Sep 04, 2025  
2025-2026 Undergraduate Hill Book 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Hill Book

EGE 221 - Vibrations and Waves

4 Credits
Offered Fall
Formerly EGRE 221. 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  or EGE 203 - Circuits II 
Note: Cross-listed with PHY 221 - Physics III