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Undergraduate Catalog 2019-2020 
    
Undergraduate Catalog 2019-2020 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PHYS 447 - Electromagnetics I

3 cr.


(Prerequisite: PHYS 270/PHYS 270L ; pre- or co-requisite: PHYS 350 )

Vector calculus, electrostatics (Coulomb’s law, E-fields), Gauss’s law, Maxwell equations, Gauss’s law, potentials, electric dipoles, Energy density in electrostatic fields, Electric fields in material space, dielectrics; Boundary conditions, Poisson’s, Laplace’s equations; Uniqueness theorem, resistance and capacitance, method of images, Magnetostatics, Biot-Savart’s Law, magnetic forces, vector potentials, magnetic flux density.  (Credit cannot be earned for PHYS 447 and EE 447 .)