Dr. Baird - All Courses

Teaching Resources

Dr. Baird currently teaches lower-level and upper-level undergraduate classes at West Texas A&M University, including Optics, Electromagnetism, General Physics I & II, and Calculus Physics I & II. In the past, he has taught Graduate Electromagnetism I and II at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

The Textbook "Fundamentals of Human Monocular Depth Perception"

Download the free OER textbook written by Dr. Baird that describes how physics and geometry dictate the manner in which the depth information of the three-dimensional physical world becomes encoded within the two-dimensional images that are captured by the human eye. This book then describes how human vision extracts this information using visual depth perception cues to enable humans to visually experience depth, thereby visually perceiving the physical world as three-dimensional, despite capturing only two-dimensional images in the eye.
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Review Flashcards for General Physics 1

Chapter 1 Review Flashcards - SI Units and Prefixes, Basic Trigonometry of Right Triangles
Chapters 2.1-2.4 Review Flashcards - Vector Addition, Newton's First Law
Chapters 2.5-2.9 Review Flashcards - Newton's Third Law, Gravity, Friction, Tension
Chapter 3 Review Flashcards - Position, Velocity, Acceleration, Newton's Second Law
Chapter 4 Review Flashcards - Constant Acceleration, Projectile Motion
Chapters 5.1-5.5 Review Flashcards - Circular Motion, Orbits
Chapters 5.6-6.3 Review Flashcards - Angular Acceleration, Apparent Weight, Energy, Work
Chapters 6.4-6.8 Review Flashcards - Potential Energy, Work Done By Varying Forces, Power
Chapters 7.1-7.5 Review Flashcards - Momentum, Impulse, Center of Mass
Chapters 7.6-8.3 Review Flashcards - Collisions, Rotational Inertia, Torque
Chapters 8.4-8.9 Review Flashcards - Static Equilibrium, Rolling Motion, Angular Momentum
Chapters 10.1-10.5 Review Flashcards - Deformations, Stress, Strain, Simple Harmonic Motion
Chapters 10.6-10.10 Review Flashcards - Spring-Mass System, Pendulum, Damped, Forced,
Chapters 11.1-11.5 Review Flashcards - Waves, Tranverse vs Longitudinal, Wavelength
Chapters 11.6-11.10 Review Flashcards - Wave Interference, Diffraction, Reflection, Refraction

Review Flashcards for General Physics 2

Chapters 23.1-23.3 Review Flashcards - Wave Models, Reflection, Refraction, Snell's Law
Chapters 23.4, 23.6, 23.7 Review Flashcards - Total Internal Reflection, Image Formation, Plane Mirrors
Chapters 23.8-23.9 Review Flashcards - Imaging Using Spherical Mirrors and Thin Lenses
Chapters 25.1, 25.3 Review Flashcards - Constructive Interference, Destructive Interference, Thin Films
Chapters 25.4-25.6 Review Flashcards - Double-Slit Interference, Gradings, Diffraction
Chapters 16.1-16.3 Review Flashcards - Electric Charge, Conductors, Insulators, Coulomb's Law
Chapter 16.4 Review Flashcards - The Electric Field, Field Line Diagrams
Chapters 16.5, 17.1 Review Flashcards - Charge Moving in a Uniform Electric Field, Electric Potential Energy
Chapters 17.2-17.3 Review Flashcards - Electric Potential/Voltage, Relationships
Chapters 17.5, 18.1, 18.2 Review Flashcards - Capacitors, Electric Current, EMF's, Circuits
Chapters 18.4-18.5 Review Flashcards - Resistors, Kirchhoff's Circuit Rules
Chapters 18.6, 18.7, 18.10 Review Flashcards - Series and Parallel Circuits, RC Circuits
Chapters 19.1-19.4 Review Flashcards - Magnetic Fields and Force, Charge Moving in a Magnetic Field
Chapters 19.6, 19.8, 20.1, 20.3 Review Flashcards - Magnetic Force on and From a Wire, Faraday's Law
Chapters 20.4, 20.7, 20.9 Review Flashcards - Lenz's Law, Eddy Currents, Inductance

