Meeting #

Date

Topic

Homework (Due date)

1

Feb. 9

Introduction. Basic sinusoidal waves.

2

Feb. 11

Electromagnetic spectrum. Phasors.

3

Feb. 14

Transmission lines. Telegrapher's equations.

4

Feb. 16

Solution of the telegrapher's equations. Reflection coefficient.

5

Feb. 18

Standing waves. Input impedance.

1.1, 1.3, 1.6, 1.8, 1.14, 1.18, 1.22, 1.23, 1.24, 2.1, 2.4, 2.6, 2.10, 2.12, 2.13.

6

Feb. 21

Input impedance. Special cases.

7

Feb. 23

Power. End transmission lines.

8

Feb. 25

Vectors. Coordinate systems.

2.17, 2.19, 2.20, 2.23, 2.24, 2.27, 2.29, 2.31, 2.32, 3.4, 3.5, 3.8, 3.11.

9

Feb. 28

Coordinate systems.

10

Mar. 2

Coordinate systems.

11

Mar. 4

Vector calculus.

3.12, 3.13, 3.15, 3.16, 3.19, 3.21, 3.22, 3.23, 3.25, 3.27, 3.28.

12

Mar. 7

Vector calculus.

13

Mar. 9

Maxwell's equations. Current density. Coulomb's law. Gauss's law.

14

Mar. 11

Gauss's law (cont.). Electric potential. Ohm's law.

3.32, 3.34, 3.38, 3.39, 3.41, 3.44, 3.47, 4.3, 4.5, 4.9, 4.12, 4.15, 4.19, 4.22.

15

Mar. 14

Dielectrics. Capacitance. Boundary conditions.

16

Mar. 16

EXAM #1 (covers lectures 1-14)

17

Mar. 18

Review exam #1.

No homework; study, study study!

18

Mar. 21

Magnetostatics. Ampere's law.

19

Mar. 23

Magnetostatics. Gauss's law for the magnetic field. Inductance.

20

Mar. 25

Faraday's law.

4.28, 4.29, 4.31, 4.33, 4.42, 4.43, 4.44, 4.45, 4.52, 4.54, 5.3, 5.7, 5.9, 5.10, 5.20, 5.22.

Mar. 28

SPRING BREAK

Mar. 30

Apr. 1

21

Apr. 4

Transformer and motional emf.

22

Apr. 6

Finish emf. Ampere-Maxwell law. Potential functions.

23

Apr. 8

Electromagnetic waves.

6.3, 6.5, 6.8, 6.9, 6.10, 6.13, 6.14, 6.15, 6.16.

24

Apr. 11

Electromagnetic waves (cont.). Polarization.

25

Apr. 13

Polarization (cont.). Waves in lossy media.

26

Apr. 15

Waves in lossy media (cont.). Current flow in good conductors.

7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.9, 7.10, 7.13.

27

Apr. 18

Energy in static fields.

28

Apr. 20

Energy in dynamic fields. Poynting's theorem.

29

Apr. 22

EXAM #2 (covers lectures 1-26)

30

Apr. 25

Review exam #2.

31

Apr. 27

Reflection from boundaries at normal incidence.

32

Apr. 29

Reflection from boundaries at oblique incidence.

33

May 2

Optical fibers and oblique reflection.

7.22, 7.24, 7.25, 7.30, 7.33, 8.1, 8.3, 8.4, 8.9, 8.14, 8.15.

34

May 4

Reflection from boundaries at oblique incidence.

35

May 6

Antennas. Hertzian dipole.

8.17, 8.18, 8.19, 8.21, 8.23, 8.24, 8.26, 8.28, 8.29, 8.31, 8.32.

36

May 9

Antennas. Pattern, input impedance, directivity, etc.

37

May 11

Linear antennas.

38

May 13

Friis formula.

9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.8, 9.9, 9.12, 9.13, 9.14.

39

May 16

Antenna arrays.

40

May 18

EXAM #3 (covers lectures 1-39). (Leave no junior behind.)