EE 4301: Electromagnetic Engineering I

Spring 2011

Professor C. D. Cantrell, UT-Dallas

Notes

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o Rationale and overview of EE 4301
o Electrostatics
     Cylindrical coordinates
     Spherical polar coordinates
     Prof. Cantrell's article on vectors
     Average power in terms of phasors
     Vector analysis
     Formulas for vector operators
o Work, potential, formulas for vector differential operators, and numerical evaluation of same
o Capacitance
o Magnetostatics
o Maxwell's equations
o Plane waves
     QuickTime movie showing wave motion of E and H
     QuickTime movie showing propagation in a general direction
     QuickTime movie showing circular polarization
     QuickTime movie showing attenuation as a wave propagates into an imperfect conductor (note that E and H are not in phase!)
o Spherical waves
oTransmission lines
     Notes on transmission lines
     Transmission line simulations showing the development of a long pulse and its reflections in 3-d
o Electromagnetic radiation and antennas
     QuickTime movie showing field lines of E originating from a charged particle moving at 0.1 c (This and the following movies were made with a program for the Macintosh written by Professor Blas Cabrera of Stanford University)
     QuickTime movie showing field lines of E originating from a charged particle that is initially at rest, and is suddenly accelerated to a speed of 0.25 c. Note the "kinks"; they occur on the surface of a sphere of radius R = ct, and represent a very short burst of radiation seen at a distance R and time t.
     QuickTime movie showing field lines of E originating from an oscillating charged particle with a maximum speed of 0.25 c, mostly showing the radiation zone
     QuickTime movie showing field lines of E originating from an oscillating charged particle, mostly in the near zone and the induction zone
o Numerical integration spreadsheet
o Using Excel to solve Laplace's equation
o Mathematica notebook of moving electromagnetic plane waves
o Review problems on plane waves
o Guided waves