ECE 3030 Contents
Syllabus and Course Details
Lecture Notes and Handouts
Homework and Exams
Note: Projects and Labs are not available for this course.
Course Description
This is a comprehensive introductory undergraduate level course on electromagnetism.
Topics covered include Maxwell’s equations, electrostatics and magnetostatics, fields of charge distributions, fields near conductors, method of images, material polarization and dielectrics, fields of current distributions, electric and magnetic dipoles, power and energy in electromagnetism, electromagnetic work, electrodynamics, electromagnetic waves, wave polarization, wave propagation in isotropic and anisotropic media, wave propagation in plasmas, reflection, transmission, and refraction of waves at media interfaces, wave propagation in periodic structures and photonic bandgaps, guided waves in transmission lines, microwave circuits and smith charts, transients in transmission lines, metallic waveguides, dielectric waveguides, radiation and antennas, wire antennas, antenna arrays, diffraction, aperture antennas.
Instructor(s)
Farhan Rana
316 Phillips Hall, Ithaca, NY
Phone: 607-255-6317
Email: farhan.rana at cornell.edu
Course Level
Undergraduate (junior level)
As Offered In
Fall 2007
Required Text(s)
None.
Course Structure
The course consists of:
- Three weekly lectures
- One weekly section
- Two prelim exams and one final exam





