Spring 2008

Professor C. D. Cantrell, UT-Dallas

Topics for Midterm Exam 3

EMAG CONCEPTS

Wave equation in 1 dimension
   Single-frequency solutions
      Temporal frequency
      Spatial frequency

Wave equation in 3 dimensions
   Plane waves in conducting media
   Skin depth
      Surface resistance
      
Polarization of electromagnetic waves
   Plane and circular polarization
   Wire-grid polarizer
   Dichroic materials
   Malus' law

Parallel-plate waveguide
   Application of boundary conditions to determine the directions of 
      electric and magnetic fields
   Parallel-plate waveguide as a polarization-sensitive
      device
      
Transmission lines
   Derivation from Maxwell's equations for parallel-plate line
      Inductance and capacitance per unit length
      Characteristic impedance
      Relation between V+ and I+ vs. relation between V- and I-
   Time-dependent analysis of transmission lines
      Voltage reflection coefficient
         Terminated line
         Pulse on a precharged line
         Tolerance for terminating impedance
      Voltage transmission coefficient
      Current reflection and transmission coefficients
      E and H fields of incident, reflected and transmitted waves
      Reflected power
      Power transferred to a load
      Bounce diagram
      Input acceptance function
      Concept of settling time
      Cascaded transmission lines
         Application to reflection of plane waves at normal incidence on 
            a dielectric interface
      Transmission line with a discontinuity
      Time-domain reflectometry
      
Radiation
   Feynman's formula for the electric and magnetic fields of a moving 
      charge


VECTOR CALCULUS

All vector calculus topics from MT 1 and MT 2