===== The Geometry of Electrostatics and Magnetostatics: Part 1 ===== Here is a {{workshops:colombia11:colombia11em1.ppt|link to the powerpoint presentation}} from this session. ---- 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: * Plane Waves 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): * Visualizing Electromagnetic Plane Waves We ended with this Compare and Contrast Activity on comparing different plane wave representations: * Comparing Representations of Plane Waves