Implementation Date: 2010
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OPTI 8110. Seminar. (1) Prerequisite: Admission to Optics Ph.D. program. Topics include: discussions and analysis of topics of current interest in optics; effective techniques for making presentations and utilizing library materials; ethical issues in optical science and engineering.; effective techniques for giving presentations; patents and technology transfer; utilizing library materials; and ethical issues in science and engineering. Attendance required. May be repeated for up to 6 hours credit. One semester of seminar is required of all students in the Optics Ph.D. program during each of their first two semesters of residence. After the first two semesters, students are required to attend a minimum number of designated lectures. One to two hours per week. (Fall/Spring)
PHYS 5231. Electromagnetic Theory I. (3)Prerequisites: For physics majors, PHYS 3121 with a grade of C or better; Others: permission of instructor; MATH 2171, MATH 2241. Corequisite: MATH 2242. The first course of a two-semester sequence. Topics considered include electrostatics and magnetostatics in free space and in matter, the motion of charged particles in electric and magnetic fields, capacitance, dielectric theory, field energy, electromagnetic induction and inductance, vector and scalar potentials, magnetic properties of matter. Maxwell’s equations, solutions of Maxwell’s equations in free space and in matter, propagating electromagnetic waves, and boundary value problems. (Spring)