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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.

Prerequisites

Graduate/professional standing

Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

Not Reported

Offered

Not Reported

Grade Point Average
3.59

5.17% from Historical

Completion Rate
95.65%

-2.73% from Historical

A Rate
60.87%

70.61% from Historical

Class Size
23

No change from Historical

Cumulative Grade Distribution

Instructors (2026 Summr)

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