PHY 450 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 551

Credit 3 hrs May not be repeated for additional credit
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation Fall (even yrs.)

Prerequisites - PHY 350 and MATH 325
Restriction by Major -
Restriction by Class -

Equivalent Course(s) - PHY 551
Course History -
Graduate Credit rescinded 4/2015, effective Fall 2015; Course Rotation added 8/2014; Graduate Credit added 7/2011

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