Overview
Description
General properties of electrostatic and magnetostatic fields; boundary value problems; Maxwell’s equations and conservation theorems; waveguides and resonant cavities.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate understanding of advanced topics in electrostatics and magnetostatics theory. Topics include time-dependent electric and magnetic fields, and Maxwell’s equations, conservation of electric charge, energy, and linear and angular momentum in electrodynamics, plane wave solutions of Maxwell’s equations and their application to optics.
- further develop their problem solving skills in electromagnetic theory using advanced mathematical methods.
- apply and refine their skill in practical applications of advanced mathematical methods including vector and tensor calculus, the Levi-Civita pseudo tensor, the Dirac delta function, the Green function, and the Gauss, Stokes, Green and Helmholtz theorems.
- demonstrate improved practical mathematical physics skills in solving partial differential equations via the variable separation method, Fourier series, and series expansion over special functions such as Legendre polynomials, Bessel functions, and spherical harmonics.