Ph 531 Electricity and Magnetism I
Advanced study of electricity and magnetism covering field and potential of charge arrays, electrostatic field energy, images, multipoles, Laplace's equation, Biot-Savart and Ampere's laws, magnetic field energy, vector potential, displacement current, dielectrics and their microscopic models, electromagnetic wave equations, boundary conditions, energy radiation, magnetic materials and their microscopic models. This is the first course in a sequence of two:
Ph 531 and
Ph 532.
Slash Listed Courses
Also offered for undergraduate-level credit as
Ph 431 and may be taken only once for credit.