ECE 329 Class Calendar

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1 Vector fields and Lorentz force

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Paper: Taflove 2010

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2 Coulomb's and Gauss's laws

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Anim: 3 charges

Anim: 2 charges

Anim: Dipole field

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3 Gauss's law and static charge densities

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Junteenth

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4 Divergence and curl

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5 Curl-free fields and electrostatic potential

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6 Circulation and boundary conditions

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7 Poisson's and Laplace's equations

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EXCEL: Poisson Solver

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8 Conductors, dielectrics, polarization

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9 Fields in dielectric media

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10 Capacitance and conductance

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July 2025
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11 Conductivity, susceptibility, polarization current

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Paper: Electrets

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12 Magnetic force and Ampere's law

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13 Current sheet, solenoid, vector potential and current loops

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Independence Day Break

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EXAM 1

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14 Faraday's law and induced emf

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Video: Earth's Magnetic Field

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15 Inductance --- solenoid, shorted coax

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16 Charge conservation, continuity eqn, displacement current, Maxwell's equations

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Paper: Currents in wires

Paper: Fields around wires

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17 Magnetization current, Maxwell's equations in material media

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18 Wave equation and plane TEM waves in source-free media

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19 d'Alembert wave solutions, radiation from current sheets

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20 Wave energy and Poynting theorem

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21 Monochromatic wave solutions and phasor notation

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22 Phasor form of Maxwell's equations and damped waves in conducting media

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23 Impefect dielectrics, good conductors

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24 Signal transmission, circular polarization

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25 Wave reflections, standing waves

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Anim: Partial and total reflections

26 Standing waves, radiation pressure

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27 Guided TEM waves in TL systems

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28 Introduction to distributed circuits

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Anim: Bouncing Sine

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29 Bounce diagrams

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Anim: Unit Step

Anim: Double Pulse

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30 Multi-line circuits

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Anim: Two Lines

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31 Periodic oscillations in losless TL ckts

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Anim: Open Open

Anim: Open Short

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32 Input impedance and microwave resonators

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33 TL circuits with half- and quarter-wave transformers

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August 2024
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34 Line impedance, generalized reflection coefficient, Smith Chart

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35 Smith Chart examples

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36 Smith Chart and VSWR

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37 Smith Chart and impedance matching

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38 Distribution networks

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39 Lossy lines

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