PHYSICS 210A · PHYS 210AElectromagnetic Theory
Physics · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Boundary value problems in electrostatics and magnetostatics. Multipole expansions; dielectrics and macroscopic media. Maxwell equations and conservation laws. Wave guides and resonators; simple radiating systems.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
PHYSICS 210A
- PHYSICS 226EParticle Astrophysics: Exploring Earliest and Extreme Universe
- PHYSICS 250Introduction to Acceleration of Charged Particles
- EPS SCI 240Space Plasma Physics
3 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 3 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.