The lecture notes were prepared in LaTeX by James Silva, an MIT student, based upon handwritten notes.
| WEEK # | SES # | TOPICS |
|---|---|---|
Week 1Introduction, electric field | 1 | Intro: Electrostatics (PDF) |
| 2 | Electrostatics problem solving (PDF) | |
Week 2Mathematical background | 3 | Vector review (PDF) |
| 4 | Divergence, gradient, curl (PDF) | |
| 5 | Integral calculus, Dirac delta function (PDF) | |
| 6 | Dirac delta function, curvilinear coordinates (PDF) | |
Week 3Gauss's law and electric potential | 7 | More curvilinear coordinates: Div and grad in spherical coordinates; Gauss's law (PDF) |
| 8 | Applications of Gauss's law: Field lines, point charge, Gaussian surfaces (PDF) | |
| 9 | Applications of Gauss's law: Line charge, plane charge (PDF) | |
| 10 | Electric potential; Poisson's equation; Laplace's equation (PDF) | |
Week 4Work and energy in electrostatics; conductors and capacitors | 11 | Electrostatic boundary conditions; conductors (PDF) |
| 12 | Capacitors, dielectrics, work (PDF) | |
| 13 | Capacitors, work, first and second uniqueness theorems (PDF) | |
Week 5The method of images and multipole expansion | 14 | Method of images (PDF) |
| 15 | Parallel plate capacitor, electric dipole (PDF) | |
| 16 | Separation of variables (PDF) | |
Week 6Exam 1 | 17 | Review for exam 1 |
| 18 | Exam 1 | |
Week 7Magnetostatics and special relativity | 19 | Dielectrics (PDF) |
| 20 | Magnetostatics, electric currents (PDF) | |
| 21 | Special relativity (PDF) | |
| 22 | Special relativity (cont.) (PDF) | |
Week 8Magnetic fields | 23 | Electric fields and force (PDF) |
| 24 | Magnetic fields; Lorenz force law (PDF) | |
| 25 | Cycloidal motion; Biot-Savart law (PDF) | |
| 26 | Biot-Savart law (cont.); Ampere's law (PDF) | |
Week 9Magnetic fields; Maxwell's laws; magnetic properties of materials | 27 | Maxwell's equations (PDF) |
| 28 | Induction (PDF) | |
| 29 | Magnetic boundary conditions; magnetic dipole (PDF) | |
| 30 | Magnetization; magnetic properties of materials (PDF) | |
Week 10Exam 2; magnetized materials | 31 | Review for exam 2 (PDF) |
| 32 | Exam 2 | |
| 33 | Ampere's law in magnetized materials (PDF) | |
| 34 | Bound current; ferromagnetism (PDF) | |
Week 11Circuits | 35 | Circuits (PDF) |
| 36 | Circuits; undriven RC circuits; Thevenin's theorem (PDF) | |
| 37 | Thevenin's theorem (cont.); Ohm's law; Faraday's law; Lenz's law (PDF) | |
| 38 | Alternating current circuits (PDF) | |
Week 12Circuits (cont.) | 39 | Inductance (PDF) |
| 40 | Undriven RLC circuits (PDF) | |
| 41 | Driven RLC circuits; Ladder impedance (PDF) | |
Week 13Maxwell; momentum | 42 | Maxwell's equations (PDF) |
| 43 | Poynting vector; Maxwell stress tensor (PDF) | |
| 44 | Conservation of momentum; Minkowski force (PDF) | |
| 45 | Review for exam 3 (PDF) | |
Week 14Electromagnetic waves | 46 | Exam 3 |
| 47 | Electromagnetic waves (PDF) | |
| 48 | Electromagnetic waves (cont.) (PDF) | |
| 49 | Topics for next week; relativity (PDF) | |
Week 15Advanced topics in relativity; quantum | 50 | Faraday tensor; Maxwell; General relativity (PDF) |
| 51 | Quantum (PDF) | |
| 52 | Schrodinger equation (PDF) |