364 E&M I

Fall semester 2008. Meet on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10:00-10.50 a.m.

Room: Physics 43.

Lecturer: Alex Travesset

Web: http://www.physics.iastate.edu/staff/travesset/index.html

A-503 Physics, Office phone 2947191, e-mailtrvsst@ameslab.gov

Course web page: http://www.physics.iastate.edu/staff/travesset/teaching.htm

Office hours: Monday 2:00-2.50 PM, Wednesday 11.00-11:50 AM in A-503 Physics. Other times are possible, but please make an appointment by e-mail.

Grading: Based on Homework (20%), two midterm exams (40%), final comprehensive exam (40%).

Homework: Will be picked up in class on the announced date. Dates will be announced in class.

Main textbook:

        D.J. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics, Prentice Hall, NJ, Third edition (other editions are fine but there are differences in the numbering of problems).

Other Useful textbooks

Basic

        H.D. Young and R.A. Freedman, University Physics, Addison wesley, San Francisco, 2004 (Chapters 21-32).

Advanced

        L. Landau and E.Lifshitz, Electrodynamics of Continuum Media, Butterworth-Heineman, Oxford, UK, 2002.

        J.D. Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics, J. Wiley and Sons,NY 1998

        R.P. Feynman, R.B. Leighton and M. Sands, The Feynman Lectures on physics, Volume 2, Addison Wesley