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Course Content

Instructor: Dr. Farid Farahmand

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Chapter 1*: SI Units, Force, Coulomb's Law, Electric fields, magnetic fields, permeability, permittivity, Conductivity, Magnetism, Magnetic Materials, Tesla, waves and their properties, conductivity, Wave Equations. Up to 1.5

Practice: complex numbers (read on your own) / Review 1.6 & 1.7

Problems: Textbook: 4, 7, 8, 18, 20 ; Schaum's: Sections 1.6 and 1.7 and related problems

Chapter 2*:Transmission lines, characteristic impedance,

Class 1: Section 2.1-2.5 : Transmission lines guide electromagnetic signals; what makdes these two port networks transmission lines; what do they do to teh signals; their characteristics, modeling TL, transmission line equation, wave equations.

Problems: Textbook: Do problems: 2.4, 2.14, 2.16, 2.21, 2.23, 2.26, 2.28, 2.31, 2.34 ;

Schaum's: Chapter 15: try Solved Problems 15.1-15.7; Review Chapter 14 section 12.

On Smith Chart and Bounce Diagram - Related problems: 15.10, 15.12, 15.17, 15.18, 15.23

Chapter 4*:Electrostatics

Problems: Textbook: Do problems: 1,3,9,15,19, 25,32,41

Textbook: Examples: 4-7, 4-4, 4-3,

Make a CMAP for electric properties (V,I,R) and magnetism (E,D, & constitutive parameters), power, energy, & work.

In Textbook skip: 4-6.1, 4-7.1

Schaum's Chapter 4: 1,3,5,4,8,11,14

Midterm Review:

Please review Schaum's TABLE 1-3 and learn about units. Chapter 3: 1,2,4,6,8,11,12,20
Chapter 4: 1,3,5,4,8,11,14
Chapter 5: 1-11, 20, 21, 23
Chapter 6: 1,2,6,8,10,11,13
Chapter 8: 4,5,7,8,12,17,21,22
Chapter 9: solved problem 6 (review section 9.6); UNDERSTAND solved problem 9.1

Review Chapter 7 problems

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Chapter 5*:Magnetostatics

Textbook: Important Examples: 5-2,5-3,

Skip in Textbook: 5-1.2, 5-4 (just learn about magnetic flux); 5-5 (learn the basic idea and concept of magnetic susceptibility and table 5-2); 5-8

Schaum's: Chapter 10: try Solved Problems 1,2,4,5,6,7,9

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Chapter 6*:Time Varying Fields

Applets: Please make sure you review the discussed applets in class!

Textbook: Important Examples: All; Do problems 6.3, 6.1, 6.5, 6.11

Skip the following Sections: 6.10-6-11

Schaum's: Chapter 13: : try Solved Problems 5,6,7,10,11,13,14; 1,2,3 (displacement current)

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Chapter 7*:Plane Wave Propagation up to 7.3-3 (Elliptical Polarization)

Textbook: Important Examples: All; Review problems 7.1 - 7.23