ECE 390- Electric and Magnetic Fields
Catalog description: Electric and magnetic fields. Static and quasi-static
electric and magnetic fields.
Prerequisites:
By course: MTH 255, ENGR 203
By topic: Vector Algebra, Vector Calculus, Basic Circuit Analysis, Basic knowledge
of trigonometry and calculus.
Courses that require this as a prerequisite: ECE 331, ECE 391
Credits: 4 Terms Offered: Fall
Instructors:
Primary: R. Settaluri
Secondary: A. Weisshaar
Text book: David K. Cheng, Field and Wave Electromagnetics Addison-Wesley
Publishing Company, 2nd edition, 1992, ISBN: 0-201-12819-5.
Course Learning Objectives:
Students must demonstrate the ability to:
- Identify the characteristics of static electric and magnetic fields in
free space and material media. (ABET Outcomes: a, e, m)
- Identify the characteristics of static magnetic fields in free space and
material media. (ABET Outcomes: a, e, m)
- State Maxwell's equations and apply to solve a variety of boundary value
problems involving method of images and method of separation of variables.
(ABET Outcomes: a, e, m)
- Calculate the capacitance, inductance and the resistance of several configurations
using electromagnetic concepts. (ABET Outcomes: a, c, e)
Topics
- Introduction, review of vector analysis.
- Static electric fields in free space: Coulomb's law, Gauss's law, and electric
potential, electric dipole.
- Static electric fields in presence of material medium: conductors, dielectrics,
polarization, electric flux density, and dielectric constant.
- Boundary conditions, capacitance, electrostatic energy, Poisson's and Laplace's
equations. Boundary value problems, method of images, separation of variables.
- Steady electric currents, static magnetic fields in free space, Ampere's
circuital law, vector magnetic potential.
- Biot-Savart law, magnetic dipole, magnetization, and magnetic materials.
- Permeability, boundary conditions magnetic circuits. Inductance, magnetic
energy and forces.
Structure: Two 110-minute lectures and a two-hour help-session per week.
Original: 9/00
Revised: 9/01