
25733: Electromagnetics
Course Name: Electromagnetics
Course Number: 25733
Prerequisite(s): 24012 (Physics 2) and 25735 (Engineering Mathematics)
Co-requisite(s): -
Units: 3
Level: Undergraduate
Last Revision: Summer 2020
Description:
This course introduces students to the laws and concepts governing to Electrostatics and Magnetostatics, as well as time-varying electromagnetic fields.
Syllabus:
Course Number: 25733
Prerequisite(s): 24012 (Physics 2) and 25735 (Engineering Mathematics)
Co-requisite(s): -
Units: 3
Level: Undergraduate
Last Revision: Summer 2020
Description:
This course introduces students to the laws and concepts governing to Electrostatics and Magnetostatics, as well as time-varying electromagnetic fields.
Syllabus:
- Vector Calculus: Gradient, curl, divergence, Stokes theorem, divergence theorem, Helmholtz theorem
- Maxwell’s equations in integral form, Coulomb’s law, Gauss law, conservation of charge, Faraday’s law and electromagnetic induction, displacement current, Ampere’s law
- Maxwell’s equations in differential form, uniform plane waves in free space
- Static electric fields, electric potential, solution to electrostatic problems, Poisson and Laplace equations, useful theorems, solution to Laplace and Poisson equations
- Fields in material media, conductors, dielectrics, electric polarization, bound volume, and surface polarization charge density
- Boundary conditions for static fields, capacitors and capacitance, electrostatic energy
- Steady-state electric currents, current density, Ohm’s law and Kirchhoff laws, boundary conditions and continuity equation, power loss, Joule’s law
- Static magnetic fields, Lorentz force, Bio-Savart law, magnetic dipoles, magnetic potentials, magnetization vector, magnetic materials, boundary conditions for magnetic fields, magnetic induction, magnetic circuits, magnetic energy, magnetic force
- Transmission lines, Telegrapher’s equations, propagation in transmission lines, reflections from loads in time domain
- N. N. Rao, Elements of Engineering Electromagnetic
- David K. Cheng, Field and Wave Electromagnetics
Last Update: 2024-05-23