PHYS 4392 Web Sites   F13
Last edit: 17 Aug 2013
Self-study resources
An excellent resource accompanying Pollack and Stump's Electromagnetism that contains
self-test
questions and answers, practice exams, useful tables and chapter summaries
is located here .
Richard Fitzpatrick
has wonderful lecture notes on electromagnetism written at the level of our text.
A graduate level online text by Robert Brown online textbook may be useful to the ambitious.
Electrostatic Java Applets
2-dimensional electrostatic fields for various charge configurations (Paul Falstad)
An electric field applet with a distribution of charges (Caltech)
Magnetostatic Applets
3-dimensional magnetostatic field in a variety of circumstances. (Paul Falstad)
Special relativity and electromagnetism Applets
Field of a moving point charge. (Caltech)
Origin of the v x B term in the lorentz force. (Caltech)
Diverse helpful software
gnuplot (A freeware plotting and fitting package.)
Online integrator from Mathematica®
Note: SMU has a site license for Mathematica®. Contact ITS for details.
Just for fun
Dr. Electric's high voltage site. An amusing (and informative) site
showing
dramatic time dependent electromagnetic effects. Includes videos, photos
and technical details.
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