ECE 3030 Electromagnetic Fields and Waves

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:

  1. Three weekly lectures
  2. One weekly section
  3. Two prelim exams and one final exam
An array of chip-scale patch antennas
Radiation from a dipole antenna
Pattern of light diffraction from a sphere
Integrated optical waveguide
Light diffraction from an aperture
Fields of a dipole