Electromagnetic Theory

3.00 credits · Undergraduate

Prereq: PHYS 3101; 3 credits from PHYS 2251, MATH 2121; or permission of the Department This course introduces the following topics: electromagnetic wave equations in vacuum and materials; conservation of energy, momentum, and angular momentum for electromagnetic fields; retarded potentials and the electromagnetic fields of moving point charges; radiation by oscillating electric and magnetic dipoles and accelerating point charges; and the relativistic formulation of Maxwell's equations. (Format: Lecture 3 Hours)