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) | |
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