ECE 5310 Contents

Syllabus and Course Details
Lecture Notes and Handouts
Homework and Exams

Note: Projects and Labs are not available for this course.

Lecture Notes and Handouts

• Handout 1 [PDF]: Applications of electromagnetic fields and waves in industry and research.
• Handout 2 [PDF]: Maxwell’s equations in integral and differential forms, electrostatics and magnetostatics, electroquasistatics and magnetoquasistatics.
• Handout 3 [PDF]: Electrostatics, applications of Gauss’ Law in problem solving, applications of the superposition principle in problem solving, some simple charge distributions.
• Handout 4 [PDF]: Electric scalar potential, Poisson equation, Laplace equation, superposition principle, problem solving.
• Handout 5 [PDF]: Electrical conduction and perfect metals in electroquasistatics, solution of Laplace and Poisson equations with metal electrodes, boundary conditions, dielectric relaxation, image charges and method of images.
• Handout 6 [PDF]: Capacitance, problems in Cartesian, Cylindrical and Spherical coordinates.
• Handout 7 [PDF]: Material polarization, polarization charge and current densities, mathematics of polarization in electromagnetism, dielectrics vs conductors, boundary conditions.
• Handout 8 [PDF]: Problems and examples involving material polarization, dielectrics, and boundary conditions.
• Handout 9 [PDF]: Magnetoquasistatics, Ampere’s law, the vector potential, the vector Poisson equation, Biot-Savart law, magnetic fields of some simple current distributions, magnetic flux and the vector potential.
• Handout 10 [PDF]: Magnetoquasistatics in the presence of perfect metals, boundary conditions, method of images, inductance, inductances of some simple structures.
• Handout 11 [PDF]: Faraday’s Law and electromagnetic Induction, non-uniqueness of voltages in magnetoquasistatics, current-charge continuity equation in electromagnetism, power-energy continuity equation in electromagnetism, Poynting’s vector, electromagnetic energy and power flow and connection with electrical circuit theory.
• Handout 12 [PDF]: Energy, forces, and work in electromagnetics, forces between charged dielectrics and conductors, electromagnetic energy, forces, and work in closed systems and systems connected to voltage sources.
• Handout 13 [PDF]: Electromagnetic wave equation, uniform plane wave solutions, Poynting vector.
• Handout 14 [PDF]: Time-harmonic electromagnetic fields, phasors, complex version of Maxwell’s equations, complex Poynting vector.
• Handout 15 [PDF]: Polarization states of plane waves, linearly polarized waves, circularly polarized waves, elliptically polarized waves, left-hand and right-hand circularly (or elliptically) polarized waves.