Dr. Chunlei Qu


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(201) 216-5587

Email cqu5@stevens.edu
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PEP 643: Electricity/Magnetism - I


Tentative Topics:
  • 1. Course overview and mathematical preliminaries
  • 2. Electrostatics, Gauss's law, electric potential, electric energy
  • 3. Laplace equation in cartesian coordinate and 2D polar coordinate
  • 4. Laplace equation in spherical coordinate
  • 5. Laplace equation in cylindrical coordinate
  • 6. Green's function in electrostatics and method of images
  • 7. Multipole expansion
  • 8. Polarization and dielectric permittivity
  • 9. Magnetostatics, Ampere's law
  • 10. Vector potentials and Faraday's law
  • 11. Maxwell equations in vacuum and in matter
  • 12. Conservation laws of electrodynamics
  • 13. Waves propagation, reflection, refraction
  • 14. Modern applications of the electromagnetic theory