Transfer Student Courses in Applied Physics (Division 320)

Fall Term, 1999 (September 8 - December 22, 1999)

To see what Transfer Student courses have been added or changed in Applied Physics this week go to What's New This Week.

Section 001.

Instructor(s): Linda Katehi (katehi@umich.edu)

Prerequisites & Distribution: Physics 438 or EECS 330. (3). (Excl). (BS). CAEN lab access fee required for non-Engineering students.

Credits: (3).

Lab Fee: CAEN lab access fee required for non-Engineering students.

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

Maxwell's equations, constitutive relations and boundary conditions. Potentials and the representation of electromagnetic fields. Uniqueness, duality, equivalence, reciprocity and Babinet's theorems. Plane, cylindrical and spherical waves. Waveguides and elementary antennas. The limiting case of electro- and magneto-statics.

Section 001.

Instructor(s): Duncan Steel (dst@umich.edu)

Prerequisites & Distribution: Permission of instructor. (3). (Excl). (BS). CAEN lab access fee required for non-Engineering students.

Credits: (3).

Lab Fee: CAEN lab access fee required for non-Engineering students.

Course Homepage: No Homepage Submitted.

Wave packets, wave equations, the linear operators of quantum mechanics; Schrödinger theory; bound state problems; spherical harmonics; transformation theory and Dirac notation; stationary state perturbation theory; WKB approximation, Rayleigh, Schrödinger and Wigner-Brillouin expansions; electron spin, spin-orbit coupling and atomic spectra; angular momentum coupling; Clebsch-Gordan coefficients; general rotations in space; spherical tensor operators; systems of identical particles and the two-electron atom; variational methods; the He atom.