Ampere (on the left), upon hearing of the experimental results of the Danish physicist Oersted (on the right), developed his mathematical law relating magnetic field and current within a few weeks. Oersted's observation that an electric current caused a compass needle to deflect, indicating the presence of a magnetic field, also excited Biot and Savart to develop the law that bears their names.

Week 11 - March 30 - April 3:

• CHECK OUT THESE LINKS for simulations to show vector fields in 2D and 3D and another (emstatic) in 2D.
  
  
• EXAM 1: Solutions to the exam of March 17 are posted on the CULearn page. The class average was 46 out 64; the standard deviation was 12.
  
  
• OFFICE HOURS THIS WEEK: Monday office hours with Prof. Kinney will be in the tutorial bay, G2B77, from 5-6pm. Tuesday office hours are in the same location and run from 4-6:00pm. If you cannot come to one of these sessions, send me an email, and I'll try to find another time.
  
  
• WRITTEN HOMEWORK: HW#9 is due this week on April 1st, in class as usual. The problems can be found at the assignments link (always available on the sidebar).
  
  
• READING: We are studying Ampere's law and the Vector Potential. Read Griffiths' 5.3 and 5.4.
  
  
• TUTORIALS: This week we have a regular tutorial, Friday (Apr 3) at 4pm at the G2B tutorial bay G2B77. We'll focus on how to apply Ampere's law to find the magentic field. All past tutorials are posted on the assignments page.
  
  
• HW SOLUTIONS: Solutions to HW1 - HW8 are posted on our CULearn page.
  
  
• Course home pages from the previous week: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.