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Ghost117
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Hi everyone, I'm looking at MIT's opencourseware as a template. It seems the same textbook was used for Electromagnetism 1 and 2, even the same chapters, which seems really odd.
For example, both EM 1 (in 2006) and EM 2 (current year 2014) studied Vector Analysis and Electrostatics from the first 2 chapters of Griffiths... What's going on here? Why is EM 2 covering the same stuff as EM 1, from the same textbook no less?
Compare the readings of EM1 from 2006, using Griffiths 3rd edition
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-022-physics-ii-electricity-and-magnetism-fall-2006/readings/
To the course outline of EM 2 from 2014, using Griffiths 4th edition
http://web.mit.edu/8.07/www/geninfo/inf1-f14.pdf
In UofT, for calculus 1A and 1B we used the same textbook (Stewart), but not the same chapters obviously. The same book is even used for Calc II, but it continues forward from Chapter 10...
So this isn't making any sense to me, apparently EM 2 is restudying the same stuff from EM 1...p.s. I just checked, even the rest of the chapters are the same! EM1 from 2006 is actually covering more material then EM 2 today
For example, both EM 1 (in 2006) and EM 2 (current year 2014) studied Vector Analysis and Electrostatics from the first 2 chapters of Griffiths... What's going on here? Why is EM 2 covering the same stuff as EM 1, from the same textbook no less?
Compare the readings of EM1 from 2006, using Griffiths 3rd edition
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-022-physics-ii-electricity-and-magnetism-fall-2006/readings/
To the course outline of EM 2 from 2014, using Griffiths 4th edition
http://web.mit.edu/8.07/www/geninfo/inf1-f14.pdf
In UofT, for calculus 1A and 1B we used the same textbook (Stewart), but not the same chapters obviously. The same book is even used for Calc II, but it continues forward from Chapter 10...
So this isn't making any sense to me, apparently EM 2 is restudying the same stuff from EM 1...p.s. I just checked, even the rest of the chapters are the same! EM1 from 2006 is actually covering more material then EM 2 today
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