Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 216 Lecture 1: Lecture 1

• School: Harvard University
• Department: Engineering and Applied Sciences
• Course: Engineering and Applied Sciences Applied Physics 216
• Professor: Jene Golovchenko

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D x t t (cid:71) (cid:71) (cid:71) (cid:71) Maxwell field equations = me (cid:71) (cid:71) (cid:71) (cid:71) Ap 216 lecture 1 introduction to the field equations. Electromagnetic fields and sources (cid:112) electric field strength. Differential operators on vector fields (cid:71) (cid:71) v lim. S (cid:71) (cid:71) v ds (cid:71) (cid:71) (cid:71) v n lim. A (cid:118) (cid:71) (cid:71) v d l (2) Differential form of gauss and stokes laws (home work) S (cid:71) (cid:71) v ds (cid:71) (cid:71) v (cid:71) (cid:71) v ds lim. Other pieces of vector calculus you need for this lecture are (homework) (cid:71) (cid:71) f (cid:71) 2 (6) (note that 2() = (cid:112: ( (cid:112) (cid:112) , b do: act on particles d x t i. F all else (cid:71) x t i (cid:71) (cid:71) i q e x t i (cid:71) dx t i dt q i (cid:71) 3: they determine force density on a charged fluid (cid:71) x t.