Ph 432 Electricity and Magnetism II
Advanced study of electricity and magnetism covering field and potential of charge arrays, electrostatic field energy, images, multipoles, Laplace's equation, Biot-Savart and Ampere's laws, magnetic field energy, vector potential, displacement current, dielectrics and their microscopic models, electromagnetic wave equations, boundary conditions, energy radiation, magnetic materials and their microscopic models. This is the second course in a sequence of two:
Ph 431 and
Ph 432. Expected preparation:
Ph 312 and
Mth 256.
Slash Listed Courses
Also offered for graduate-level credit as
Ph 532 and may be taken only once for credit.