===== The Geometry of Electrostatics and Magnetostatics: Part 1 =====
Here is a {{workshops:colombia11:colombia11em1.ppt|link to the powerpoint presentation}} from this session.
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The content from the workshop on 17 May 2011:
We started with a small white board question on representations of vectors:
* Representations of Vectors
* A useful reference may be the section on[[bb>book:math:vectors|Vectors]] from our online text on the //Geometry of Vector Calculus//.
Then a small whiteboard question on the dot product:
* Dot Product
* A useful reference may be the section on [[bb>book:math:dot|The Dot Product]] from our online text //on the Geometry of Vector Calculus//.
The following paper may be a helpful resource about the dot product:
* Tevian Dray and Corinne A. Manogue, //The Geometry of the Dot and Cross Products// ([[http://www.math.oregonstate.edu/bridge/mathml/dot+cross.xml|MathML version]])([[http://www.joma.org/?pa=content&sa=viewDocument&nodeId=1156|published version]]), JOMA 6, (June 2006).
The we did a Compare and Contrast Activity about plane waves:
* <html><a href="http://www.physics.oregonstate.edu/portfolioswiki/doku.php?id=activities:main&file=emplanewave">Plane Waves</a></html>
I showed some pictures from two Visualization activities in //Maple//, (//Maple// is a computer algebra software package which you or your institution would need to purchase in order to run these programs):
* <html>
<a href="http://www.physics.oregonstate.edu/portfolioswiki/doku.php?id=activities:main&file=emplanewaveem">Visualizing Electromagnetic Plane Waves</a>
</html>
We ended with this Compare and Contrast Activity on comparing different plane wave representations:
* <html><a href="http://www.physics.oregonstate.edu/portfolioswiki/doku.php?id=activities:main&file=emplanewavecompare">Comparing Representations of Plane Waves</a></html>