ECE 329 - Fields and Waves I

Spring 2025

Calendar

Lecture Date Topic Reading Optional
1/20 NO CLASS MLK Day
1 1/22 Vector Fields and Lorentz Force Note CalcReview
Paper
MP0
MP1
2 1/24 Coulomb's and Gauss's Laws Note MP2
3 Charges Anim
2 Charges Anim
Dipole Field
3 1/27 Gauss's Law and Static Charge Density Note MP3
4 1/29 Divergence and Curl Note MP4
5 1/31 Curl-free Fields and Electrostatic Potential Note MP5
6 2/3 Circulation and Boundary Conditions Note MP6
7 2/5 Poisson's and Laplace's Equations Note MP7
EXCEL: Poisson Solver
8 2/7 Conductors, Dielectrics, Polarization Note MP8
9 2/10 Fields in Dielectric Media Note MP9
10 2/12 Capacitance and Conductance Note MP10
11 2/14 Conductivity, Susceptibility, Polarization Current Note MP11
12 2/17 Magnetic Force and Ampere's Law Note MP12
13 2/19 Current Sheet, Solenoid, Vector Potential and Current Loops Note MP13
2/20 Exam 1 (7:00-8:15pm)
2/21 NO CLASS Canceled due to Midterm 1
14 2/24 Faraday's Law and Induced EMF Note MP14
Earth's Magnetic Field
15 2/26 Inductance  —  solenoid, Shorted Coax Note MP15
16 2/28 Charge Conservation, Continuity Equation, Displacement Current, Maxwell's Equations Note MP16
Currents in Wires
Fields around Wires
17 3/3 Magnetization Current, Maxwell's Equations in Material Media Note MP17
18 3/5 Wave Equation and Plane TEM Waves in Source-free Media Note MP18
19 3/7 d'Alembert Wave Solutions, Radiation from Current Sheets Note MP19
20 3/10 Wave Energy and Poyting Theorem Note MP20
21 3/12 Monochromatic Wave Solutions and Phasor Notation Note MP21
3/13 Exam 2 (7:00-8:15pm)
3/14 NO CLASS Canceled due to Midterm 2
3/17 NO CLASS Spring Break
3/19 NO CLASS Spring Break
3/21 NO CLASS Spring Break
22 3/24 Phasor Form of Maxwell's Equations, Damped Waves in Conducting Media Note MP22
23 3/26 Imperfect Dielectrics, Good Conductors Note MP23
24 3/28 Signal Transmission, Circular Polarization Note MP24
25 3/31 Wave Reflections, Standing Waves Note MP25
Partial and Total Reflection Anim
26 4/2 Standing Waves, Radiation Pressure Note MP26
4/4 NO CLASS EOH
27 4/7 Guided TEM Waves in TL Systems Note MP27
28 4/9 Introduction to Distributed Circuits Note MP28
Bouncing Sine Anim
29 4/11 Bounce Diagrams Note MP29
30 4/14 Multi-Line Circuits Note MP30
Two Lines Anim
31 4/16 Periodic Oscillations in lossless TL Circuits Note MP31
Open Open Anim
Open Short Anim
4/17 Exam 3 (7:00-8:15pm)
4/18 NO CLASS Canceled due to Midterm 3
32 4/21 Input Impedance and Microwave Resonators Note MP32
33 4/23 TL Circuits with half- and Quater-wave Transformers Note MP33
34 4/25 Line Impeadance, Generalized Reflection Coefficient, Smith Chart Note MP34
35 4/28 Smith Chart Examples Note MP35
36 4/30 Smith Chart and VSWR Note MP36
37 5/2 Smith Chart and Impedance Matching Note MP37
38 5/5 Distribution Networks Note MP38
39 5/7 Lossy Lines Note MP39
5/8 Reading Day
TBD Final Exam (Time TBD)