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ECE 329 - Fields and Waves I

Fall2023

ZJUI Teaching Calendar

Sep 18 (Mon): First day of instruction

Sep 24 (Sun): Deadline of Adjust electives for undergraduate students

Sep 29 - Oct 6: Mid-Autumn festival and national day holiday, no class

Oct 7 (Sat): Working day, treat as Friday

Oct 8 (Sun): Working day, treat as Friday

Oct 20-22: ZJU Autumn sports meeting, no class

Nov 10 (Fri): Deadline for UG students to drop class without recording “W”

Dec 29 (Fri): Last day of instruction

Dec 30 - Jan 12: Review and Final Exam

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Lecture # Date Tentetive Topic Lecture Notes & Tutorials Readings Optional
1 9/18, Mo Fields and waves in nature and engineering — the big picture
Vector fields and Lorentz force		 Lec 1: Intro & Vector Algebra Kudeki Lec 1;
Rao Sec 1.1-1.2		 CalcReview
 Why study EM by Taflove
 MP0
 MP1
2 9/20, We Static electric fields — Coulomb’s and Gauss’s laws Lec 2-3: Lorentz Force, Coulomb's Law, Surface Integrals;
Tutorial 1;
Tutorial 2		 Kudeki Lec 2;
Rao Sec 1.3-1.6, 2.2, 2.5		 MP2
3 Charges Anim
 2 Charges Anim
Dipole Field
3 9/22, Fr Gauss’s law and static charge densities Kudeki Lec 3 MP3
4 9/25, Mo Divergence and curl Lec 4-5: Maxwell Eqn in Differential Form Kudeki Lec 4;
Rao Sec 3.1-3.3		 Vector Calculus
Vector Identities
MP4
5 9/27, We Curl-free fields and electrostatic potential Kudeki Lec 5 MP5
6 10/7, Sa Circulation and boundary conditions Lec 6-7: Electrostatic Potential, Poisson Eqn, Boundary Condition
Tutorial 3;
Tutorial 4		 Kudeki Lec 6;
Rao Sec 6.1-6.2		 MP6
7 10/8, Su Poisson's and Laplace's equations Kudeki Lec 7 MP7
EXCEL: Poisson Solver
8 10/9, Mon Conductors, dielectrics, and polarization Lec 8 Kudeki Lec 8
Rao Sec 5.1		  
9 10/11, We Static fields in dielectric media Lec 9 Kudeki Lec 9 MP9
10 10/13, Fr Capacitance and conductance Lec 10 Kudeki Lec 10
Rao Sec 6.3		 MP10
11 10/16, Mo Lorentz-Drude models for conductivity and susceptibility and polarization current Lec 11 Kudeki Lec 11 MP11
12 10/18, We Magnetic force and fields and Ampere’s law Tutorial 5 Kudeki Lec 12
Rao Sec 1.6, 2.4, 2.1		 MP12
  10/23, Mo Exam 1    
13 10/25, We Current sheet, solenoid, vector potential and current loops Tutorial 6 Kudeki Lec 13  
14 10/27, Fr Faraday’s law and induced emf Lab Demo: EMF Kudeki Lec 14
Rao Sec 2.3		 MP14
Earth's Magnetic Field
15 10/30, Mo Inductance — solenoid, shorted coax Lec 15 Kudeki Lec 15 MP15
16 11/1, We Charge conservation, continuity eqn, displacement current, Maxwell’s equations Lec 16 Kudeki Lec 16 MP16
Currents in Wires
Fields around Wires
17 11/3, Fr Magnetization current, Maxwell’s equations in material media Lec 17 Kudeki Lec 17  
18 11/6, Mo Wave equation and plane TEM waves in source-free media Lec 18-19 Kudeki Lec 18 MP18
19 11/8, We d’Alembert wave solutions, radiation from current sheets Kudeki Lec 19 MP19
20 11/10, Fr Poynting theorem and monochromatic waves Lec 20
Tutorial 7		 Kudeki Lec 20 MP20
21 11/13, Mo Monochromatic waves and phasor notation Lec 21 Kudeki Lec 21 MP21
22 11/15, We Phasor form of Maxwell’s equations and damped waves in conducting media Lec 22 Kudeki Lec 22 MP22
23 11/17, Fr Imperfect dielectrics, good conductors Lec 23 Kudeki Lec 23 MP23
11/20, Mo Exam 2    
24 11/22, We Signal transmission, circular polarization Lec 24 Kudeki Lec 24 MP24
25 11/24, Fr Wave reflection and transmission Lec 25-26
Tutorial 8		 Kudeki Lec 25 MP25
Partial and Total Reflection Anim
26 11/27, Mo Standing waves, radiation pressure Kudeki Lec 26 MP26
27 11/29, We Guided TEM waves on TL systems Lec 27-31 Kudeki Lec 27 MP27
28 12/1, Fr Distributed circuits and bounce diagrams Lab Demo: Bounce Diagram, TDR Kudeki Lec 28 MP28
Bouncing Sine Anim
29 12/4, Mo Bounce diagram examples Kudeki Lec 29 MP29
30 12/6, We Multi-line circuits Kudeki Lec 30 MP30
Two Lines Anim
31 12/8, Fr Periodic oscillations in lossless TL ckts Kudeki Lec 31 MP31
Open Open Anim
Open Short Anim
32 12/11, Mo Input impedance and microwave resonators Lec 32-39 Kudeki Lec 32 MP32
33 12/13, We TL circuits with half- and quarter-wave transformers Tutorial 10 Kudeki Lec 33 MP33
34 12/15, Fr Line impedance, generalized reflection coefficient, Smith Chart Lab Demo: TL in Frequency Domain
Lab Demo Recordings		 Kudeki Lec 34 MP34
 AARL Smith Chart
 Smith Chart Tool
 Smith Chart
12/18, Mo Exam 3    
35 12/20, We Smith Chart examples Kudeki Lec 35 MP35
36 12/22, Fr Smith Chart and VSWR Kudeki Lec 36 MP36
37 12/25, Mo Smith Chart and impedance matching Kudeki Lec 37 MP37
38 12/27, We Distribution networks Kudeki Lec 38 MP38
39 12/29, Fr Lossy lines Kudeki Lec 39 MP39
  Final Exam Review