ECE 329 - Fields and Waves I

Fall2022

Logistics

Autumn sports meeting changed from Oct 21-23 to Nov 25-27

Oct 15 (Sat) : no class (originally scheduled to make up for Oct.21)

Oct 21 (Fri) : regular class

Nov 25 (Fri) : no class (Sports meeting : Nov 25-27)

Dec 3 (Sat) : make-up class for Nov.25 (Fri)

Calendar

Lecture	Date	Tentetive Topic	Readings	Optional
1	9/12, Mo	Fields and waves in nature and engineering — the big picture Vector fields and Lorentz force	Note	CalcReview Paper MP0 MP1
2	9/14, We	Static electric fields — Coulomb’s and Gauss’s laws	Note	MP2 3 Charges Anim 2 Charges Anim Dipole Field
3	9/16, Fr	Gauss’s law and static charge densities	Note	MP3
4	9/19, Sa	Divergence and curl	Note	MP4
5	9/21, We	Curl-free fields and electrostatic potential	Note	MP5
6	9/23, Fr	Circulation and boundary conditions	Note	MP6
7	9/26, Mo	Poisson's and Laplace's equations	Note	MP7 EXCEL: Poisson Solver
8	9/28, We	Conductors, dielectrics, and polarization	Note
9	9/30, Fr	Static fields in dielectric media	Note	MP9
10	10/9, Su	Capacitance and conductance	Note	MP10
11	10/10, Mo	Lorentz-Drude models for conductivity and susceptibility and polarization current	Note	MP11
12	10/12, We	Magnetic force and fields and Ampere’s law	Note	MP12
	10/14, Fr	Exam 1
13	10/15, Sa	Current sheet, solenoid, vector potential and current loops	Note
14	10/17, Mo	Faraday’s law and induced emf	Note	MP14 Earth's Magnetic Field
15	10/19, We	Inductance — solenoid, shorted coax	Note	MP15
16	10/24, Mo	Charge conservation, continuity eqn, displacement current, Maxwell’s equations	Note	MP16 Currents in Wires Fields around Wires
17	10/26, We	Magnetization current, Maxwell’s equations in material media	Note
18	10/28, Fr	Wave equation and plane TEM waves in source-free media	Note	MP18
19	10/31, Mo	d’Alembert wave solutions, radiation from current sheets	Note	MP19
20	11/2, We	Poynting theorem and monochromatic waves	Note	MP20
21	11/4, Fr	Monochromatic waves and phasor notation	Note	MP21
22	11/7, Mo	Phasor form of Maxwell’s equations and damped waves in conducting media	Note	MP22
23	11/9,We	Imperfect dielectrics, good conductors	Note	MP23
	11/11, Fr	Exam 2
24	11/14, Mo	Signal transmission, circular polarization	Note	MP24
25	11/16, We	Wave reflection and transmission	Note	MP25 Partial and Total Reflection Anim
26	11/18, Fr	Standing waves, radiation pressure	Note	MP26
27	11/21, Mo	Guided TEM waves on TL systems	Note	MP27
28	11/23, We	Distributed circuits and bounce diagrams	Note	MP28 Bouncing Sine Anim
29	11/25, Fr	Bounce diagram examples	Note	MP29
30	11/28, Mo	Multi-line circuits	Note	MP30 Two Lines Anim
31	11/30,We	Periodic oscillations in lossless TL ckts	Note	MP31 Open Open Anim Open Short Anim
32	12/2, Fr	Input impedance and microwave resonators	Note	MP32
33	12/5, Mo	TL circuits with half- and quarter-wave transformers	Note	MP33
34	12/7, We	Line impedance, generalized reflection coefficient, Smith Chart	Note	MP34 AARL Smith Chart Smith Chart Tool Smith Chart
	12/9, Fr	Exam 3
35	12/12, Mo	Smith Chart examples	Note	MP35
36	12/14, We	Smith Chart and VSWR	Note	MP36
37	12/16, Fr	Smith Chart and impedance matching	Note	MP37
38	12/19, Mo	Distribution networks	Note	MP38
39	12/21, We	Lossy lines	Note	MP39
		Final Exam