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PHYS 5231. Electromagnetic Theory I. (3)
Prerequisites: For physics majors, PHYS 3121 with a grade of C or
better; Others: permission of instructor; MATH 2171, MATH 2241.
Corequisite: MATH 2242. The first course of a twosemester sequence.
Topics considered include electrostatics and magnetostatics in free
space and in matter, the motion of charged particles in electric and
magnetic fields, capacitance, dielectric theory, field energy,
electromagnetic induction and inductance, vector and scalar potentials,
magnetic properties of matter. Maxwell’s equations, solutions of
Maxwell’s equations in free space and in matter, propagating
electromagnetic waves, and boundary value problems. (Spring)
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