Electromagnetic Theory I

Building on the math methods and intro physics you've already done, this is where you actually learn to *solve* for fields rather than just plug into formulas — Laplace and Poisson equations with real boundary conditions, separation of variables in whichever coordinate system the geometry forces on you, and the careful bookkeeping of how matter responds to those fields. Expect long problem sets from Griffiths where most of the work is setting up the integral or PDE correctly; the exams reward the same. It's the first half of the Maxwell story (statics only — waves and radiation come in PHYS 316), and the vector-calculus fluency you build here is what makes graduate E&M, optics, and most of theoretical physics readable later.