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Lecture: 19  (iq17)  Biot-Savart’s law (con’d) and Ampere’s law

 

1. Cross product (revisit)

2. Circular Arc and Line Segment (revisit)

3. Ring (R, z, q)

o   Dipole moment of a loop

4. Solenoid field (Fig18.53, p736)

     5. Solenoid Ampere’s law

o   Example: The long wire case

o   General form of the Ampere’s law

     6. More applications:

o   Thickwire (with radius R): r>R

o   Thickwire (with radius R): r<R

o   Solenoid

o   Toroid

 

Announcement:

o   Summary of unit 2 (draft version) has been posted. Let me know if you have found errors. Your comments are welcome.

o   Due dates of h2, h3 and h4 have now been postponed by 24 hours.

o   h2: 2/29, 11:30pm

o   h3: 3/2, 11:30pm

o   h4: 3/5, 11:30pm

o   Extra review session: Tue 5-6, TBA