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ECE 360 Schedule

Date Text Pages Topic Notes Homework

Electrostatics
4-Jan Introduction      
6-Jan "Vectors, Vector Operators" Notes HW1 (due 1/14)  
Problems in Chapter 4    
8-Jan "4-1, 4-2" "Vectors, Maxwell Equations"      

11-Jan "4-3, 4-4" Gauss's Law Notes    
Coaxial cable example    
13-Jan "4-5, 4-6, 4-7" "Electric Potential, material properties"      
15-Jan 4-8 Dielectric Materials   HW2 (due 1/21)  

18-Jan Holiday - no class      
20-Jan "4-9, 4-10, 4-11" "Capacitance and Energy, boundary conditions"   HW3 (due 2/1)  
22-Jan examples      

Magnetostatics
25-Jan "5-2, 5-4" Ampere's Law Notes    
27-Jan 5-8 "Ampere's Law, Magnetic Vector Potential"   HW4 (due 2/4)  
29-Jan Class Cancelled      

Time-Varying Fields
1-Feb "Inductance, Faraday's Law intro"      
3-Feb "6-1, 6-2, 6-4" "Faraday's Law, Inductor Law" Notes HW5 (due 2/11)  
5-Feb      

8-Feb 6-7 through 6-11 Dispacement current - Boundary Conditions      
Plane Waves
10-Feb "7-1, 7-2" "Phasors, Plane Wave Solution" Notes HW6 (due 2/18)  
traveling wave    
12-Feb      

15-Feb Holiday - no class      
16-Feb 7-2 Plane waves      
plane wave movie    
17-Feb Review for Exam 1      
    Exam 1 (Feb. 18 - 23) Exam appendix    
19-Feb 7-3 Polarization Linear polarization    
elliptical polarization    
left hand cicular    
right hand cicular    

22-Feb 7-4 Lossy Media in class problem    
24-Feb 7-6 Power Flow   HW7 (due 3/4)  
26-Feb Notes    

1-Mar 8-1 Normal Incidence      
3-Mar "8-2, 8-3, 8-4" Oblique Incidence   HW8 (due 3/11)  
5-Mar "8-2, 8-3" Snell's Law      

8-Mar "8-4, 8-5" Reflection and transmission      
10-Mar Cont in class problem HW9 (due 3/18)  
12-Mar Cont      

Antennas
15-Mar 9-1 Hertzian Dipole Notes    
17-Mar Reflection and transmission in class problem HW10 (due 3/25)  
19-Mar      

22-Mar 9-2 Antenna Parameters      
24-Mar Review Exam 2 appendix    
    Exam 2 (Mar. 25 - 30)      

29-Mar cont      
31-Mar 9-5 Friis Transmission Formula   HW11 (due 4/8)  
2-Apr Examples      

5-Apr 9-9 Antenna Arrays      
7-Apr 9-10 Antenna Arrays      
9-Apr 9-11 Antenna Arrays      

12-Apr Plotting array factor Matlab Code    
    "Final Wed. April 21, 11 am -2 pm" Final Appendix    
Final Review Topics    
Static Field Simulator    
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