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electromagnetic

Course Description: Review of vector calculus; electrostatic fields; Gauss's law and divergence; electric potential; dielectrics and capacitance; Poisson and Laplace equations; charge images; current density and conductors; steady magnetic fields; Biot-Savart and Ampere's laws; curl and Stokes' theorem; magnetic materials and circuits; self and mutual inductance; energy in steady fields, introduction to electromagnetic waves.
Credit hours: 3
Prerequisites: PHYS131
Objectives of the course :

Upon completion of this course, the student will be taught:
• Basic knowledge of static electric and magnetic fields, including Coulomb's law, Gauss's law, Biot-Savart law, Ampere's law, Lorentz force law, Laplace's equation, Poisson's equation, and Faraday's law.
Behavior of electric and magnetic fields in material space and at the interface between two media.
• Solving problems related to polarization, magnetization, and boundary conditions between two media.
• Calculation of static electrostatic and magnetic fields for various charge and current distributions, respectively, in Cartesian, spherical, and cylindrical arrangements.
• Finding energy densities and total energy in the distribution region of static electrostatic and magnetic fields.
• Solve static electro- and magnetostatic boundary value problems in Cartesian, cylindrical, and spherical coordinate systems using Laplace's and Poisson's equations.

Course outputs :
  • Recall the fundamental laws and theories of electric and magnetic fields to solve electromagnetic wave problems.
  • Perform calculations of the electric and magnetic fields in different coordinate systems and their representations.
  • Application of boundary condition problems for electric or magnetic fields across different media.
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  • Last updated: 2026-05-17

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