PHY 321 - Electricity and Magnetism I Credits: 4

First of two courses aimed at providing a solid grounding in electricity and magnetism. Topics include: electrostatics: Coulomb’s law, Gauss’ law, electric potential, energy and conductors. Electric fields in matter; magnetostatics: Lorentz force, Biot-Savart law, magnetic fields in matter; Maxwell’s equations; radiation by charges. Three hours lecture/week, two hours lab/biweekly. Recommended co-requisite for physics majors: PHY 331.

Prerequisite(s): PHY 221 and PHY 222 and (PHY 301 with minimum grade of C or ELEC 210 with minimum grade of C)