ECEn 360/362 Electromagnetic Fields and Waves
Fall 2007
| Date | Text | Topic | Notes | Homework/Handouts | Solutions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electrostatics | |||||
| 5-Jan | Introductions | ||||
| 7-Jan | Course Information | ||||
| 9-Jan | "Vectors, Vector Operators" | LN1 | HW1-due 1/15 | HW1 Solns | |
| 12-Jan | "4-1, 4-2" | "Vectors, Maxwell Equations" | |||
| 14-Jan | "4-3, 4-4" | Gauss's Law | LN2 | ||
| 16-Jan | Gauss's Law | LN3 | HW2-due 1/22 | HW2 Solns | |
| 19-Jan | Holiday - no class | ||||
| 21-Jan | 4-5 | Electric Potential | LN4 | ||
| 23-Jan | "4-6, 4-7, 4-8" | Electrical Properties of Materials | LN5 | HW3-due 1/29 | HW3 Solns |
| 26-Jan | Dielectric Materials | ||||
| 28-Jan | "4-10, 4-11" | Capacitance and Energy | LN6 | ||
| 30-Jan | Energy | HW4-due 2/5 | HW4 Solns | ||
| Magnetostatics | |||||
| 2-Feb | "5-2, 5-4" | Ampere's Law | LN7 | ||
| 4-Feb | 5-8 | "Ampere's Law, Magnetic Vector Potential" | LN8 | ||
| 6-Feb | "Magnetic Materials, Inductance, Faraday's Law" | LN9 | HW5-due 2/12 | HW5 Solns | |
| Time-Varying Fields | |||||
| 9-Feb | "6-1, 6-2, 6-4" | "Faraday's Law, Inductor Law" | LN10 | ||
| 11-Feb | "6-7, 6-8" | Displacement Current | |||
| 13-Feb | Boundary Conditions | HW6-due 2/19 | HW6 Solns | ||
| 16-Feb | Holiday - no class | ||||
| Plane Waves | |||||
| 17-Feb | Boundary Conditions | ||||
| 18-Feb | 4-1 | Maxwell's Equations in Point Form | LN11 | ||
| 20-Feb | 7-1 | Time Harmonic Wave Equation | LN12 | ||
| 23-Feb | Review for exam | Review | |||
| "Exam #1 (TuWTh, Feb 24-26)" | |||||
| 25-Feb | 7-2 | Plane Wave Solutions | LN13 | ||
| 27-Feb | 7-3 | Polarization | LN14 | HW7-due 3/4 | HW7 Solns |
| 2-Mar | 7-4 | Lossy Media | LN15 | ||
| 4-Mar | 7-6 | Power Flow | LN16 | ||
| Reflection and Transmission of Plane Waves | |||||
| 6-Mar | 8-1 | Normal Incidence | LN17 | HW8-due 3/12 | HW8 Solns |
| 9-Mar | "8-2, 8-3, 8-4" | Oblique Incidence | LN18 | ||
| 11-Mar | "8-2, 8-3, 8-4" | Oblique Incidence | |||
| 13-Mar | 8-4 | "Total Reflection, Total Transmission" | LN19 | HW9-due 3/19 | HW9 Solns |
| 16-Mar | Review for exam | Review | |||
| 18-Mar | 8-5 | Reflected and Transmitted Power | LN20 | ||
| Waveguides | |||||
| 20-Mar | HW10-due 3/26 | HW10 Solns | |||
| 23-Mar | |||||
| 25-Mar | |||||
| 27-Mar | |||||
| 30-Mar | |||||
| "Exam #2 (TuWTh, Mar 31-Apr 2)" | |||||
| Antennas | |||||
| 1-Apr | Hertzian Dipole | LN35 | |||
| 3-Apr | Antenna Parameters | LN36 | |||
| 6-Apr | Friis Transmission Formula | LN37 | |||
| 8-Apr | Antenna Arrays | LN38 | HW11-due 4/14 | HW11 Solns | |
| 10-Apr | Antenna Arrays | LN39 | |||
| 13-Apr | Review for Final Exam | Review | |||
| "Final Exam in Testing Center (FSaMTuW, Apr 17-22)" | |||||