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Advanced Electromagnetism
PHYSICS 232

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Description

Maxwell's equations, conservation laws, Green's functions, time-dependent solutions and radiation, scattering and diffraction, and gauge and Lorentz invariance.   Time permitting:  negative refractive index materials and radiation from rapidly accelerating charges.

School Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits 4
Cross Reg

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Department Physics
Course Component Lecture
Subject Physics
Grading Basis FAS Letter Graded
General Education N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data N/A
Divisional Distribution Science & Engineering & Applied Science
Course Level Primarily for Graduate Students