ECE 329 - Fields and Waves I

Fall 2025

Calendar

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