Table of Contents
Lecture Notes
Lecture Notes
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Some of the images in the lecture notes are courtesy of MIT Press and Krieger Publishing. These images are used with permission.
Images courtesy of MIT Press are from the textbook:
Melcher, James. Continuum Electromechanics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1981. ISBN: 026213165X.
Images courtesy of Krieger Publishing are from the textbook:
Zahn, Markus. Electromagnetic Field Theory: A Problem Solving Approach. Malabar, FL: Krieger Pub. Co., 2003. ISBN: 1575242354.
| WEEK # | TOPICS |
|---|---|
| 1 | Review of Maxwell's Equations (PDF - 1.6 MB) |
| 2 | Continuum Electromechanics (Melcher) – Section 2.16 Flux-Potential Relation for Laplacian Fields (PDF) Continuum Electromechanics (Melcher) – Sections 4.1-4.3 (PDF) |
| 3 | Continuum Electromechanics (Melcher) – Sections 2.18-2.19 (PDF) |
| 4 | Continuum Electromechanics (Melcher) – Sections 7.1-7.8 Laws, Approximations, and Relations of Fluid Mechanics (PDF - 1.6 MB) Stress Tensors (PDF) |
| 5 | Electromechanical Dynamics |
| 6 | Continuum Electromechanics (Melcher) – Sections 7.9-8.9 Pressure–Velocity Relations for Inviscid, Incompressible Fluids (PDF) |
| 7 | Electrohydrodynamic and Ferrohydrodynamic Instabilities (PDF - 1.1 MB) |
| 8 | Continuum Electromechanics (Melcher) – Section 8.12 Plasma Stability (z-θ pinch) (PDF) |
| 9 | Continuum Electromechanics (Melcher) – Section 8.13 Stability of a Perfectly Conducting Spherical Drop (Rayleigh's Limit) (PDF) |
| 10 | Stability of a Perfectly Conducting Spherical Drop (Rayleigh's Limit) (cont.) |
| 11 | Stability of a Perfectly Conducting Spherical Drop (Rayleigh's Limit) (cont.) |
| 12 | Continuum Electromechanics (Melcher) – Section 8.18 Smoothly Inhomogeneous Systems (PDF) |