Sections
PHYS 3053 - Honors Electricity and Magnetism I
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Course last offered |
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Fall 2018/19 |
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Instructor(s) |
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GUO Qinghua, Rolf Walter LORTZ |
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No. of credits |
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4 |
Teaching Pattern
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Duration of course: about 13 weeks
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Lecture hour(s) per week: 4
Content
This course is a more in-depth version of PHYS 3033.
- Electrostatics: electric charge and fields, Coulomb's law, Gauss'Law, multipoles, Laplace equation
- Magnetostatics: currents, magnetic fields and vector potential, Biot-Savart Law, Faraday's law, magnetic materials
- Maxwell’s equations
- Interaction of electromagnetic fields with matter, polarization and magnetization, bound charges and bound currents, relative permittivity and permeability, ferromagnets
Remarks
- Exclusion(s): PHYS 3033
- Prerequisite(s): PHYS 1114 (Grade B- or above) or PHYS1154 (Grade B- or above) (prior to 2014-15) or PHYS 1314