Physics 302 (Electromagnetic Fields)

• Office: 319 Greenquist Hall

• Email: jeff@rustam.uwp.edu

All reference material will be made available in two formats; HTML and PDF. The HTML contains equations, to view them as they are meant to appear your browser need to know how to handle HTML3.2, and be able to load the Symbol fonts. For Xwindows there is a font alias . For MacIntosh, enable "MacRoman" in the preferences menu for Netscape.

Problems Printing

Get AFPL Ghostscript for Windows (free), and install it. Then get GSview 4.7 and install it (in that order), and you can view or print .ps (postscript) files and .pdf files, and create pdf files. It is considerably faster than Acrobat.

Advice for printing; Do not use the Netscape-->file-->print menu to print PDF files from Adobe Acrobat, instead use the Print button on the Acrobat or GSview toolbar; if you do this the PDF's print out fine with Acrobat. Downloading the files to your hard drive (Netscape; SHIFT+click) before sending them to Acrobat or Ghostscript may also help.

• First handout and homework Curvilinear coordinates and vector calculus.

• Physics 202 notes on Gauss' law. The problems in these sets of notes were assigned in 202 and/or appeared on exams. You are "expected" to have some mastery of these subjects after taking 202.

• Physics 202 notes on conductors.

• Physics 202 notes on Coulomb's law.

• Syllabus

  Computer Programs

• C-program to solve Laplace's equation by relaxation, (implementation of the mean-value theorem discussed in lecture), no graphics.

• C-program to solve Laplace's equation by relaxation (mean-value theorem), with X or GIF graphics. Here is a typical output . Voltage is illustrated with shading and height z=V(x,y).

• Sophisticated 3D plotting program for illustration of radiation intensity functions. This produces X, PS and GIF outputs, similar to the following for synchrotron radiation at beta=0.6. The figures can be displayed at any vantage point (3 Euler angles), translated, rotated. It will write to the Xwindow or a file, and handles linearly accelerated particles, synchrotron radiation, and antenna radiation. It requires libplot.
  
  a different view , and another. Here is a full-wave altenna plot for kL=5.0 The technique used to render the 3D objects with correct perspective, foreground obscuring background, was developed for the 499 advanced scientific computation course. Perfectly suited to drawing and sectioning spherical or monopole harmonics.

• Java applet sources for field line/equipotential/field vector drawing applet; a greatly enhanced version of the trubasic program. Run the applet from Netscape if you have Java enabled.

• Adobe Acrobat Reader

• Ghostscript

• C, C++, FORTRAN compilers for NT4.0/2000/XP

• UW-Parkside Physics