PHYS 4392 Learning Outcomes - F11
Last edit: 21 Aug 2011
At the conclusion of PHYS 4392, the competent student will be able to,
in a time-limited, closed book exam-like setting, and in homework exercises:
- calculate the gradient of scalar functions, and the curl and gradient of vector functions;
- transform integrals using the theorems of Gauss and Stokes;
- calculate the electrostatic potential V(x) from a knowledge of the electroststic electric field
and by using the multipole expansion in tandem with a knowledge of the charge distribution;
- calculate with the differential and integral forms of Gauss' law;
- understand the electrostic properties of conductors;
- use the separation of variables technique to solve Laplace's equations;
- calculate the static electric field and bound charge distributions in dielectrics;
- calculate the magnetic field in vacuum and in magnetic materials for a given current density;
- calculate electromagnetic induction;
- calculate time dependent behavior of electric and magnetic fields using
Maxwell's equation;
- calculate the energy and momentum carried by electromagnetic fields;
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