PEP 643 Electricity and Magnetism I

Electrostatics, boundary value problems, Green’s function techniques, methods of image, inversion, and conformal mapping; multipole expansion. Magnetostatics, vector potential. Maxwell’s equations and conservation laws. Electromagnetic wave propagation in media. Crystal optics. Fall semester. Typical texts: Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics; Landau and Lifshitz, Electrodynamics in Continuous Media.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

PEP 542

Distribution

Department of Physics

Offered

Fall Semester