Physics 142 - Fall 2007 - University of Rochester
Electricity and Magnetism
News:
Our course is over! You can find the final exam solutions and grade distributions below. You can check the details/accuracy of your scores in BlackBoard as soon as I get the information put into that system.
Ponder this:
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
- Thomas Alva Edison, Life (1932)
Important Links:
Manly's previous exams (scroll to bottom)
Exam grades not as good as you would like? Try the Troubleshooting guide.
Manly's regrade and exam question policy
Exam 1 grade distribution and means
Exam 2 grade distribution and mean
Best numerical average distribution (final average used for letter grades)
Bored? Check these out:
U Colorado modern physics site
Instructor/office hours: 
Steve Manly, Department of Physics and Astronomy
reach via email: steven.manly@rochester.edu
reach via phone: 585-275-8473
reach via feet: B&L 203E
Manly's office hours: Monday 3:30-4:30 pm and Tuesday 1:30-3:00 or by appointment
Workshop leaders:
Greg Howland
ghowland@pas.rochester.edu
Greg's office hour: Wednesday 2-3 pm in the physics and astronomy library
Zhen Qi
zqi@mail.rochester.edu
Zhen's office hour: Tuesday 5-6 pm in the physics and astronomy library
Workshop section times:
Monday 2-4 pm, Meliora 218
Tuesday 5-7 pm, CSB 209
Wednesday 5-7 pm, B&L 270
Thursday 6:15-8:15 pm, B&L 208
Laboratory:
email physlabs@pas.rochester.edu with question/issues
Presentation project information
Applets (copyright UR and Truth & Beauty software)
Coulomb
Electric field
Electric flux
Magnetic field and charged particle
Magnetostatics about current-carrying wire
Induction
Electromagnetic waves
Polarization of electromagnetic waves
Lectures:
Lect 1 - Sept. 4, 2007 - Introduction to course, Coulomb's Law
Lect 2 - Sept. 6, 2007 - Coulomb's Law, Electric field
Lect 3 - Sept. 11, 2007 - Electric field, brute force E field calculations
Lect 4 - Sept. 13, 2007 - Electric flux, Gauss' Law
Lect 5 - Sept. 18, 2007 - Gauss' Law, curvilinear coordinates
Lect 6 - Sept. 20, 2007 - Gauss' Law, electric potential
Lect 7 - Sept. 25, 2007 - Electric potential
Lect 8 - Sept. 27, 2007 - Electric potential, capacitance
Lect 9 - Oct. 2, 2007 - Capacitance, energy density in electric field
Lect 10 - Oct. 9, 2007 - Electric fields in materials, current, resistance
Lect 11 - Oct. 11, 2007 - Kirchoff's rules, Start of RC circuits
Lect 12 - Oct. 16, 2007 - RC circuits, start of special relativity
Lect 13 - Oct. 18, 2007 - Special relativity
Lect 14 - Oct. 23, 2007 - Magnetism, Lorentz force law (slides, PDF file), (audio, mp3 file)
Lect 15 - Oct. 25, 2007 - Biot-Savart, Ampere's Law (slides), (audio 64 kbs, audio 16 kbs)
Lect 16 - Oct. 30, 2007 - Ampere's Law
Lect 17 - Nov. 1, 2007 - Induction, Faraday's Law, Lenz's Law
Lect 18 - Nov. 6, 2007 - Induction, LC circuits, start of AC circuits
Lect 19 - Nov. 13, 2007 - AC circuits
Lect 20 - Nov. 15, 2007 - Maxwell's equations
Lect 21 - Nov. 20, 2007 - Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic waves
Lect 22 - Nov. 27, 2007 - Energy/momentum/polarization in electromagnetic waves
Lect 23 - Nov. 29, 2007 - Geometric optics
Lect 24 - Dec. 4, 2007 - Transistor presentation - fact sheet, slides
.......................................- Planetary magnetic fields presentation - fact sheet, slides
Lect 25 - Dec. 6, 2007 - Electical musical instruments presentation - fact sheet, slides
......................................- Laser presentation - fact sheet, slides
Lect 26 - Dec. 11, 2007 - Wireless communications presentation - fact sheet, slides
........................................ - Superconductivity presentation - fact sheet, slides
Lect 27 - Dec. 13, 2007 - Particle detectors - fact sheet, slides
........................................ - E&M in chemistry/medicine - MRI - fact sheet, slides
Problem sets:
Problem set 1, due Sept. 13, 2007
Problem set 2, due Sept. 20, 2007
Problem set 3, due Sept. 27, 2007
Problem set 4, due Oct. 11, 2007
Problem set 5, due Oct. 18, 2007
Problem set 6, due Oct. 30, 2007
Problem set 7, due Nov. 1, 2007
Problem set 8, due Nov. 15, 2007
Problem set 9, due Nov. 29, 2007
Problem set 10, due Dec. 6, 2007
Problem set 11, due Dec. 13, 2007
Problem set solutions:
Workshop modules:
Workshop 1, for week of Sept. 10, 2007
Workshop 2, for week of Sept. 17, 2007
Workshop 3, for week of Sept. 24, 2007
Workshop 4, for week of Oct. 1, 2007
Workshop 5, for week of Oct. 8, 2007
Workshop 6, for week of Oct. 15, 2007
Workshop 7, for week of Oct. 22, 2007
Workshop 8, for week of Oct. 29, 2007
Workshop 9, for week of Nov. 5, 2007
Workshop 10, for week of Nov. 12, 2007
Workshop 11, for week of Nov. 26, 2007
Workshop 12, for week of Dec. 3, 2007
Workshop 13, for week of Dec. 10, 2007