This course serves as a science elective to help students fulfill part of their science requirements. It consists of an introduction to astronomy from a predominantly descriptive perspective; quantitative parts will be included whenever conducive throughout the semester. The level of mathematics required form the student is pre-calculus; without it, the student will not be able to follow the quantitative parts of the course. The topics to be covered will include the night sky, telescopes, the solar system and its formation theories, the life cycle of stars, galaxies and the general structure of the universe, and an introduction to cosmology.

The course presents the principles of electromagnetic (EM) fields and their propagation, power and energy content, and properties in guided and unguided structures. The course begins by review of work and fields, complex numbers and phasors. The course aims to build a bridge between circuit theory and the EM material through the detailed treatment transmission lines. The course then covers vector analysis and orthogonal coordinate systems, and introduces Maxwell’s equations for the general case of time-varying fields. Properties of electrostatic and magnetostatic fields and laws, and electric and magnetic boundary conditions are then studies in details