Here is a 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 onVectors 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 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 (MathML version)(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