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| Classical Physics II | |||
| CLASSIC PHY II | |||
| CLASS CODE: | PH 333 | CREDITS: 3 | |
| DIVISION: | PHYSICAL SCIENCE & ENGINEERING | ||
| DEPARTMENT: | PHYSICS | ||
| GENERAL EDUCATION: | This course does not fulfill a General Education requirement. | ||
| CATALOG DESCRIPTION: | Electricity, Magnetism, and Light | ||
| DESCRIPTION: | Inquiry-based theoretical physics focused on conceptual understanding of electromagnetism and optics. | ||
| TOPICS: | How Maxwell Changed our World View; Vector Analysis; Review of Physics 220; Maxwell’s Equations in Vector Form; Application of Maxwell’s Equations; Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves; Waves in Bounded Regions; Poynting Vector; Polarization, Reflection and Refraction of light at a plane boundary; Coherence and Interference, Multiple-Beam interference; Fabry-Perot interferometer; Diffraction, Optics of Solids. | ||
| OBJECTIVES: | The student will be able to: a) describe the historical development of the philosophy, observations, and theories of electromagnetism; b) explain the meaning of Maxwell’s Equations expressed in vector form; c)explain how application of boundary conditions to the electric and magnetic fields of an electromagnetic wave lead to reflection, refraction properties of light; d)discuss interference and diffraction. |
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| REQUIREMENTS: | Homework assignments, exams, research paper, group project and presentation, short papers. | ||
| PREREQUISITES: | Ph 121, 123, 220, Physics 332, Math 113 | ||
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| EFFECTIVE DATE: | August 2001 | ||