Graduate Curriculum Committee Course Proposal Form

Graduate Curriculum Committee

Course Proposal Form for

Courses Numbered 5000 and Higher

Note: Before completing this form, please carefully read the accompanying instructions.

1. Course Prefix and Number: 2. Date:

3. Requested Action (check only one box):

New Course
Revision of Active Course
Revision & Unbanking of a Banked Course
x / Renumbering of an Existing Course from
from / 6310 / to / 7310

4. Justification (assessment or accreditation based) for new course or course revision or course renumbering:

Following a review of Graduate level courses, it was determined that this course should be taken by upper level Masters’ students and PhD students only. Therefore, it is necessary to raise the level of this course.

5. Course description exactly as it should appear in the next catalog:

7310. Electrodynamics II (3) Formerly PHYS 6310 P: PHYS 6300. Advanced electromagnetic theory and related numerical methods, including plane wave and wave propagation, waveguides and resonant cavities, radiating systems, multipole fields and radiation, scattering and diffraction, dynamics of relativistic particles, collisions between charged particles, finite-difference methods, moment methods, and finite element method.

6. If this is a course revision, briefly describe the requested change:

N/A

7. Graduate Catalog Page Number from current Graduate catalog:

104


8. Course Credit:

Lecture Hours / Weekly / OR / Per Term / Credit Hours / 3 / s.h.
Lab / Weekly / OR / Per Term / Credit Hours / s.h.
Studio / Weekly / OR / Per Term / Credit Hours / s.h.
Practicum / Weekly / OR / Per Term / Credit Hours / s.h.
Internship / Weekly / OR / Per Term / Credit Hours / s.h.
Other (e.g., independent study) Please explain.
Total Credit Hours / 3 / s.h.
20

9. Anticipated annual student enrollment:

10. Affected Degrees or Academic Programs:

Degree(s)/Course(s) / Current
Catalog Page / Changes in Degree Hours
MS – Medical Physics / 94-95 / None
PhD – Biomedical Physics / 95 / None

11. Overlapping or Duplication with Affected Units or Programs:

x / Not Applicable
Notification & response from affected units is attached

12. Approval by the Council for Teacher Education (required for courses affecting teacher education programs):

x / Not Applicable
Applicable and CTE has given their approval.

13.  Statements of Support:

a. Staff

x / Current staff is adequate
Additional Staff is needed (describe needs in the box below):


b. Facilities

x / Current facilities are adequate
Additional Facilities are needed (describe needs in the box below):

c. Library

x / Initial library resources are adequate
Initial resources are needed (in the box below, give a brief explanation and an estimate for the cost of acquisition of required initial resources):

d. Computer resources

x / Unit computer resources are adequate
Additional unit computer resources are needed (in the box below, give a brief explanation and an estimate for the cost of acquisition):
x / ITCS Resources are not needed
The following ITCS resources are needed (put a check beside each need):
Mainframe computer system
Statistical services
Network connections
Computer lab for students
Approval from the Director of ITCS attached

14.  Course information: see Instructions for Completing the Graduate Curriculum Committee Course Proposal Form for more detail

a.  TEXTBOOK(S): author(s), name, publication date, publisher, and city/state/country

Classical Electrodynamics by John D. Jackson,, 3rd edition, (John Wiley & Sons, New York, New York 1998).

Numerical Techniques in Electromagnetics by M. N. O. Sadiku, 2nd Edition (CRC, Boca Raton, LA, 2001)

b.  Course objectives student –centered behavioral objectives for the course –

To educate graduate physics students in the interactions of particles and fields, interactions of radiation with matter, and radiative collision processes. The student will

1.  Discuss electrodynamics at a theoretically sophisticated level

2.  Describe in conceptual and mathematical detail the production of electromagnetic waves in Maxwell’s formalism.

3.  Determine mathematical solutions to advanced problems in electricity and magnetism.

4.  Discuss and apply the language and major concepts of electromagnetic theory in forms that are useful for physics research as well as advanced coursework in condensed matter physics, quantum field theory, optical physics, and nuclear physics.

5.  Recognize electromagnetic waves coming from the source free solutions to Maxwell's equations and mathematical origins of electromagnetic radiation coming from accelerated charged particles.

6.  Discuss the classical field theory of electrodynamics including its Poisson bracket structure and Lagrangian formulation.

c.  A course content outline

Plasma physics, special relativity, dynamics of relativistic particles, collisions between charged particles including energy loss and scattering, radiation by moving charges, Bremsstrahlung, radiative beta processes, multipole fields, and scattering and absorption of radiation by bound systems. In addition, the problems we will study will often provide insight into related quantum mechanical problems. I like also to make contact with modern mathematical approaches, especially in mechanics, when these are illuminating for the physics.

d.  A list of course assignments and weighting of each assignment and the grading/evaluation system for determining a grade.

Homework is assigned for each chapter and is due on the first lecture one week from the finishing date of that chapter (e.g. If a chapter is finished on a Monday lecture, then the assignment for that chapter will be due on the lecture of next Monday if that is not a holiday). No credit will be given for homework turned in after the deadline. NO EXCEPTIONS. (Any abnormal similarities between the answers to the homework will be seriously questioned, and reduction in credit may apply.)

Mid-term Test and Final Exam: There will be one take-home mid-term test and one take-home final exam. They will be mainly based on the materials presented in lectures, examples in the textbook and homework assignments.

Students will be graded on a 100 point scale.

Final grade, as a percentage of the total number of points:

80 – 100 A

60 – 79 B

40 – 59 C

Below 40 F

These numbers may be lowered, depending upon numerous factors, but will not be raised (i.e., if you have an 80 average you are assured of at least an A). The course grades are not curved.

In a typical class of 15 students, those receiving a grade of A are the top 30%, B are the middle 40% to 50% and C are the lower 10 to 20% and F are the lowest 10%.

Evaluation Scheme: homework - 30%; mid-term test - 35%; final exam – 35%

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