Course Description

76-418 Advanced Electromagnetic Theory F(3-0) [0.50]

Radiation from localized charge-current distributions (atoms, molecules, nuclei, antennae), electromagnetic potentials,gauge transformations, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms, multipole expansions of electrostatic and magnetostatic fields, and a selection of topics from: radiation damping, Lorentz electron theory, wave guides, plasmas, relativistic electrodynamics, radiation scattering.

Prerequisites: 76-247.

Concurrent: 76-340.

Course Profile

1998-99 Undergraduate Calendar