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) | |
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