2015-2016 Catalog

PHYS 342 Electromagnetic Fields

Electric fields due to static charges, magnetic fields due to steady currents, fields in matter, Laws of Coulomb, Gauss, Biot-Savart, Ampere, Faraday; scalar and vector potentials; solutions of Laplace's and Poisson's equations. Mathematical emphasis is on the solutions to boundary value problems.

Prerequisite

PHYS 133, PHYS 218; MATH 264

Offered

Fall semester, alternate years

Instructor

Boekelheide