ELECTROMAGNETISM CLASS PROJECTS - SPRING 2001 and 2000

This is a collection of class (Electromagnetic Theory II) projects undertaken by the students on topics related to contemporary applications of the propagation of electromagnetic waves in various media. The students and their topics are listed below:

Reyhan Ricklefs MAGNETIC MONOPOLES : are they real? ... monopole, monopole, wherefore art thou monopole?

Isaac Smith WIRELESS MANIA - crucial technology or capitalist hype? do you really NEED to check you stocks while in the dentist's chair?

Conrad Miller ASTRONOMICAL SPECTRAL LINES what ARE all those lines????

Tim Woodruff RADIO ASTRONOMY and the OPTICAL & RADIO WINDOWS OF THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE
HELP! We're trapped at the bottom of a 1000 km+ thick layer of gases!!

Kyle Schoener ICE-PENETRATING RADAR and PLASMA PHENOMENA
I wonder what is beneath the ice sheet of Antarctica? And why do I hear Del Rio and Chicago radio stations on my AM radio only at night?


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