ECE 604 Electromagnetic Field Theory

Instructor: Professor W.C. Chew, x4-4502, Wang 3053, wcchew@purdue.edu

Office Hours: Tue-Thu, 3-4:30 pm

TA (unofficial):  Boyuan ZHANG (zhan3241) and Jie ZHU (zhu797)

Grader:  Gregory Chang changg@purdue.edu

Secretary:  Chris Ramsey, Wang 2080, cramsey@purdue.edu

Textbook: Fields and Waves in Communication Electronics, S. Ramo, J.R. Whinnery, and T. Van Duzer, 3rd Ed.

Supplementary Texts: Electromagnetic Wave Theory, J.A. Kong.  ECE 350X notes.  Theory of Optical and Microwave Guides notes.  Waves and Fields in Inhomogeneous Media, Chap. 1.  Classical Electrodynamics, J.D. Jackson.  Electromagnetic Noise and Quantum Optical Measurements, H.A. Haus.

Fall 2018, FRNY B124, Tue-Thu 1:30 – 2:45 pm

Tentative Course Outline  (Revised Nov 28, 2018)

 

Tuesday

Thursday

Week 1, Aug 21

1 Introduction, electrostatics, Coulomb’s and Gauss’s laws

2 Gauss’s law in differential form, Faraday’s law, constitutive relations, scalar potential, Poisson’s and Laplace’s equations

Week 2, Aug 28

3 Boundary conditions, electric energy

4 Boundary conditions, unconventional way

Week 3, September 4

 

5 Green’s function, uniqueness theorem

6 Magnetic force, Biot-Savart law

Week 4, September 11

Review of examples and homeworks

EXAM 1, Sep 13, 2018

Week 5, September 18

7 Magnetic scalar potential, boundary condition, magnetic energy, inductance

8 Maxwell’s equations, integral and differential form, boundary condition

Week 6, September 25

9 Constitutive relations, energy and power

10 Time harmonic field, complex power

Week 7, Oct 2

11 Transmission lines

12 Transmission lines—impedance matching

Week 8, Oct 9

FALL BREAK

EXAM 2, Oct 11, 2018

Week 9, October 16

13 Terminated transmission line, Smith Chart, VSWR

14 Multi-section transmission line, uniform plane wave

Week 10, October 23

15 Drude-Lorentz-Sommerfeld model

16 Phase and group velocity, energy density dispersive media

Week 11, October 30

 

17 Duality, reflection and transmission, TIR, Brewster, surface plasmon polariton

18 Uniform plane wave and transmission line homomorphism, wave polarization

Week 12, November 6

19 Waveguides, TE and TM modes

20 Radiation by antennas and  sources, dipole array

Week 13, November 13

Review of examples and homeworks

EXAM 3, Nov 15, 2018

Week 14, November 20

21 Uniqueness principle and image theorem

THANKSGIVING

Week 15, November 27

22 Reciprocity theorem. Paraxial wave equation

23 Rayleigh scattering, Mie scattering

Week 16, December 4

24 Quantum theory of light

25 Coherent state of light

Week 17, December 11

FINAL EXAM TBD

 

HW=100 pts, EXAMS 1, 2, 3=300 pts, FINAL EXAM=200 pts, TOTAL=600 pts