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PHY 3030: Electrodynamics (4 cr.)

This course offers a rigorous treatment of classical electrodynamics following PHY 2021 Electromagnetism. Topics include: Electrostatics; magnetostatics, quasi-stationary phenomena, and Maxwell's equation; Special mathematical methods for problems in electrostatics; Electromagnetic waves and boundary value problems; Potentials and gauge transformations; Radiation from charge and current distributions, including multipole expansion of the field, and the field of moving charges. Lorentz transformations and special relativity; Formulation of the field equations and electrodynamics from the action principle; Lagrangian and Hamiltonian forms of theory. Prerequisite: The same as that for PHY 3010 plus PHY 2021 Electromagnetism.

Take MATH.2030, MATH.2021, PHY.2010, PHY.2021.

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