PHYS 4307
Electromagnetic Radiation
Electromagnetic wave propagation in a vacuum, dielectrics, conductors, and ionized gases, reflection, refraction, polarization at the plane boundary between two media; waveguide and transmission line propagation; dipole and quadrupole radiation fields; antenna systems. Electromagnetic mass, radiation pressure. Tensor notation, transformation of the electromagnetic fields.
Prerequisites & course information
Prerequisite(s): PHYS 3308 , PHYS 3801 , PHYS 3807 and PHYS 3808 (except for Mathematics and Physics Double Honours students), or permission of the Department. Lectures three hours a week.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027