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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: 20

Average GPA: 2.72 (B)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 19.54%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 1.90%

Leo E Piilonen201830.2%28.3%21.2%11.0%7.6%1.7%2.638
Giti Khodaparast200919.6%49.4%14.4%0.0%16.7%0.0%2.572
Mark L Pitt201527.1%36.2%28.8%4.2%1.4%2.3%2.854
Royce K P Zia201118.3%45.4%15.9%9.1%0.0%11.4%2.821
James A Gray202327.2%32.1%35.1%3.4%1.4%0.8%2.795

Grade Distribution Over Time