CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING EE 151 Electromagnetic Engineering Fall 2006 _________________________________________________________

 

Announcements

• Graded finals available to be picked up from the box.
• Final will be in class (Moore 070, 10:30AM-12:00PM) on Thursday (12/7).
• Homework will be due in class (Moore 070, 10:30AM) on Tuesday (12/5), followed by a 90 minute TA final review session.
• Final review notes are online.
• Pick up graded homeworks from the box in front of Moore 239.
• For problem 2 on homework 8, do not approximate r = z +/- t/2. Approximate it as r = z +/- t/2 + x^2/z.
• Quiz #3 Solution is posted.
• No TA lectures on Wednesday (11/22) or Monday (11/27).
• 11/16 Lecture Notes Part 1 and 11/16 Lecture Notes Part 2 are posted.
• 11/14 Lecture Notes are posted.
• Supplementary material on dielectric slab waveguides is available here.
• 11/02 Lecture Notes are posted.
• Midterm solution is posted.
• Midterm is this Thursday, 10/26.
• Midterm review notes are online.
• Quiz #2 Solution is posted.
• 10/19 Lecture Notes are posted.
• Typo in the second problem of the fourth homework set has been fixed.
• Reading material on diffraction from Goodman's book has been posted.
• 10/05 Lecture Notes are posted.
• Part c of the first problem on the second homework set has been restated.
• 10/03 Lecture Notes are posted.
• Quiz #1 Solution is posted.
• Assume Q=1C and d=1m for the fourth problem of the first homework set.
• Note location change for Wednesday TA lectures from 070 Moore to 239 Moore.
• The FEMLAB installation files are now available at http://sunoptics.caltech.edu/ee151s05/software/femlab/  (users must have a caltech IP; username and password will be given in class). The serial number and license file are also available in the directory. Do not unzip any files. Install using autorun.inf. Follow the procedure given in the installation guide.

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Handout and Homework

• Course Information
• Homework #1 (Solution)
• Homework #2 (Solution)
• Homework #3 (Solution)
• Homework #4 (Solution)
• Homework #5 (Solution)
• Homework #6 (Solution)
• Homework #7 (Solution)
• Homework #8 (Solution)

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Reading Assignments

• Week 1: Chapter 2. All sections.
                Chapter 3. All sections.
                Chapter 6. Sections 1-4.
  
• Week 2: Chapter 4. All sections.
                Chapter 5. Sections 1-4.
                Chapter 8. All sections.
                Chapter 9. Sections 1-4.
                Chapter 10. Sections 1-4.
  
• Week 3: Chapter 12. All sections.
  
• Week 4: Chapter 13. Sections 1-6.
                For diffraction, besides the lecture notes, you can read Introduction to Fourier Optics, by Joseph W. Goodman.
  
• Week 7: Chapter 14. Sections 1-7.
  
• Week 8: Chapter 10. Section 5.
                Chapter 13. Sections 7-8.
  
• Week 9: Chapter 14. Section 8.
  

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Course Information

 

Time and Place

Tuesday and Thursday, 10:30  to 11:55 AM, 070 Moore (Building 93)

Instructor

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

Teaching Assistants

TA Lectures: Wednesday 7 to 8 PM, 239 Moore

Office Hours: Monday 7 to 8 PM, 239 Moore
                     Friday 3 to 4 PM, 080 Moore

Jae-Woo Choi
x3889, choijw@caltech.edu

Textbook

Engineering Electromagnetics, William H. Hayt, Jr. and Hohn A. Buck, 7th Edition, McGraw Hill.

Other References

Electricity and Magnetism, Purcell. (Ph 1bc)

Div, Grad, Curl, and All That, Schey. (Ph 1bc)

Fizz 2a: Energy, Entropy and Waves, Goodstein. (Ph 2a)

Homework

Homework due in class every Tuesday. There will be eight homework sets.
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: Week 5.
Final: Week 10.
Grading: 33% homework, 33% midterm, 33% final, and some quizzes.

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Course Outline 

1. Statics (4)

2. Maxwell's Equations

3. Plane waves; polarization

4. Energy; Power flow; Poynting vector

5. Propagation in lossy and dielectric media (2)

6. Diffraction (2)

7. Dispersion

8. Reflection and refraction at interfaces

9. Waveguides; transmission lines; fibers (2)

10. Cavities

11. Retarded potentials; Radiation; Antennas (2)

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