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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Debartolo 201
Elements of Engineering Electromagnetics,
by N. N. Rao (Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004).
Elements of Electromagnetics,
by M. N. O. Sadiku (
CLASS 1 (January 15) FIRST DAY OF CLASS
Introduction and Overview.
Review of vector algebra.
CLASS 2 (January 17) [Daily Prep]
Cartesian, cylindrical, and spherical coordinate systems.
Scalar and vector fields.
Homework 1 (due Jan 24): P1.15, P1.16, P1.19, P1.20, P1.24. [Solution]
CLASS 3 (January 22) [Daily Prep]
The electric field; Coulomb's law.
Electric field of a uniformly-charged line, ring, sheet, and sphere.
CLASS 4 (January 24) [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 Jan 31): P1.32, P1.38, P.42, P1.44, P1.50. [Solution]
CLASS 5 (January 29) [Daily Prep]
Line integrals and electrostatic potential; surface integrals and magnetic
flux.
Faraday’s law; Ampere’s circuital law.
CLASS 6 (January 31) [Daily Prep]
Gauss’ law; law of conservation of charge.
Maxwell’s equations in integral form.
Homework 3 (due Feb 7): P2.15, P2.18, P2.22, P2.26, P2.32. [Solution]
CLASS 7 (February 4) [Daily Prep]
(Please note change of time and place:
Maxwell’s equations in differential form.
Divergence and curl.
CLASS 8 (February 7) [Daily Prep]
Plane waves in free space.
Homework 4 (due Feb 14): P3.9, P3.33, P3.37, P3.39, P3.40. [Solution]
CLASS 9 (February 12 ) [Daily Prep]
Power flow and energy storage.
Poynting vector.
CLASS 10 (February 14) [Daily Prep]
Electrical and magnetic properties of materials.
Homework 5 (due Feb 21): P4.1, P4.4, P4.5, P4.6, P4.10. [Solution]
CLASS 11 (February 19) [Daily Prep]
Waves in dielectric and conducting materials.
CLASS 12 (February 21) [Daily Prep]
Waves propagation characteristics.
Reflection and transmission.
Homework 6 (due Feb 28): P4.13, P4.20, P4.21, P4.22, P4.36. [Solution]
CLASS 13 (February 26) [Daily Prep]
Electrostatic and electromagnetic potentials.
Poisson’s and Laplace’s equations.
(March 4) SPRING BREAK
(March 6) SPRING BREAK
CLASS 15 (March 11) [Daily Prep]
Magnetic circuits.
Electromechanical energy conversion.
CLASS 16 (March 13) MIDTERM EXAM
CLASS 17 (March 18)
Review of MidTerm Exam.
CLASS 18 (March 20) [Daily Prep]
Transmission line basics.
Line terminated by resistive load.
CLASS 19 (March 25) [Daily Prep]
Transmission lines with reactive terminations and discontinuities.
Homework 7 (due Apr 1): P6.2, P6.5, P6.6, P6.8, P6.10. [Solution]
CLASS 20 (March 27) [Daily Prep]
Transmission lines for digital electronics.
CLASS 21 (April 1) [Daily Prep]
Transmission lines for communications - basics.
Homework 8 (due Apr 8): P6.11, P6.22, P7.1, P7.12, P7.42. (NOTE: P7.42 will be due next time) [Solution]
CLASS 22 (April 3) [Daily Prep]
Transmission line terminated by arbitrary load.
CLASS 23 (April 8) [Daily Prep]
Transmission-line matching.
Smith chart: basic proce
dures and applications.
Homework 9 (due Apr 15): P7.17, P7.31, P7.32, P7.42, P7.43. [Solution]
CLASS 24 (April 10) [Daily Prep]
The lossy line.
Guided-wave basics.
CLASS 25 (April 15) [Daily Prep]
TE and TM waves in parallel-plate waveguides.
Homework 10 (due Apr 22): P8.6, P8.7, P8.11, P8.14, P8.24. [Solution]
CLASS 26 (April 17) [Daily Prep]
Reflection and refraction of plane waves.
Dielectric slab guide; graded-index guide.
CLASS 27 (April 22) [Daily Prep]
Rectangular metallic waveguide and cavity resonator.
Losses in metallic waveguides and resonators.
CLASS 28 (April 24) [Daily Prep]
Optical fiber; pulse broadening in dispersive media.
Interference and diffraction.
CLASS 29 (April 29) [Daily Prep]
Antenna basics.
FINAL EXAM (May 5)
Place: Classroom
Time: 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.