Physics
ELECTRICITY & MAGNETISM I: COURSE MATERIALS
Contact: Stephanie Chasteen. Email me at stephanie.chasteen@colorado.edu if you would like to be notified when our materials are updated.
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Physics 3310, Principles of Electricity and Magnetism 1, is the first semester of our two-semester sequence of junior-level classical electromagnetism. It uses the tools of vector calculus for solving static and dynamic properties of electromagnetic fields. The topics we will cover include special cases of static charge distributions (electrostatics), time-independent current distributions (magnetostatics), and electric and magnetic properties of matter (dielectrics and magnetic media).
We transformed junior-level E&M using:
- Explicit Learning Goals
- Interactive Lectures
- Transformed Homework problems (including a "bank" of potential HW problems)
- Common Student Difficulties & In-Class Group Activities
- Concept Tests ("Clicker" questions) - download here
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here to download a zip file containing all course materials EXCEPT assessments
Assessments given in the course include:
- Traditional exams
- A new research-based conceptual assessment (the Colorado Upper-Division Electrostatics Assessment, or CUE). Related paper
Please email us at stephanie.chasteen@colorado.edu
to obtain a zip file of all course materials INCLUDING assessments.
Publications and posters
- 2009 PERC Paper (contributed) describing the validation and results from the conceptual assessment (CUE) and 3 semesters of course transformation. Related poster here.
- 2009 PERC Paper (invited) describing insights into student thinking provided by the conceptual assessment (CUE). Related poster here.
- 2008 PERC Paper describing the transformations and results of transformations. Related poster here.
Other Resources
- Instructor Manual of "Best Practices in Clicker Use"
- PER at University of Colorado
- OSU Paradigms Wiki site with similar upper-division activities
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0737118.
Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
