Introduction. Static electric field – Electric field, Electric scalar potential, Electric flux density, Gauss law and its applications; Static magnetic field – Biot-Savarts law, Ampere circuital law,, Lorentz force, magnetic vector potential; Electric and magnetic field in materials – Poisson’s and Laplace’s equations, Electric polarization, Capacitance, Electrostatic energy and energy density, Boundary conditions for electric fields, Ohms law, Continuity equation, Inductance, Boundary conditions for magnetic fields; Time varying electric and magnetic field – Induced e.m.f., Faraday’s law, displacement current, Maxwell’s law, Pointing vector and flow of Power; Electromagnetic waves: Uniform plane waves in perfect dielectric and lossy medium, reflection, refraction, skin effect, phase and group velocities; Transmission lines: characteristic impedance, impedance transformation, Smith chart, impedance matching, S parameters, pulse excitation; Waveguides: modes in rectangular waveguides, boundary conditions, cut-off frequencies, dispersion relations. Basics of propagation in dielectric waveguide and optical fibers. Basics of Antennas: Dipole antennas; radiation pattern; antenna gain. |
Texts/Reference Books:
- D. J. Griffiths, ‘Introduction to Electrodynamics’, Addison Wesley, 1999.
- D. K. Cheng, ‘Field and Wave Electromagnetics’, Addison Wesley, 1999.
- W. H. Hayt, ‘Engineering Electromagnetic’, Fifth Edition. TMH, 1999.
- N. N. Rao, ‘Elements of Engineering Electromagnetics’, Pearson Education, Inc, 2004.
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