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May 03, 2024
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PHYS 4032 - Electricity and Magnetism 2
Basic concepts of the physics of time dependent electric fields in vacuum and in matter with intensive use of vector analysis as the adequate mathematical tool for quantitative predictions. Topics include: Electromotive force, electromagnetic induction, Maxwell’s equations, Conservation of energy and Poynting vector, conservation of momentum and Maxwell’s stress tensor, conservation of charge and equation of continuity, plane electromagnetic waves in vacuum and matter, wave guides, scalar and vector potentials, gauge transformations, retardation and Lienard-Wiechert potentials, dipole radiation, radiation by point charges, review of special relativity, relativistic notation of electrodynamics.
Requisites: PHYS 4031
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Solve Maxwell’s equations for static and dynamic distributions of charges and currents.
- Understand how the concepts of relativity tie together electric and magnetic phenomena.
- Understand propagation of electromagnetic waves in free space, matter, and wave guides.
- Understand the conceptual underpinnings of electromagnetic radiation.
- Understand the special theory of relativity.
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