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PHYS154 HM - Fields and Waves

Credit(s): 3

Instructor(s): Ilton

Offered: Spring

Description: The theory of deformable media. Field equations for elastic and fluid media and for conducting fluids in electromagnetic fields. Particular emphasis on body and surface wave solutions of the field equations.

Prerequisite(s): MATH180 HM  or PHYS064 HM