Electrodynamics Assignments

Oberlin College Physics 411

Spring 2009

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last updated 19 May 2009.

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

Model Solutions 1:

• Magnetic force between two moving charged particles
• Griffiths 7.2: Energy in capacitor discharge
• Griffiths 7.8: Electic induction
• Griffiths 7.9: Apparent oversight in the flux rule
• Griffiths 7.15: Solenoid
• Griffiths 7.23: Inductance of a hairpin loop

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

Model Solutions 2:

• Capacitor fields and energy
• A solution to the Maxwell equations
• Experimental detection of magnetic monopoles
• Electrostatics of a circuit
• Alfven's theorem

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

Model Solutions 3:

• Thomson's dipole

Assignment 4 (PDF) (Due Friday, 24 April.)

Model Solutions 4:

• Group velocity problems
• Griffiths 9.24: Width of anomalous dispersion

Assignment 5 (PDF) (Due Friday, 1 May.)

Model Solutions 5:

• Potentials and gauges
• Griffiths 10.14: Potential of a moving point charge
• Griffiths 11.15: Headlight effect

Assignment 6 (PDF) (Due Friday, 8 May.)

Model Solutions 6:

• Field energy and momentum