ECE 329 - Fields and Waves I

Fall 2021

Calendar

Lecture Date Topic Reading Optional
1 8/23 Vector Fields and Lorentz Force Note CalcReview
Paper
MP0
MP1
2 8/25 Coulomb's and Gauss's Laws Note MP2
3 Charges Anim
2 Charges Anim
Dipole Field
3 8/27 Gauss's Law and Static Charge Density Note MP3
4 8/30 Divergence and Curl Note MP4
5 9/1 Curl-free Fields and Electrostatic Potential Note MP5
6 9/3 Circulation and Boundary Conditions Note MP6
9/6 NO CLASS Labor Day
7 9/8 Poisson's and Laplace's Equations Note MP7
EXCEL: Poisson Solver
8 9/10 Conductors, Dielectrics, Polarization Note MP8
9 9/13 Fields in Dielectric Media Note MP9
10 9/15 Capacitance and Conductance Note MP10
11 9/17 Conductivity, Susceptibility, Polarization Current Note MP11
12 9/20 Magnetic Force and Ampere's Law Note MP12
9/22 NO CLASS In-Class Office Hours
9/23 Exam 1 (7pm-8:15pm)
13 9/24 Current Sheet, Solenoid, Vector Potential and Current Loops Note MP13
14 9/27 Faraday's Law and Induced EMF Note MP14
Earth's Magnetic Field
15 9/29 Inductance  —  solenoid, Shorted Coax Note MP15
16 10/1 Charge Conservation, Continuity Equation, Displacement Current, Maxwell's Equations Note MP16
Currents in Wires
Fields around Wires
17 10/4 Magnetization Current, Maxwell's Equations in Material Media Note MP17
18 10/6 Wave Equation and Plane TEM Waves in Source-free Media Note MP18
19 10/8 d'Alembert Wave Solutions, Radiation from Current Sheets Note MP19
20 10/11 Wave Energy and Poyting Theorem Note MP20
21 10/13 Monochromatic Wave Solutions and Phasor Notation Note MP21
22 10/15 Phasor Form of Maxwell's Equations, Damped Waves in Conducting Media Note MP22
23 10/18 Imperfect Dielectrics, Good Conductors Note MP23
10/20 NO CLASS In-Class Office Hours
10/21 Exam 2 (7pm-8:15pm)
24 10/22 Signal Transmission, Circular Polarization Note MP24
25 10/25 Wave Reflections, Standing Waves Note MP25
Partial and Total Reflection Anim
26 10/27 Standing Waves, Radiation Pressure Note MP26
27 10/29 Guided TEM Waves in TL Systems Note MP27
28 11/1 Introduction to Distributed Circuits Note MP28
Bouncing Sine Anim
29 11/3 Bounce Diagrams Note MP29
30 11/5 Multi-Line Circuits Note MP30
Two Lines Anim
31 11/8 Periodic Oscillations in lossless TL Circuits Note MP31
Open Open Anim
Open Short Anim
32 11/10 Input Impedance and Microwave Resonators Note MP32
33 11/12 TL Circuits with half- and Quater-wave Transformers Note MP33
34 11/15 Line Impeadance, Generalized Reflection Coefficient, Smith Chart Note MP34
35 11/17 Smith Chart Examples Note MP35
11/18 Exam 3 (7pm-8:15pm)
11/19 Class Cancelled Have a Great Thanksgiving Break!
11/22 NO CLASS Thanksgiving Break
11/24 NO CLASS Thanksgiving Break
11/26 NO CLASS Thanksgiving Break
36 11/29 Smith Chart and VSWR Note MP36
37 12/1 Smith Chart and Impeadance Matching Note MP37
38 12/3 Distribution Networks Note MP38
39 12/6 Lossy Lines Note MP39
40 12/8 Review
12/9 Reading Day
12/10 Final Exam (1:30-4:30pm)