ECE 230, Winter 2021
Fields and waves
Instructor
Sayak Bhattacharya
Office hour: By appointment (over Google meet)
E-mail: sayak|at|iiitd.ac.in
Lectures: Mon,Thu 2:30-4:00pm
Tutorials: Wed 12:00-1:00pm (Online)
Teaching Assistants
TBA
Office hours: By appointment
Announcements
Download assignment 2 here! Deadline 11 pm, April 6.
Download assignment 1 here! Deadline 6 pm, March 25.
Course webpage online! The first lecture 'll be on Mon, Jan. 11, 2021.
Lectures
S. No. | Date | Topic | Advised Reading | Lectures |
1 | Jan 11 | Course outline & grading policy, Introduction to waves
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2 | Jan 18 | Gravitation vs. Electrostatics, How fast does an electron move Accelerated charge and origin of EM waves, A glimpse of transmission line (situations in which KCL and KVL do not work!) Introduction to scalar and vector fields A brief history of Electromagnetism | Griff. ch 1, Sad. ch 1,2 Feyn. ch 1 Watch this! | Slides
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3 | Jan 21 | Gradient operator and its physical interpretation, level surface, directional derivative Relation between electrostatic field and potential Line integral and conservative fields Different coordinate systems Line integral and conservative fields Flux of a vector field, Divergence operator: definition and physical interpretation | Griff. ch 1, Sad. ch 2, 3, Feyn ch. 2
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4 | Jan 25 | Gauss's divergence theorem, Laplacian operator Earnshaw's theorem and Paul trap Curl operator and Stoke's theorem
| Griff. ch 1, Sad. ch 2, 3, Feyn ch. 2
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5 | Jan 28 | Dirac delta function in 3D & volume charge density of point charges How much is the divergence of a radially directed inverse square function Coulomb's law and Gauss's law, Poisson's equation and Laplace's equation | Griff. ch 1, ch 2 | Lecture note Slides
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6 | Feb 1 | Electrostatic potential, potential due to charge distribution, Equipotential surface, Demo starts at 44:00 Perfect conductors, Electric field and volume charge inside a perfect conductor, perfect conductors as equipotentials Electrostatic boundary conditions
| Griff. ch 2 | Lecture note
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7 | Feb 4 | Energy of an assembly of point-charges, Electrostatic energy density, Electrostatic field inside a material Induced dipole and dipole moment of polar molecules Polarization vector
| For the first two topics: Griff. ch 2; Griff. ch 4 for the rest | Lecture note
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8 | Feb 8 | Quiz 1 | Solutions to be posted soon |
| 9 | Feb 11 | Potential due to a polarized dielectric, Surface and volume bound charge densities, Physical interpretation of bound charges Gauss's law in a dielectric material, Displacement density, Electrical susceptibility, Relative permittivity
| Griff. ch 4 | Lecture note
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10 | Feb 15 | Lorentz force law, demo at 14:08 , Parallel and anti-parallel currents, demo at 15:38 Charged particles in non-uniform magnetic fields, Greatest Electromagnetic show on the earth: Aurora Force on a current-carrying wire, surface and volume current density Eqn. of continuity Relaxation time: conductors and insulators
| Griff. ch 5 | Lecture note (part of lecture 11 included)
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11 | Feb 18 | Biot-Savart Law,Divergence and curl of magnetic field, Ampere's law Magnetic vector potential and its non-uniqueness
| Griff. ch 5 | Lecture note
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12 | Feb 22 | Boundary conditions for tangential and normal components of magnetic field Magnetic field in matter Magnetic dipole in a uniform magnetic field Force on a magnetic dipole in a non-uniform magnetic field: paramagnetismDemo starts at 41:00 (liquid hanging from a magnet!) Magnetization, Ampere's law for magnetized materials | Griff. ch 5 for magnetic field boundary conditions, Griff. ch 6 for the rest | Lecture note
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13 | Feb 25 | Magnetic suspetibility, permeability, diamagnetism Doubt clearance session | Griff. ch 6 |
| 14 | Mar 15 | EMF and Faraday's law of induction A glitch in Ampere's law: Introduction to Electrodynamics, Maxwell's modification to Ampere's law Maxwell's equations: differential form Potentials in Electrodynamics | Griff. ch 7 | Lecture note
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15 | Mar 18 | Maxwell's equation: integral form, time domain and frequency domain representation EM wave propagation: a physical picture, Polarization of EM waves, Displacement current High frequency behavior of circuits: introduction to transmission line Working mechanism of a transmitting antenna: Demo 1, Demo 2 Working mechanism of a receiving antenna: Demo | Griff. ch 10.1 | Lecture note
| 16 | Mar 22 | Complex permittivity Quiz 2
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| 17 | Mar 25 | Dispersive medium: origin and frequency dependence of dielectric constant Scalar wave equation Electromagnetic wave equation, Helmholtz equation
| Griff. ch 9 (Electromagnetic Waves) | Lecture note
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18 | Apr 1 | Electromagnetic wave equation in 1D: uniform plane wave Electromagnetic wave equation in 3D
| Griff. ch 9 (Electromagnetic Waves) | Lecture note
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19 | Apr 5 | Poynting's theorem Electromagnetic waves in materials: attenuation in conducting materials, skin depth
| Poynting's theorem: Griff. ch 8, Griff. ch 9 for the rest
| Lecture note
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20 | Apr 8 | Standing wave and SWR Reflection at planar interface: normal incidence
| Griff. ch 9, lecture notes | Lecture note (contains notes for the next lecture as well)
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21 | Apr 12 | Reflection at planar interface: oblique incidence Quiz
| Griff. ch 9 |
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22, 23 | Apr 15, 19 | Transmission lines: Why KCL and KVL can't be applied at high frequencies, Electromagnetic origin of distributed transmission line parameters Transmission line equations: voltage and current waves, propagation velocity, lossless line Characteristic impedance and input impedance Reflection coefficient, VSWR, Short circuit and open circuit in transmission lines
| Sad. and lecture notes
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Tutorials
Tutorial 1
Tutorial 2
Tutorial 3
Tutorial 4
Tutorial 5
Tutorial 6
References
David J. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics, Pearson 4th Ed. (2015).
R. Feynman, R. Leighton, M. Sands, The Feynman Lectures on Physics (Vol II)
Matthew. N. O. Sadiku, Elements of Electromagnetics.
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