Some office hours will be via zoom, some in person in Weniger 304 F. See below.
Zoom office hour meetings will be at the zoom link that you can find on the Zoom Tab in Canvas.

Instructor:
Jeffrey Hazboun W 10AM-11AM & F 11AM-12PM, in Weniger 313 (Zoom on Request) or email for an appointment.
Graduate TA and Tech Help:
Dustin Treece WF 12-1 (Weniger 304F, Zoom on Request)
Undergraduate LAs:
Logan Holler W 5-6PM, F 2-3PM (Weniger 304F, Zoom on Request)
Basie Seibert WF 4-5PM (Weniger 304F, Zoom on Request)
Max Siebersma TTh 5-6PM (Weniger 304F, Zoom on Request)

Communication with Instructor, TAs and LAs:

We will be using the Canvas Discussions board as much as possible to answer your questions. There will be separate discussions centered around class administration and the various learning units in the class, which should straightforwardly map to the various HW assignments. If you would like to contact any of the teaching team individually feel free to do so. Prof. Hazboun prefers the Canvas mail, but you can also email me. The teaching team's emails are in the hot links above.

Junior and Senior level courses for majors share textbooks. Copies are freely available in the SPS room and Weniger 304F. The recommended (NOT required) texts for this particular course are:

Griffiths (GEM), Introduction to Electrodynamics, 4th ed. Pearson, 2013, ISBN 13:978-0-321-85656-2
Taylor (T), Classical Mechanics, University Science Books , 2005. ISBN 978-1891389221

We will also be using assigned readings from two (free) online textbooks:

The Geometry of Static Fields
The Geometry of Mathematical Methods

We will not be following the Griffiths text closely, but it is well written and will provide you a good alternative description of much of the content of this course. It will also be used extensively in the E&M capstone next year. We will only be using a few small readings from the Taylor book, so don't feel you need to buy it if you don't already have it. The online texts are underdevelopment. If you would like a complete and published mathematical methods textbook, we recommend: Boas (Boas), Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences, 3rd ed., Wiley, 2005. ISBN 978-0-471-19826-0

We will be using the computer algebra system Mathematica in several of the upper-division physics courses. Students who wish to put a copy of Mathematica on their privately owned computer (helpful, but not required) should contact the IT Help Desk for current academic licensing information. The physics majors' study room (Weniger 304F), with many machines running this software, are open at all times to enrolled students. See the physics department office for information about keys to Weniger 304F.

• 1) Calculate electrostatic and magnetostatic fields from both discrete and continuous distributions of sources.
• 2) Apply Gauss's and Ampere's Laws in integral form to find electrostatic and magnetostatic fields in highly symmetric situations.
• 3) Apply Maxwell's equations in differential form to find sources from static fields.
• 4) Apply the “chop, multiply, add” method and \(d\vec{r}\) to set up and analyze the structure of line, surface, flux, and volume integrals in rectangular, cylindrical, and spherical coordinates.
• 5) Predict the gradient, divergence, and curl of fields from graphical representations.
• 6) Apply simple geometric arguments to prove the big vector calculus theorems (Divergence and Stokes') and then use them to transform the integral form of Maxwell's equations to the differential form.
• 7) Mathematics Content: Use power and Laurent series approximations to approximate fields in regions very far or very near the sources.
• 8) Sensemaking: Coordinate verbal, graphical, geometric, diagrammatic, and algebraic representations of sources and fields.
• 9) Apply physical situations with simple geometries as idealized building blocks for more complicated physical situations.
• 10) Apply the symmetries of physical situations to check the validity of symbolic and graphical representations of those situations.
• 11) Grad: Communicate electrostatic concepts at a level appropriate for physics learners

• 1) Finding electrostatic and magnetostatic fields from discrete and continuous sources using the superposition principle.
• 2) Extending the techniques of vector calculus from rectangular to cylindrical and spherical coordinates.
• 3) Visualizing scalar- and vector-valued functions and their derivatives in three dimensions.
• 4) Extending the integral versions of Maxwell's equations (learned in introductory physics) to the local, differential versions.
• 5) Calculating the work done on and by an electrostatic field.
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Your course grade will be determined by:

