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PHYS 524 - Classical Electrodynamics

Course Career Graduate
Units 3
Approved Hours 3-0-0
Fee index 6
Faculty Science
Department Physics
Typically Offered either term

Description
Physical basis and foundations of Maxwell’s equations, time-varying fields and conservation laws, wave equation and Green’s functions, scattering and diffraction, spacetime and electromagnetism, energy-momentum of electromagnetic fields, covariant form of relativistic particle dynamics, radiation sources and damping, relativistic treatment of radiation. Knowledge of electrodynamics at the level of PHYS 481 or equivalent is required.