NSCI0018: Electromagnetism, Fluids and Waves 22/23

This module aims to further develop the language of elementary vector calculus and waves to understand and address the classical equations of electromagnetism and fluid dynamics. You will cover an introduction to waves, derivations of the wave equations and examining simple wave behaviour, as well as wave phenomena such as diffraction.  This leads into an introduction electrostatics and Gauss’s law, the beginnings of magnetism up to Ampère’s and Faraday’s law and a derivation of Maxwell’s equations, leading to a discussion of electromagnetic waves. Finally the module will have a brief look at fluid mechanics, including the Navier-Stokes (NS) equations as well as concepts of vorticity and rotational/irrotational flow and modelling some classic fluid phenomena.