• Required Homework/Other Assignments: (40%) HW 0: 2 points for sending Jeff a short message telling them something interesting about yourself, preferably through Canvas (and to prove that you have read the website!)
• Quizzes:(10%)
  • Weekly Quizzes: (5%) A short 5-10ish minute quiz will be given online each week on straightforward, essential content. A goal of Jeff's is that EVERYONE gets a perfect score on these quizzes. The content will be announced ahead of time (on the Course Schedule) so that you have time to review and practice. You can take the quiz at your convenience anytime via a link on the course website starting at noon each Monday (including week 1!!) and extending until 3:00 pm every Tuesday. Upload your solution to Gradescope and the grade will be posted by class the next day. If you are struggling with these quizzes or feel lost please come to office hours as soon as possible or reach out via Canvas or email.
  • Big Quiz 5% A longer online quiz will be administered via Canvas/Gradescope at the beginning of the 4th week of class. This quiz will have two questions pulled from topics covered up until that point in the semester. This is not meant to be a midterm. Rather it is an opportunity for you and I to check in about the progression of your skills. It also gives you a chance to understand how I test this material before the final exam. It will be open book, but completed alone.
• Classroom Participation, Attendance & Activity Redux (10%) Class participation is crucial for the activity-based teaching style used in the Paradigms classes. Each day I am going to ask you to give a quick summary of your thoughts from the day's activities. There are three simple prompts in Gradescope that only require 1 or 2 sentences. These small assignments will allow us to continually gauge where the class is at in our learning progression. They will be due at 11:59PM each evening. If you can not make it to class please contact myself or Dustin and let us know! We will provide you with any materials available so that you can stay up to speed on the topics in the class.
  Note: classroom participation includes not only asking and answering physics questions and making other content-based contributions to the class, but also using professional behavior to ensure that the classroom environment is a safe, collaborative learning space for everyone. Please see the department guidelines for further information.
• Exam (40%)

Notes:

• Homework: The best way to learn the material of this course is to attend class and do the homework.
• Practice Problems: I will sometimes provide Practice Problems. These are meant to be review or relatively simple examples for you to check whether you understand the material. They will not be graded. Solutions will be posted at the same time as the practice problems. I recommend that you at least read each practice problem. If you don't know how to do it, ask for help.
• Required Problems: Required homework is due on Wednesdays and Fridays. Please submit via Gradescope by 10 pm on the due date. Some Required Problems will be graded for correctness; others will be graded for completeness. Solutions will be posted online after the due date.
• Late Homework: We really want you to do the homework, so we will absolutely accept late homework (with a penalty of 20% for late work with higher penalties if the work is very late). When you know that an assignment will be late, let me and the grader know as soon as possible. Turn in what you've completed at the due/date time (it'll help us with grading logistics). Any portion of the work that is turned in on time will not be subject to the late penalty. Please consult the instructor for extenuating circumstances.
• Quizzes: The quizzes will be administered remotely.
• Final: The final exam will occur from 7-9 pm on Monday, February 13th. And will be administered in Weniger 212. More detailed information about the exam will be posted as Canvas announcements.

Additional Guidance

• You are strongly encouraged to work on assignments, including coding and plotting, collaboratively. Science is inherently a social and collaborative effort. So that we can best support your learning, you are required to turn in assignments that you have written up independently.
• Appropriate resources on assignments include: working with each other, graduates of the course, the course TAs and LAs, or the course instructor; textbooks; other online materials, etc. Do NOT use homework solutions from previous years and do NOT share your completed homework solutions with other students (in other words, collaborate through discussion, not copying).
• Document your resources appropriately. If you find a homework problem worked out somewhere (other than homework solutions from a previous year), you may certainly use that resource, just make sure you reference it properly. If someone else helps you solve a problem, reference that too. An appropriate reference might be "Jeffrey Hazboun (private communication, 1/15/22)" or "I worked with Jeffrey Hazboun on this problem". Representing someone else's work as your own without reference\(-\) also known as plagiarism \(-\) is unethical, but collaboration and exchange of ideas is healthy. You can avoid having collaborative efforts take on the look of plagiarism by acknowledging sources as described above and by writing up your work independently.
• The problems in this course will likely take longer than problems you've seen in previous courses. If you find that you have worked on a problem for 1/2 hour WITHOUT MAKING FORWARD PROGRESS, it's time to pause, take a break, sleep, and seek help from classmates or the instructional team.