ABSTRACT
Very few books at the undergraduate level on electric and magnetic fields include a numerical approach to the solution of field problems. While it may not be possible to give a complete account of this aspect of the subject at the undergraduate level, a few lectures devoted toward this end, in the author’s opinion, are worthwhile. The general trend to use digital computers for the solution of electrical problems will justify spending a little time on the numerical techniques. Moreover, when boundaries of irregular shape are met with, since exact analytical solutions will not exist, approximate solutions are easily obtained by the numerical techniques.
