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Valid for year : 2005
 
TFYY67 Classical Electrodynamics, 6 ECTS credits.
/Elektromagnetisk fÀltteori och vÄgutbredning/

For:   Y   YMP  

 

Prel. scheduled hours: 48
Rec. self-study hours: 112

  Area of Education: Science

Subject area: Physics

  Advancement level (A-D): D

Aim:
The course is intended to give a good knowledge about Maxwells equations, methods to solve these equations and various types of electromagnetic systems of interest for technological applications as well as from a fundamental point of view.

Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
TFFY29 Wave physics, TFYY53 Electromagnetic Field Theory, TATM41 Vector Analysis

Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.

Organisation:
Seminars presenting theory and exemplifying excercises.

Course contents:
Multipole moments of charge- and current density distributions, refraction of electromagnetic waves at insulator- and metal surfaces, wave guides, simple radiating systems and radiation from accelerated charged particles, relativistic effects.

Course literature:
Marion-Heald, Classical electromagnetic radiation, Sunders College Publishing, 1995. Collection of problems.

Examination:
Homework problems and written examination
4 p
 



Course language is English.
Department offering the course: IFM.
Director of Studies: Leif Johansson
Examiner: Bo E. Sernelius
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Last updated: 09/26/2004