Electromagnetic Fields and Waves

 

Spring 2013

 

 

Prof. Rafael Piestun,

 

Office: OCS 246, Phone: 50894, email: piestun@colorado.edu

 

General Class Information

·         Lecture times: 11:00-11:50 MWF   ECEE 1B32

·      Instructor office hours: Tuesday 4 pm, Wednesday noon.

NOTE: Next Quiz will be on Wednesday April 17. Topics include chapters 16 to 22.

Textbook

The textbook is free (see below):

Zoya Popovic and Branko D. Popovic, Introductory Electromagnetics, Prentice Hall, 2000.

 

Contents and Preface.pdf       3400corr.pdf (corrections and some comments)

 

UNIT 1 – Statics and DC

Chapter 1 - Basic Concepts.pdf

Chapter 2 - Circuit theory and EM.pdf

Chapter 3 - Coulombs Law and Electric Field.pdf

Chapter 4 - Electric Scalar Potential.pdf

Chapter 5 - Gauss Law.pdf

Chapter 6 - Conductors in the Electrostatic Field.pdf

Chapter 7 - Dielectrics in the Electrostatic Field.pdf

Chapter 8 - Capacitance and Related Concepts.pdf

Chapter 9 - Energy and Forces in the Electrostatic Field.pdf

Chapter 10 - Time invarient Currents in Conductors.pdf

Chapter 11 - Some Applications of Electrostatics.pdf

 

UNIT 2 – Magnetics and electromagnetics

Chapter 12 - Magnetic Field in a Vacuum.pdf

Chapter 13 - Magnetic Fields in Materials.pdf

Chapter 14 - Electromagnetic Induction and Faradays Law.pdf

Chapter 15 - Inductance.pdf

Chapter 16 - Energy and Forces in the Magnetic Field.pdf

Chapter 17 - Applications of time invariant and slow magnetic fields.pdf

 

UNIT 3 – TEM waves and Maxwell’s equations

Chapter 18 - Transmission Lines.pdf

Chapter 19 - Maxwells Equations.pdf

Chapter 20 - The Skin Effect.pdf

Chapter 21 - Uniform Plane Waves.pdf

Chapter 22 - Reflection and Refraction of Plane Waves.pdf

 

UNIT 4 – Waveguides and antennas

Chapter 23 - Waveguides and Resonators.pdf

Chapter 24 - EM Wave Radiation and Antennas.pdf

Chapter 25 - Practical Aspects of EM Waves.pdf

 

Appendices and Index.pdf

 

The related Practice Problems workbook is here: WorkBook.pdf  

                                                                    

There are many books that cover the material of this class. They vary in style and students usually find different presentations more appealing than others. Feel free to explore them. Some examples:

-          B. Notaros, Electromagnetics, Pearson, 2011.

-          D. Cheng, Fundamentals of Engineering Electromagnetics, Addison Wesley.

-          Ramo, Whinnery and Van Duzer, Fields and Waves in Communication Electronics, Wiley.  (higher level)

Assignments

Homework will be due every other Friday in class.

 

HW1-ECEN3400-S2013.pdf

 

HW2-ECEN3400-S2013.pdf

 

HW3-ECEN3400-S2013.pdf

 

HW4-ECEN3400-S2013.pdf

 

HW5-ECEN3400-S2013.pdf

 

HW6-ECEN3400-S2013.pdf

 

 

Grading:

 

Homework

20%

Quizzes

20%

Midterm

25%

Final exam

35%

 

Copying other students’ work (or from anybody’s solution), or letting other students copy your work is considered dishonest and if proven will result in and F in the course. I am sure you have already been told that this is for your own good.  You are definitely encouraged to study in groups and discuss homework, quizzes, etc after you have handed in your solution.