Joseph Fourier and Adrien Legendre - both mathematicians, though Fourier was a physicist too. Fourier's work was on heat flow (Wikipedia gives him credit for "discovering" the greenhouse effect, among other things), but obviously his work turned out to have many other applications! Fourier and Legendre worked around the turn of the 19th century, roughly the same era that the early theories of static electromagnetism (the subject of much of this semester) were being developed. Maxwell's unifying work wasn't till the middle of the 1800's. Up through (and beyond) the early 1800's there was almost complete (and explicit) exclusion of women from higher education (in Europe and the US), hence the unfortunate and rather outrageous gender bias in this cast of characters. These pictures are taken from the Dibner Portrait site.

Week 7 - February 23-27:

• OFFICE HOURS THIS WEEK: Monday office hours with Prof. Kinney will be in the tutorial bay, G2B77, from 3-4pm and 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#6 is due this week on February 25th in class as usual. The problems can be found at the assignments link (always available on the sidebar).
  

• EXAM 1 was Tuesday evening, February 17th at 7:15pm in Duane G2B90 (the Helproom). Solutions to the exam are now posted on the CULearn page. The exams have been graded! The average score was 56, with standard deviation 15.
  
  
• READING: We'll finish up separation of variables, then study the most basic charge distribution, the electric dipole. Read Griffiths' 3.4-4.1.
  
  
• TUTORIALS: This week we have a regular tutorial, Friday (Feb 27) at 4pm at the G2B tutorial bay G2B77. We'll learn a clever technique to find the voltage using separation of variables, then use it to find the multipole expansion for a given distribution. All tutorials are posted on the assignments page.
  
  
• HW SOLUTIONS: Solutions to HW1 - HW5 are posted on our CULearn page.
  
  
• Course home pages from the previous week: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.