CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

EE 151 Electromagnetic Engineering

Spring 2005
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Announcements

  • You can pick up the graded final exam in the box outside room 238 Moore.
  • Lecture notes on vector potentials is posted.
  • Homework 6 was due in Thursday in class. But we will take it as late as Friday without penalty.
  • Final Exam is in class on Tuesday 5/31/05, 1.5 hours, open textbook, notes and homeworks.
  • Quiz 4 solution  posted.
  • Midterm solution posted.
  • Here are some reading materials on diffractions from Goodman’s book.
  • Homework 3 and 4 Solutions and Quiz 1-3 Solutions are posted.
  • 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. To install FEMLAB: first download and install MATLAB from software.caltech.edu; then follow the installation procedure given in this document.

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Homeworks

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Reading Assignments

  • Week 1: Chapters 2 and 3. All sections.
  • Week 2: Chapter 4. Sections 1,2,3,7,8.
                  Chapter 5. Sections 4.
                  Chapter 6. Sections 1-4. (Chapter 5. Section 7-10, in 6th edition)
                  Chapter 8. Sections 1-5.
  • Week 3: Chapter 9. Sections 1-7.
                  Chapter 10. Sections 1-4.
                  Chapter 12. Sections 1-4. (Chapter 11. Section 1-4, in 6th edition)
  • Week 4: Chapter 13. Sections 1,4,7,8. (Chapter 12. Section 1,4,6, in 6th edition)
                  For diffraction, besides the lecture notes, you can read Introduction to Fourier Optics, by Joseph W. Goodman.
  • Week 6: Chapter 14. Sections 2-5.
  • Week 7: Chapter 10. Section on vector potentials. Chapter 14. Section on antennas.

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Course Information

 

Time and Place

Tuesday and Thursday, 10:30  to 11:55 AM, 080 Moore (Building 93)

Instructor

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

Teaching Assistants

TA Lectures: Wednesday 7-8pm, 080 Moore.

Office Hours: Monday 5-7pm, Friday 3-5pm, 238 Moore.

Jae-Woo Choi

choijw@caltech.edu

Zhenyu Li
x3889, zhenyu@caltech.edu

Textbook

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

Homework

Homework due in class every Tuesday. There will be seven 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; maybe some quizzes..

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Course Outline 

  • Statics 
  • Maxwell's Equations 
  • Plane waves; polarization 
  • Energy; Power flow; Poynting vector 
  • Propagation in lossy and dielectric media 
  • Dispersion 
  • Reflection and refraction at interfaces 
  • Waveguides; transmission lines; fibers 
  • Cavities 
  • Retarded potentials; Radiation; Antennas 
  • Gratings and Diffractions

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