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Theoretical Physics-Electrodynamics

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Typically OfferedFall; Spring
StudentsGraduate, basic
Credits3.00

Electrostatics, magnetostatics, Green functions, boundary value problems, macroscopic media, Maxwell's equations, the stress tensor and conservation laws, electromagnetic waves, wave propagation, dispersion, waveguides, radiation, multipole expansions, diffraction and scattering, special relativity, covariance of Maxwell's equations, Lienard-Wiechert potentials, radiation by accelerated charges. Knowledge of electrodynamics (such as PHYSICS 322) strongly encouraged.

Prerequisites: Graduate/professional standing

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SecInstructorTimePlace
001Jan EgedalMWF 11:00 am - 11:50 am2120 Chamberlin