Department of Physics University of Florida PHY 3323 Electromagnstism 1 (Spring 2012: Section 3799, 3 credits)   Instructor: Mark W. Meisel Office: NPB 2358, Tel: 392-8867 BEST Place to Find Me: NPB B133, Tel: 392-9147 Email: meisel@phys.ufl.edu Office Hours: posted online, and by appointment. Syllabus (pdf) “in vivo” Schedule “Gradebook” at UF ELS   UF Dept. of Physics H-ITT Site: http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~hitt/ TA/GA: Doug Rank (rank@phys.ufl.edu) Office Hour: Thursdays Period 11 (6:15-7:05 pm) Location: NPB 2038 Formula Sheet (pdf)

"Observed and simulated magnetic pattern in a thin metal film, generated by a strong ultrafast electromagnetic field pulse parallel to the film surface."  Cover art from Physical Review Letters Vol. 102, Issue 21 (29 May 2009) from article by S. J. Gamble* et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 102 (2009) 217201.  * Sara completed her UF Honors thesis in the Meisel Group and went to Stanford University where she received her PhD in Applied Physics.

Textbook and Links:  The “official” textbook for this course is “Introduction to Electrodynamics, 3rd edition” by David J. Griffiths. As described in the syllabus, for this course, a student can also use the 2nd edition of the same book.  As far as I can tell, there are only small changes between the two versions for the first six chapters, which we expect to cover in this course.  If you anticipate taking the second semester of this course, which covers the material after Chapter 6, you may wish to know that there are some more significant differences between the two versions.  Some notes about corrections are given on the author’s webpage, see David J. Griffiths.
 
Additional News! (25 Jan 2012)

TA Office Hour posted!

Electric dipole moment and nice pictures...
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6059/1110.full