Nov 10, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book

PHY 221 - Physics III

4 Credits
Offered Fall
Mechanical and electrical examples of damped, forced and resonant oscillations; the mechanical wave equation via Newton’s mechanics; the electromagnetic wave equation via Maxwell’s equations; traveling sound and electromagnetic waves; diffraction and interference, geometrical limit of wave optics. Fourier analysis and other mathematical tools.

Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): MTH 125 - Calculus I , MTH 126 - Calculus II , PHY 121 - Physics I , and PHY 122 - Physics II