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Instructor:
Ralf Wittenberg
K-10536, 291-4792
ralf@sfu.ca |
Lectures:
M, W, F 8:30-9:20am
in K 9500 |
Text:
Davis & Snider,
Introduction to Vector Analysis
Wm.C. Brown |
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Announcements:
- Homework Set 7, due March 9
(Update, March 4: This link now works; please contact me by e-mail concerning any broken links!)
- Lecture 25: 7 March
Conservative Fields and Potentials:
Conservative fields, scalar potential function, fundamental theorem of calculus for gradients, path-independence for conservative fields; irrotational fields
Reading: D&S Ch.4 (4.3, 4.4)
- Lecture 26: 9 March
Conservative, Irrotational and Solenoidal Fields:
Irrotational fields are conservative in simply connected domains, examples of conservative fields, computing the scalar potential, example of non-conservative irrotational field in punctured domain; solenoidal fields, vector potential
Reading: D&S Ch.4 (4.3, 4.4, 4.5)
- Lecture 27: 11 March
Vector Potentials, Oriented Surfaces:
Solenoidal vector fields have vector potential in simply connected domains, interpretation of scalar and vector potential; surfaces, normal vector, orientation, nonorientable surfaces
Reading: D&S Ch.4 (4.4, 4.5, 4.6)
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