365 E&M II

Spring semester 2008. Meet on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10:00-10.50 a.m. We will meet in room 56 Zaffarano.

Lecturer: Alex Travesset

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

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

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

Office hours: Monday 3:00-3.50 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 the problems).

Other textbooks that maybe useful:

(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 & Sons, NY 1998.

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