PHYS 295: Electromagnetism

Spring 2025

Instructor:	Seth Major, smajor, 4919, G064
Office Hours:	After each class, Thursdays 2:30 - 4:30 PM
Lectures:	MWF 10:00-10:50 AM Science Center G047
Texts:	Purcell and Morin, Electricity and Magnetism 3rd Edition	Morin, Special Relativity for the enthusiastic beginner Chapter 1 (pdf)	Reading in SR Ellis and Williams, Spacetime diagram intro (5.9 MB)

News:

PS 8 (now v1.1) is posted, fixing a tpyo in 3.
PS 9 is posted. Due April 25.

Course Info:

course syllabus (pdf) (v2.0)

Problem Sets (pdf):

Problem Set 1 (solutions)

Problem Set 2 (solutions)

Problem Set 3 (solutions)

Problem Set 4 (solutions)

Problem Set 5 (solutions)

Problem Set 6 (solutions)

Problem Set 7 (solutions)

Problem Set 8

Problem Set 9

Extras:

Questions from SR classes.

Phet Electric Hockey!

A translation of "Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", Einstein's original 1905 paper on special relativity. Here's a pdf (1.9 MB) of the original article in German pubished in Annalen der Physik.

Class notes (from 2023): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 (Thanks to Sophira for these!)

Last modified 16 April 2025