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PHYS-3405: Intermediate Electricity and Magnetism

Description: Electrostatics, multipoles, Laplaces equation, and dielectric media. Magnetostatics, magnetic media, and electromagnetic induction. Maxwells equations, electromagnetic energy, waves, and radiation. Must meet pre-requisites and have a grade of C or better in each of 2305-2306 sequence.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: (MATH-2214 or MATH-2214H) and PHYS-2305 and PHYS-2306 and PHYS-2504

Required By: PHYS-3406, PHYS-4634

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 6

Average GPA: 2.82 (rounds to B-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 19.06%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.64%

James A Gray202429.3%31.7%32.9%3.9%1.7%0.6%2.826

Grade Distribution Over Time

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Fall 2019Fall 2020Fall 2021Fall 2022Fall 2023Fall 2024Term050% W