Spring 2025 Physics GR6094 section 001

CLASSICAL FIELDS & WAVES

Call Number 13468
Day & Time
Location
TR 10:10am-11:25am
To be announced
Points 4.5
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Andrei Beloborodov
Type LECTURE
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description Prerequisites: PHYS G6092. This course will study the classical field theories used in electromagnetism, fluid dynamics, plasma physics, and elastic solid dynamics. General field theoretic concepts will be discussed, including the action, symmetries, conservation laws, and dissipation. In addition, classical field equations will be analyzed from the viewpoint of macroscopic averaging and small-parameter expansions of the fundamental microscopic dynamics. The course will also investigate the production and propagation of linear and nonlinear waves; with topics including linearized small-amplitude waves, ordinary and extraordinary waves, waves in a plasma, surface waves, nonlinear optics, wave-wave mixing, solitons, shock waves, and turbulence.
Web Site Vergil
Department Physics
Enrollment 6 students (10 max) as of 4:05PM Saturday, December 21, 2024
Subject Physics
Number GR6094
Section 001
Division Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Open To Engineering:Graduate, GSAS
Section key 20251PHYS6094G001