Review Flashcards for Calculus Physics 1

Chapters 1 and 3 Review Flashcards - SI Units, Position in 1D, Velocity in 1D, Acceleration in 1D
Chapter 2 Review Flashcards - Adding Vectors, Subtracting Vectors, Multiplying Vectors
Chapter 4 Review Flashcards - Position, Velocity, and Acceleration in 3D, Circular Motion, Projectile Motion
Chapter 5 Review Flashcards - Forces, Newton's First Law, Second Law, and Third Law, Gravity, Tension
Chapter 6 Review Flashcards - Friction, Drag
Chapter 7 Review Flashcards - Work, Kinetic Energy
Chapter 8 Review Flashcards - Potential Energy, Conservation of Energy, Conservative Forces
Chapters 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.6 Review Flashcards - Momentum, Impulse, Center of Mass
Chapters 9.4, 9.5 Review Flashcards - Collisions, Conservation of Momentum
Chapter 10 Review Flashcards - Rotational Motion, Rotational Inertia, Torque
Chapter 11 Review Flashcards - Angular Momentum, Rolling Motion
Chapter 12 Review Flashcards - Static Equilibrium, Deformations, Stress, Strain
Chapter 15 Review Flashcards - Simple Harmonic Motion, Mass-Spring Systems, Pendulums
Chapters 13.1 to 13.4 Review Flashcards - Universal Gravitation, Gravitational Potential Energy, Orbits

Graduate Electromagnetism I Lecture Notes

Lecture 1 - Coulomb's law, Gauss's law, electric potential, capacitance
Lecture 2 - Surface charge density, Green functions, energy density, computational approaches
Lecture 3 - Method of images, point charge in the presence of a sphere
Lecture 4 - Fourier series, Laplace equation in rectangular coordinates, Laplace equation in polar coordinates
Lecture 5 - Laplace equation in spherical coordinates, Legendre polynomials, azimuthal symmetry
Lecture 6 - Spherical harmonics, Laplace equation in cylindrical coordinates
Lecture 7 - Green functions in spherical coordinates
Lecture 8 - Multipole expansions
Lecture 9 - Electrostatic fields in dielectrics, energy in dielectrics
Lecture 10 - Biot-Savart law, Ampere's law, magnetic force, vector potential
Lecture 11 - Magnetic dipole fields, magnetostatics in magnetic material
Lecture 12 - Magnetostatics sample problems, Faraday's law of induction
Lecture 13 - Maxwell's equations, wave equation, potentials of electrodynamics
Lecture 14 - Quasistatics, Green functions for the wave equation, conservation of energy

Graduate Electromagnetism I Supplemental Notes

Mathematical Reference for Electrodynamics
Green's Function Method Step-by-Step
Lecture 4 Supplemental Notes
Electric Multipole Plots
Summary of Electrostatics with Dielectrics
Material Responses
Magnetostatics Methods
Magnetostatic Equations Summary
Magnetic Mirrors, the Ionosphere and the Magnetosphere
The Uniqueness of Maxwell's Equations
Helmholtz Decomposition of Vector Fields
Alternate Potentials

Graduate Electromagnetism II Lecture Notes

Lecture 1 - Maxwell equations, plane vectors, polarization, Stokes parameters, Jones vector, reflection, refraction
Lecture 2 - Complex permmitivity, resonant absorption, conductivity, plasma frequency
Lecture 3 - Superposition of waves, group velocity, pulse spreading, dispersion, Kramers-Kronig relation
Lecture 4 - Fields at the surface of an imperfect conductor, waveguide equations
Lecture 5 - Rectangular waveguides, cutoff Frequency, resonant cavities, Q-factor
Lecture 6 - Radiation, long-wavelength approximation, far-field waves, dipole radiation
Lecture 7 - Linear antennas
Lecture 8 - Long-wavelength scattering, polarization-dependent cross-sections
Lecture 9 - Scattering by a conducting sphere, atmospheric scattering
Lecture 10 - Galilean relativity, ether, Einstein's postulates
Lecture 11 - Einstein's principle of relativity, Lorentz transformations, Four-vectors
Lecture 12 - Velocity addition in special relativity, relativistic momentum and energy
Lecture 13 - Covariant geometry, covariant Maxwell's equations

All Jackson Electrodynamics Homework Solutions