Teaching electromagnetic field theory using differential forms

IEEE Transactions on Education

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 53-68

  Warnick, Karl F ^a,b   Selfridge, Richard H ^a,b   Arnold, David V ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; INTEGRATION; TEACHING; TENSORS; TOPOLOGY; VECTORS;

DIVERGENCE THEOREM; VECTOR STOKES THEOREM;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY;

EID: 0031077141     PISSN: 00189359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/13.554670     Document Type: Article

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