Electrodynamics Assignments

Oberlin College Physics 411

Fall 2021

This World Wide Web page written by Dan Styer, Oberlin College Department of Physics and Astronomy ;
http://www.oberlin.edu/physics/dstyer/Electrodynamics/Assignments/assignments.html;
last updated 19 August 2021.

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Assignment 1 (PDF) (Due Friday, 3 December.)

Model Solutions 1:

• Magnetic force between two moving charged particles
• Griffiths 7.8: Electric induction
• Griffiths 7.9: Apparent oversight in the flux rule
• Griffiths 7.15: Solenoid
• Griffiths 7.25: Inductance of a hairpin loop

Assignment 2 (PDF) (Due Friday, 10 December.)

Model Solutions 2:

• Magnetic energy and electric generators
• Griffiths 7.37: A solution to the Maxwell equations
• Griffiths 7.39: Experimental detection of magnetic monopoles
• Griffiths 7.42: Electrostatics of a circuit
• Mark Heald's article that inspired the above problem. (Nice pictures!)

Assignment 3 (PDF) (Due Friday, 17 December.)

Model Solutions 3:

• Griffiths 7.2: Energy in capacitor discharge
• Griffiths 7.34 and 8.2: Capacitor fields and energy
• Griffiths 7.63: Alfven's theorem
• Griffiths 8.19: Thomson's dipole

Assignment 4 (PDF) (Due Friday, 7 January.)

Model Solutions 4:

• Griffiths 9.12: Time averages
• Griffiths 9.13: Maxwell stress tensor for light
• Griffiths 9.23: Water waves and quantal waves

Assignment 5 (PDF) (Due Friday, 14 January.)

Model Solutions 5:

• Griffiths 10.3: Potentials and gauges
• Griffiths 10.16: Potential of a moving point charge
• Griffiths 11.15: Headlamp effect

Assignment 6 (PDF) (Due never.)

Model Solutions 6:

• Units in electromagnetism
• Field energy and momentum

Sample Final/Honors Exam (PDF)