web and can be printed in various ways (see Printing Instructions at the end of this file):

Lecture 1: Chapter 1, part 1. Basic electrostatics
Lecture 2: Chapter 1, part 2. Electrostatic energy. Boundary values and uniqueness. Also in SWP-TeX
Lecture 3: Chapter 1, part 3. Capacitance and capacitors
Lecture 4: Chapter 2, part 1. Method of images
Lecture 5: Chapter 2, part 2. Fourier expansions
Lecture 6: Chapter 2, part 3. Fields in two dimensions, complex variable methods
Lecture 7: Chapter 3, part 1. Legendre functions, spherical harmonics
Lecture 8: Chapter 3, part 2. Bessel functions
Lecture 9: Chapter 4, part 1. Electric multipoles
Lecture 10: Chapter 4, part 2. Dielectric media
Lecture 11: Chapter 5, part 1. Steady currents. Basic magnetism.
Lecture 12: Chapter 5, part 2. Magnetic dipoles and magnetisation
Lecture 13: Chapter 5, part 3. Magnetism in matter
Sphere in an applied field, boundary value problems
Elliptic integrals and hypergeometric functions for loop problems
Lecture 14: Chapter 6, part 1. Maxwell's equations
Lecture 15: Chapter 6, part 2. Energy and momentum
Inductance formulas and examples, following Jackson's problems 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Complex impedance and power in a linear system
Lecture 16: Chapter 7, part 1. Electromagnetic plane waves



Printing Instructions

Only this file and a few notes (such as lect01) have been converted to the .html format and look good on the web. Such files can be printed directly from the www screen by clicking on File, Print (on a PC, you can also type Alt-fp). Other Hints for HTML files are at the end.

Most lecture notes were created in LaTeX using Scientific Workplace 2.01 (SW20) and not converted to HTML. You can view them with a TeX previewer and you can get the high quality TeX printout as in this example:
In the directory .../notes/lect02 you will find lect02.tex, lect02.dvi, lect02.ps, and some auxiliary files. If your system is properly set up, you can view lect02.dvi and then print it, or you can directly print lect02.ps; this works (using GhostView) on the PC's and Macs in Room 220 (unless they have been reset). Or you can transfer either file to your system and play with it.
The file lect02.tex is the LaTeX source file, out of which the others were created. This is the file you link to when you click on Lecture 2. In order to use a .tex file like this, especially if it has figures, you really need Scientific Work Place. If you know about TeX, you can modify it for some other TeX processor, but this is seldom worth the trouble. In some cases I have already converted a .tex file to a generic LaTeX format myself, or show how to do it in a comment at the top of the file. Good luck.

Hint on viewing:

What Netscape does with a file depends on the choices made under Options, Preferences. The default choice, Ask User, means that you must give instructions every time you access the file. You may want to associate the .tex extension with SW20 (if present), so that you can directly get the same view of the file as in class.

Hints for HTML files:

The printout off the www screen is generally good if there is no math. Math shows fairly well if you use Netscape, may give trouble using Mosaic. A PC prints math better than a Mac (choose Black and White Images on a Mac, or you will get no math). I got the best results from the PC's in Room 220, Physics Building, by setting the print quality to Medium and the image quality also to Medium (in the Options menu).



Vittorio Celli
Thu Oct 12 17:44:56 EDT 1995