Calendar

ECE 350 Class Calendar

February 2021
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
1 4 Time-harmonic sources and retarded potentials Paper:Why we use retarded potentials Paper:Aichelburg+Beig 1976	2	3 5 Vector calculus in spherical coordinates	4	5 6 Spherical waves	6	7
8 7 Hertzian dipole fields Notes:FAQ on radiation ;-)	9	10 8 Radiation fields of dipole antennas	11	12 9 Poynting vector, radiated power, radiation resistance NEC Mac: Short Dipole NEC Mac: 1D Array NEC PC: Short Dipole NEC PC: 1D Array	13	14
15 10 Antenna gain, beam pattern, directivity	16	17	18	19 11 Beam pattern, wave interference	20	21
22 12 Interference, antennas arrays --- cont'd Plot: Digital sinc	23	24 13 Array feed networks	25 EXAM 1	26 No class	27	28

March 2021
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
1 14 Interference zones, plane waves Paper: Clarke	2	3 15 Plane-wave form of Maxwell's equations, propagation in arbitrary direction	4	5 16 Reflection and transmission, TE mode	6	7
8 17 Reflection and transmission, TE mode Paper: Microphysics Plot: Reflection Coefficients	9	10 18 Reflecting plates, monopole antennas, corner reflectors Pictures: Big antennas Picture: Arecibo catwalk	11	12 19 Total internal reflection and evanescent waves	13	14
15 20 Doppler shift Anim: Standing waves Anim: Doppler and reflection	16	17 21 Doppler radars Paper: Relativity notes	18	19 22 Dispersion and propagation in collisionless plasmas Movie: Ionograms	20	21
22 23 Phase and group velocities and delays Anim: Group velocity Anim: Dispersive vs non-dispersive Anim: Square wave dispersing	23	24	25 EXAM 2	26 No class	27	28
29 24 Evanescent waves and tunneling	30	31 25 Parallel-plate waveguides: TE modes Tool: Smith Chart

April 2021
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
			1	2 26 Parallel-plate waveguides: TM modes	3	4
5 27 Parallel-plate waveguides: example problems	6	7 28 TM modes in rectangular waveguides	8	9 29 TE modes in rectangular waveguides	10	11
12 30 Guide impedance and TL analogies	13	14 31 TE modes in dielectric slab waveguides	15	16 32 TM modes in dielectric slab waveguides	17	18
19 33 Rectangular cavities	20	21 34 Resonant modes and field fluctuations	22 EXAM 3	23 No class	24	25
26 35 Cavity radiation and thermal noise Paper: Nyquist Paper Paper: Thermal Noise	27	28 36 Antenna reception and links	29	30 37 Effective area and reciprocity Plot: V_TH of open short dipole