About 75 students. Co-taught with Prof. Kazdan Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022.

Course Description

Maxwell’s integral and differential equations, boundary conditions, constitutive relations, energy conservation and Poynting vector, wave equation, plane waves, propagating waves and transmission lines, characteristic impedance, reflection coefficient and standing wave ratio, in-depth analysis of coaxial and strip lines, electro- and magneto-quasistatics, simple boundary value problems, correspondence between fields and circuit concepts, energy and forces. Prereq: PHYS 122 or PHYS 124. Prereq or Coreq: MATH 224.