THEORETICAL PHYSICS-ELECTRODYNAMICS

PHYSICS 721

Course Description

Electrostatics, magnetostatics, Green functions, boundary value problems, macroscopic media, Maxwell's equations, the stress tensor and conservation laws, electromagnetic waves, wave propagation, dispersion, waveguides, radiation, multipole expansions, diffraction and scattering, special relativity, covariance of Maxwell's equations, Lienard-Wiechert potentials, radiation by accelerated charges. Knowledge of electrodynamics (such asPHYSICS 322) strongly encouraged.

Prerequisties

Graduate/professional standing

Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

Offered

Fall, Spring

Grade Point Average

3.32

-2.46% from Historical

Completion Rate

100%

1.61% from Historical

A Rate

21.43%

-38.63% from Historical

Class Size

21.74% from Historical

2025 Fall Grade Distribution

Instructors (2025 Fall)

Sorted by ratings from Rate My Professors

JEFFREY SCHMIDT

[email protected]

2.9

Rating

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