Short Course Description: Treatment of the basic principles of electromagnetism, including electro- and magneto-static and electromagnetic wave phenomena. Fields and waves in material media. Transmission-line essentials for digital electronics. Guided wave principles for electronics and optoelectonics. Principles of radiation and antennas.
Dr. Wolfgang Porod
Room: 203 Cushing Hall
Phone: 631-6376
E-mail: Porod@ND.edu
Office Hours: T R
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O'Shaughnessy Hall 207
Elements of Engineering Electromagnetics,
by N. N. Rao (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004).
Elements of Electromagnetics,
by M. N. O. Sadiku (
CLASS 1 (January 16) FIRST DAY OF CLASS
Introduction and Overview.
Review of vector algebra.
CLASS 2 (January 18) [Daily Prep]
Cartesian, cylindrical, and spherical coordinate systems.
Scalar and vector fields.
Homework 1 (due Jan 25): P1.15, P1.16, P1.19, P1.20, P1.24. [Solution]
CLASS 3 (January 23) [Daily Prep]
The electric field; Coulomb's law.
Electric field of a uniformly-charged line, ring, sheet, and sphere.
CLASS 4 (January 25) [Daily Prep]
The magnetic field; Biot-Savart's
and Ampere’s law of force.
Magnetic field of a current in an infinite line and sheet. Lorentz Force.
Homework 2 (due Feb 1): P1.32, P1.38, P.42, P1.44, P1.50. [Solution]
CLASS 5 (January 30) [Daily Prep]
Line integrals and electrostatic potential; surface integrals and magnetic
flux.
Faraday’s law; Ampere’s circuital law.
CLASS 6 (February 1) [Daily Prep]
Gauss’ law; law of conservation of charge.
Maxwell’s equations in integral form.
Homework 3 (due Feb 8): P2.15, P2.18, P2.22, P2.26, P2.32. [Solution]
CLASS 7 (February 6) [Daily Prep]
Maxwell’s equations in differential form.
Divergence and curl.
CLASS 8 (February 8) [Daily Prep]
Plane waves in free space.
Homework 4 (due Feb 15): P3.9, P3.33, P3.37, P3.39, P3.40. [Solution]
CLASS 9 (February 12 – note change of date and location) [Daily Prep]
Power flow and energy storage.
Poynting vector.
CLASS 10 (February 15) [Daily Prep]
Electrical and magnetic properties of materials.
Homework 5 (due Feb 22): P4.1, P4.4, P4.5, P4.6, P4.10. [Solution]
CLASS 11 (February 20) [Daily Prep]
Waves in dielectric and conducting materials.
CLASS 12 (February 22) [Daily Prep]
Waves propagation characteristics.
Reflection and transmission.
Homework 6 (due Mar 1): P4.13, P4.20, P4.21, P4.22, P4.36. [Solution]
CLASS 13 (February 27) [Daily Prep]
Electrostatic and electromagnetic potentials.
Poisson’s and Laplace’s equations.
CLASS 14 (March 1) [Daily Prep]
Capacitance, conductance, and inductance.
CLASS 15 (March 6) [Daily Prep]
Magnetic circuits.
Electromechanical energy conversion.
CLASS 16 (March 8) MIDTERM EXAM
(March 13) SPRING BREAK
(March 15) SPRING BREAK
CLASS 17 (March 20)
Review of MidTerm Exam.
CLASS 18 (March 27) [Daily Prep]
Transmission line basics.
Line terminated by resistive load.
CLASS 19 (March 29) [Daily Prep]
Transmission lines with reactive terminations and discontinuities.
Homework 7 (due Apr 5): P6.2, P6.5, P6.6, P6.8, P6.10. [Solution]
CLASS 20 (April 2– note change of date and location) [Daily Prep]
Transmission lines for digital electronics.
CLASS 21 (April 3) [Daily Prep]
Transmission lines for communications - basics.
CLASS 22 (April 10) [Daily Prep]
Transmission line terminated by arbitrary load.
Transmission-line matching.
Homework 8 (due Apr 16): P6.11, P6.22, P7.1, P7.12, 7.42. [Solution]
CLASS 23 (April 12) [Daily Prep]
Smith chart: basic procedures and applications.
The lossy line.
CLASS 24 (April 16 – note change of date and location) [Daily Prep]
TE and TM waves in parallel-plate waveguides.
Homework 9 (due Apr 24): P8.6, P8.7, P8.11, P8.14, P8.24. [Solution]
CLASS 25 (April 19) [Daily Prep]
Reflection and refraction of plane waves.
Dielectric slab guide; graded-index guide.
CLASS 26 (April 24) [Daily Prep]
Rectangular metallic waveguide and cavity resonator.
Losses in metallic waveguides and resonators.
CLASS 27 (April 26) [Daily Prep]
Optical fiber; pulse broadening in dispersive media.
Interference and diffraction.
FINAL EXAM (May 8)
Place: Classroom
Time: 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.