PHY 803
Electromagnetic Theory
3
Course Description
Electrostatic potential problems.
Course Outline
Electrostatic potential problems; Poisson and Laplace's equation method of images; Green's theorem; multiple expansions; Magnetic fields; Stokes theorem; vector potential; Electromagnetic Maxwell's equation; Propagation of electromagnetic waves in different ionized and non-ionized media; phase velocity; group velocity and pulse propagation; attenuation; refraction; energy propagation and transfer; polarization and dispersion; Green function methods; diffraction theory; simple radiating systems; Lagrangian derivation of Maxwell's equations and the covariant structure of electromagnetism