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Rensselaer Catalog 2025-2026 
    
Rensselaer Catalog 2025-2026

PHYS 6410 - Electrodynamics


Electrostatics and magnetostatics. Relativistic kinematics. Relativistic dynamics. Relativistic theory of classical fields. Electromagnetic waves. Linear and nonlinear materials. EM waves in linear, dispersive media. EM waves in nonlinear materials. Diffraction. Radiation by relativistic particles.  

Prerequisite or Corequisite: Permission of the instructor.

When Offered: SPRING TERM ANNUALLY

Graded: GRADED

Credit Hours: 4