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
Slides
Recording
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
Recording
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
Slides
Recording part 1
Recording part 2
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
Slides
Recording
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
Recording
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
Recording
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
Recording
8 Feb 8 Quiz 1Solutions 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
Recording
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)
Recording
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
Recording
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
Recording
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
Recording
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
Lecture notes
Lecture note
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
Recording
18 Apr 1 Electromagnetic wave equation in 1D: uniform plane wave
Electromagnetic wave equation in 3D
Griff. ch 9
(Electromagnetic Waves)
Lecture note
Recording
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
Recording
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)
Recording
21 Apr 12 Reflection at planar interface: oblique incidence
Quiz
Griff. ch 9
Recording
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
Lecture notes
Recording (lecture 22)
Recording (lecture 23)


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.