What's New?

• 15-May-01: Grades are now available.
  • If you have questions about your grade, please contact Prof. Evans.
  • You can look at your final in the Physics Office (704 Pupin). If you have questions about the grading, please contact the graders directly.
• 25-Apr-01: Extended office hours during Reading Week will be: Wednesday morning, Thursday morning and Monday morning. Note, the Physics Help Room will be closed this week.
• 02-Apr-01: The review for midterm 2 will be held on Wednesday, April 4 in class due to conflicts with Passover.
• 20-Feb-01: It turns out that you can access your Columbia PID, that is used to reference your scores on the Grade List. See Grades & Results to find out how!
• 20-Feb-01: The ID numbers that are included on the grade list are meaningless. See Grades & Results for all the sordid details.
• 19-Feb-01: Problem Sets 1 and 2 are now graded. Check the Grades & Results page for your scores and pick up your graded problem sets in 704 Pupin.
• 08-Feb-01: The starting time of the Monday recitation section has been changed from 5:00 pm to 5:10 pm.
• 24-Jan-01: The bookstore has sold out of the text (again). More copies have been ordered and should arrive on Friday (Jan 26). I have posted the full text of the assigned problems for Problem Set 1 for those students who have not been able to get a copy of the text yet. If you need to get a copy of chapters 22 and 23, please contact me and I'll photocopy them for you.
• 29-Dec-00: Welcome to E & M!
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Course description

• Electric Forces & Coulomb's Law (fun with cat fur)
• Electric Fields & Potentials (energy rears its ugly head...again)

• Magnetic Forces & Fields (refrigerator art technology)

• Electric Current (going with the flow)
• Resistors, Capacitors & Inductors (going against the flow)
• Simple DC & AC Circuits (electrocute yourself & your friends)

• Maxwell's Equations (it's all the same to me)
• Electromagnetic Radiation (it's light Jim, but not as we know it)
• Polarization, Reflection & Refraction (twist, bounce & bend)

• Geometrical Optics (burning ants & other childhood pastimes)
• Interference & Diffraction (understanding sharkskin suits)