The calendar below is tentative and may be adjusted during the semester.
| Lecture | Date | Topic | Reading | Optional |
| 1 | 8/24 | Vector Fields and Lorentz Force | Note | CalcReview
Paper |
| 2 | 8/26 | Coulomb's and Gauss's Laws | Note | 3 Charges Anim
2 Charges Anim
Dipole Field |
| 3 | 8/28 | Gauss's Law and Static Charge Density | Note | |
| 4 | 8/31 | Divergence and Curl | Note | |
| 5 | 9/2 | Curl-free Fields and Electrostatic Potential | Note | |
| 6 | 9/4 | Circulation and Boundary Conditions | Note | |
| 9/7 | NO CLASS – Labor Day (all-campus holiday) | | |
| 7 | 9/9 | Poisson's and Laplace's Equations | Note | EXCEL: Poisson Solver |
| 8 | 9/11 | Conductors, Dielectrics, Polarization | Note | |
| 9 | 9/14 | Fields in Dielectric Media | Note | |
| 10 | 9/16 | Capacitance and Conductance | Note | |
| 11 | 9/18 | Conductivity, Susceptibility, Polarization Current | Note | |
| 9/21 | Midterm Exam 1 (7:00pm-8:15 pm) | | |
| 9/21 | NO CLASS – canceled due to Midterm Exam 1 | | |
| 12 | 9/23 | Magnetic Force and Ampere's Law | Note | |
| 13 | 9/25 | Current Sheet, Solenoid, Vector Potential and Current Loops | Note | |
| 14 | 9/28 | Faraday's Law and Induced EMF | Note | |
| 15 | 9/30 | Inductance — solenoid, Shorted Coax | Note | |
| 16 | 10/2 | Charge Conservation, Continuity Equation, Displacement Current, Maxwell's Equations | Note | Currents in Wires
Fields around Wires |
| 17 | 10/5 | Magnetization Current, Maxwell's Equations in Material Media | Note | |
| 18 | 10/7 | Wave Equation and Plane TEM Waves in Source-free Media | Note | |
| 19 | 10/9 | d'Alembert Wave Solutions, Radiation from Current Sheets | Note | |
| 20 | 10/12 | Wave Energy and Poynting Theorem | Note | |
| 21 | 10/14 | Monochromatic Wave Solutions and Phasor Notation | Note | |
| 22 | 10/16 | Phasor Form of Maxwell's Equations, Damped Waves in Conducting Media | Note | |
| 10/19 | Midterm Exam 2 (7:00pm-8:15 pm) | | |
| 10/19 | NO CLASS – canceled due to Midterm Exam 2 | | |
| 23 | 10/21 | Imperfect Dielectrics, Good Conductors | Note | |
| 24 | 10/23 | Signal Transmission, Circular Polarization | Note | |
| 25 | 10/26 | Wave Reflections, Standing Waves | Note | Partial and Total Reflection Anim |
| 26 | 10/28 | Standing Waves | Note | |
| 27 | 10/30 | Guided TEM Waves in TL Systems | Note | |
| 28 | 11/2 | Introduction to Distributed Circuits | Note | Bouncing Sine Anim |
| 29 | 11/4 | Bounce Diagrams | Note | |
| 30 | 11/6 | Multi-Line Circuits | Note | Two Lines Anim |
| 31 | 11/9 | Periodic Oscillations in lossless TL Circuits | Note | Open Open Anim
Open Short Anim |
| 32 | 11/11 | Input Impedance and Microwave Resonators | Note | |
| 33 | 11/13 | TL Circuits with Half- and Quarter-Wave Transformers | Note | |
| 34 | 11/16 | Line Impedance, Generalized Reflection Coefficient, Smith Chart | Note | |
| 11/16 | Midterm Exam 3 (7:00pm-8:15 pm) | | |
| 35 | 11/18 | Smith Chart Examples | Note | |
| 11/20 | NO CLASS – canceled due to Midterm Exam 3 | | |
| 11/21-11/29 | NO CLASS – Fall Break | | |
| 36 | 11/30 | Smith Chart and VSWR | Note | |
| 37 | 12/2 | Smith Chart and Impedance Matching | Note | |
| 38 | 12/4 | Distribution Networks | Note | |
| 39 | 12/7 | Catch up | | |
| 12/9 | Course Review – Last Day of Instruction | | |
| 12/10 | Reading Day | | |
| TBD | Final Exam | | |
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