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PHY 551 Electricity and Magnetism II


A brief review of electrostatics and magnetostatics. The following topics will be covered: Faraday’s Law, displacement current, Maxwell’s equations, Poynting vector, plane wave solutions, polarization, wave propagation in dielectrics and conductors, dispersion, Fresnel’s equations, guided waves, dipoleradiation, Lienard-Wiechert potentials, and radiation theory.

Often cross-listed with PHY 450 

Credit 3 hrs
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation

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Department Permission is required

Equivalent Course(s) - PHY 450
Course History -
New Course 4/2015, effective Fall 2015


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