Electricity and Magnetism

Catalog description

"Static electric and magnetic fields at the advanced level. Topics include electrostatic fields of point charges and continuous charge distributions, Gauss? law, electrostatic potential, conductors, methods for Laplace?s equation including images, separation of variables and multipole expansions, electric polarization, magnetostatic fields, Ampere?s law and magnetization. Review of vector calculus included as needed. Electromagnetic induction introduced as time permits. Three hours of lecture and up to 3 hours of problems. Prerequisites: C or better in PHYS 222 or in PHYS 212, C or better in PHYS 222L or in PHYS 212L, MATH 215, MATH 314 and junior status. Odd fall term only. "