Memo Date:
Friday, October 31, 2014
To:
College of Engineering
From:
Office of Academic Affairs
Approved On: October 22, 2014
Approved by: Undergraduate Course and Curriculum Committee
Implementation Date: Spring 2015
Approved by: Undergraduate Course and Curriculum Committee
Implementation Date: Spring 2015
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ECGR 3121. Introduction to Electromagnetic Fields. (3) Prerequisites: ECGR 2112 and MATH 2241 with grade of C or above. A study of electric and magnetic fields using the vector formulation. Vector analysis. Electrostatics: potential functions, dielectrics, capacitance, energy, and forces associated with electric fields, solution of Laplance’s and Poisson’s equations. Magnetostatics: vector potential functions, Lorentz forces, hysteresis, magnetic polarization and induction, and energy. Gauss’s, Ampere’s, Faraday’s laws, etc., leading to the Maxwell’s equations.