Course Information of PHYS 3053 - Honors Electricity and Magnetism I

Current / Most Recent Semester: Fall 2014/15
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Instructor(s): Rolf Walter LORTZ
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Teaching Pattern:
  • duration of course: about 13 weeks
  • lecture hour(s) per week: 4
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    No. of Credit(s): 4
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    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

    • Maxwellˇ¦s equations

    • Interaction of electromagnetic fields with matter, polarization and magnetization, bound charges and bound currents, relative permittivity and permeability, ferromagnets
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    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

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