{{page>wiki:headers:hheader}} ===== E & M Activities ===== * See a [[:courses:start|sample syllabus]] of how we order these materials. * Tips on how to [[whitepapers:sequences:start#E_&_M_sequences|sequence activities]] with lecture and class discussion. ==== Charge/Current Density ==== * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfchargedensity|Acting Out Charge Densities]] * [[courses:activities:vfact:vftotalcharge|Total Charge]] * Charge density and delta functions -- SLAC Lightening Strike * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfcurrentdensity|Acting Out Current Density]] ==== Electric Fields and Potential ($V$, $\vec E$) ==== Activities to help students learn how to calculate or visualize electrostatic fields and their potentials: * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfvpoints|Electrostatic Potential Due to Two Point Charges]] * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfdrawquadrupole|Drawing Equipotential Surfaces]] * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfvisv|Visualizing Electrostatic Potentials]] * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfdrawfield|Drawing Electric Field Vectors]] * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfvring|Electrostatic potential due to a ring of charge]] * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfering|Electric field due to a ring of charge]] * [[courses:activities:vfact:vffluxconcept|The Concept of Flux]] * [[courses:activities:vfact:vffluxcalculation|Calculating Flux]] * [[courses:activities:vfact:vffluxem|Visualizing Electric Flux]] * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfmurdermm|Finding Potentials from Fields - The Murder Mystery Method]] * [[courses:activities:vfact:vflaplacerelax|Relaxation Technique for Solving Laplace's Equation]] ==== Magnetic Fields and Forces ($\vec A$, and $\vec B$) ==== Activities to help students learn how to calculate or visualize magnetostatic fields and their potentials: * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfaring|Magnetic vector potential due to a spinning ring of charge]] * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfbring|Magnetic field due to a spinning ring of charge]] ==== Energy ==== * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfveuf|Concept Map: VEUF]] * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfemenergy|Electrostatic Energy]] ==== Maxwell's Equations ==== Activities to help students understand the integral and/or differential versions of Maxwell's equations: * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfgauss|Gauss' Law]] * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfampere|Ampere's Law]] * Conceptually Understanding Conductors * Designing an Electric Field ==== Boundary Conditions ==== Activities about the boundary conditions on electrostatic and magnetostatic fields across surface charges and currents: * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfebound|Continuity of the Electric Field at Boundaries]] * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfbbound|Continuity of the Magnetic Field at Boundaries]] ==== Conductors ==== Activities about conductors: * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfconductors|Conductors]] ==== Plane Waves ==== Activities to help student's visualize electromagnetic plane waves: * [[courses:activities:emact:emplanewave|Visualizing Plane Waves]] * [[courses:activities:emact:emscalarplanewave|Scalar Plane Waves]] * [[courses:activities:emact:emplanewaveem|Visualizing Electromagnetic Plane Waves]] * [[courses:activities:emact:emplanewavecompare|Comparing Representations of Plane Waves]] ===== Related Mathematical Ideas ===== * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfstartrek|The Distance Between Two Points - Star Trek]] * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfbasisvectors|Curvilinear basis vectors]] * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfdrvectorcurvi|dr in Curvilinear Coordinates]] * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfdadvcurvi|Integrating in Curvilinear Coordinates: Finding dA and dV]] * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfpowerseriescoeff|Calculating Coefficients for a Power Series]] * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfpowerapprox|Approximating Functions with a Power Series (visualization)]] * Charge density and delta functions * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfgradient|Visualizing Gradient]] * [[courses:activities:vfact:vffluxem|Visualizing Flux]] * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfdivergence|Visualizing Divergence]] * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfcurlvis|Visualizing Curl]] * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfpederivmach|Internal Energy of the "Derivative Machine"]] * [[courses:activities:vfact:vf1dpdm|Derivative Machine]] * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfdsscalar|Scalar Distance, Area, and Volume Elements]] * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfpumpkin|Pineapples and Pumpkins]] * [[courses:activities:vfact:vfsurfheight|Isoheights on Surfaces]]