ECEN 560 Schedule - Winter 2008
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Date		Text (Kong)	Topic	Homework	Notes
Propagation in Media
Jan. 8		1.1-1.9,3.1-3.2	Introduction	HW0, HW1	Review
10		1.8	Anisotropic media	Links, HW2	Anisotropic
15		3.3C	Uniaxial media		Examples
17		Topic 3.3A,B	Gyrotropic, bianisotropic media	HW3 Solution - 3b
Green's Functions, Radiation, Antennas
22		4.2	Green's functions - Helmholtz equation	HW4	Scalar
24		4.2	Green's functions - Maxwell's equation	HW5	Maxwell
29		4.2A	Dyadic Green's function	HW6	Dyadic
31		4.2B	Far field	HW7	Far Field
Feb. 5			Exam 1 (in class) practice	Review	Antennas
7		4.3, 4.5	Antenna parameters, linear antennas
12		4.4A,B,C	Linear arrays, Dolph-Chebyshev arrays	HW8	Arrays
14		4.4D	Pattern Synthesis Elliot Hansen		Arrays 2
19			(No class - Monday instruction)
21		4.7A	Dipole in layered media	HW9	Layered Media
26		4.7A	Dipole in layered media	HW10	Layered Media R/T
28		4.7B	Contour integration	HW11	Complex
Mar. 4		4.7B	Asymptotic integration	HW12	Asymptotic
6		Topic 4.7A	Vertical magnetic dipole	HW13	VMD
Theorems and Principles
11		5.1B, Topics 5.1A,B	Uniqueness, Duality, Image, theorems	HW14	Theorems
13		5.2 5.1A,C,D	Equivalence principle		Reciprocity
18		5.1A,C,D	Reaction and reciprocity	HW15	Reciprocity 2
20		Topic 5.1C	Huygens' principle, Exam Review	Review	Huygens
25			Exam 2 (Testing Center, March 24-26) practice
25		5.1D	Fresnel Diffraction fresnelc.m fresnels.m	Green Theorem Paper	Diffraction
27			Fresnel, Fraunhofer Diffraction	HW16
Apr. 1		5.5	Gaussian beams, review exam	HW17	Gaussian
Scattering
3		6.2	Scattering	HW18	Scattering
8			Scattering		Scattering 2
10			Special topics		High frequency asymptotics
15			Special topics
21			Final exam (11am-2pm, in class)