CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING EE 151 Electromagnetic Engineering Winter 2002 _________________________________________________________

Announcements

3/09/02.  Last year's final and solutions are posted.
3/11/02.  HW# 4,5,6,7 solutions are posted.

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Time and Place

Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 2:00 to 3:00 PM, 142 Keck Laboratories(Building 78) (Campus Map)

Instructor

Professor Demetri Psaltis
262 Moore, x4856, psaltis@sunoptics.caltech.edu

Teaching Assistants

Hung-Te Hsieh
250 Moore, x3888, htehsieh@sunoptics.caltech.edu

Vijay Gupta
Office Hours:  Thursday 8-10pm
238 Moore, x3889, gupta@its.caltech.edu

Zhenyu Li
Office Hours: Wednesday 8-10pm
238 Moore, x3889, zhenyu@its.caltech.edu

Textbook

Engineering Electromagnetics, William H. Hayt, Jr. and Hohn A. Buck, 6th Edition, McGraw Hill, 2001.

Homework

Homework due in class every Friday. No homework the first week.
Collaboration policy: Collaboration is allowed. You must write your own homework independently.
Late homework policy: 25% off for up to one week late.

Exams and Grading

Midterm:    Wednesday, Feb 6.
Final:          Wednesday,  March 13.
Grading:     30% homework; 30% midterm; 30% final; 10% quizzes. No labs this year.

Introduction, Statics, History

Maxwell’s Equations

Plane waves; polarization

Energy; Power flow; Poynting vector

Propagation in lossy and dielectric media

Reflection and refraction at interfaces

Waveguides; transmission lines; fibers

Numerical Techniques

Retarded potentials; Radiation; Antennas

Selected topics: Cavities or gratings

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• Handout #1 (pdf)

• Homework #1 (Problem Set) (Solutions)
• Homework #2 (Problem Set) (Solutions)
• Homework #3 (Problem Set) (Solutions)
• Homework #4 (Problem Set) (Solutions)
• Homework #5 (Problem Set) (Solutions)
• Homework #6 Problem 14.17, 14.18, 14.19 in Hayt and Buck. (Solutions)
• Misprint in the texbook: for problem 14.19, the refractive indices should be n1 > n3 > n2.
• Homework #7 (Problem Set) (Solutions)
• Last year's final and solutions.

• Lecture #1: Chapter 2, 3.
• Lecture #2,3: Chapter 8.1-8.4, Chapter 9.1-9.4.
• Lecture #4: Chapter 10.1.
• Lecture #5,6: Chapter 10.2-10.4.
• Lecture #7,8: Chapter 11.
• Reflection and Refraction: Chapter 12.
• Waveguide: Chapter 14.
• Dispersion: Chapter 12.6.
• Retarded Vector Potential and Antenna: Chapter 8.6(Static), Chapter 10.5, Chapter 14.6.