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DETAILEDCOURSEDESCRIPTION CourseNumberPHYS432 CourseTitleElectricityandMagnetism TargetaudienceThecourseisdesignedforseniorlevelphysicsmajors;however otherengineeringandsciencemajorswiththecorrectpreparationarevery welcome.Nb:thisisacoursethatisNOTmandatoryforallPhysicsMajors. Typically,butnotalways,thisisacoursewhoseaudienceiscomposedbystudents whointendtopursuegraduatestudiesaftertheBSdegree. PrerequisitesPHYS431 CatalogdescriptionMethodsofcalculationinelectrostaticsandmagnetostatics. Conservationlaws.Potentials.Electromagneticwaves.Relativisticelectrodynamics. Radiation.Thiscourseistargetedtowardstudentswhointendtopursuegraduate studiesinphysics. (RE)Prerequisite(s):431. Expectedpreviousknowledge Concepts. ElectricityandMagnetismatthelevelofPHY431.Relativityat thelevelofPHY312.WavesatthelevelofPHY232orPHY 136orPHY138 Skills Familiaritywithcalculusandcalculusconcepts(vectors,vector, differentialandintegralcalculus),linearalgebra(matrices, determinantsetc.),differentialequations(ODE,PDE),vector analysis(i.e.Div,Curl,Grad,DivandStokes’Theorems). CourseObjectives Gain deeper understanding of Electricity and Magnetism. Consolidate the understanding of fundamental concepts in Electricity and Magnetism more rigorouslyasneededforfurtherstudiesinphysics,engineeringandtechnology. Advance skills and capability for formulating and solving problems. Expand and exercisethe students’ physical intuition and thinkingprocess through theunderstandingofthetheoryandapplicationofthisknowledgetothesolutionof practicalproblems. Increasemathematicalandcomputationalsophistication. Learn and apply advanced mathematical techniques and methods of use to physicists in solving problems. Develop some capabilities for numerical/computational methods, in ordertoobtainsolutionstoproblemstoodifficultorimpossibletosolveanalytically. SampleText“IntroductiontoElectrodynamics”,byDavidJ.Griffiths,Pearson MinimumMaterialCovered ElectrostaticsandMagnetostatics:Integrationtechniquesforcomputingfields (lineintegrals,surfaceintegralsandvolumeintegralsindetail).Boundaryvalue problems.Laplace’sandPoisson’sequations.Methodofimages.Solutionsof boundaryvalueproblemswithmethodofseparationofvariablesetc.. Conservationlaws:Continuityequation,Poynting’stheorem Electromagneticwaves:wavesinvacuum,wavesinmatter,absorptionand dispersion,dispersionrelations,waveguides Potentialsandfields:scalarandvectorpotentials,gaugetransformations (CoulombandLorentzgauge),retardedpotentials ElectrodynamicsandRelativity:Lorentztransformations,Minkowskispace‐time anditsmetric,relativisticelectrodynamics(magnetismasarelativisticeffect, tensors,ElectromagneticFieldtensor,Maxwell’sequationsandequationsforthe fieldsintensornotation) Radiation:Radiationbypointcharges,Lienard‐Wiechertpotentials,fieldsof movingpointcharges,antennas