CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING EE 151 Electromagnetic Engineering Winter 2004 _________________________________________________________

Announcements

• The graded finals can be picked up in 238 Moore.
  
• The final will be at 10:30am on Tuesday March 16th, in the classroom.
  
• As a supplementary material on dielectric slab waveguides, here is a weblink http://web.mit.edu/6.013_book/www/chapter13/13.5.html.
  
• Midterm solution is posted in the handout section.
• The FEMLAB installation files are now available at http://sunoptics.caltech.edu/ee151w04/software/femlab/  (users must have a caltech IP; 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 6.5 from software.caltech.edu; then follow the installation procedure given in this document.
  
  

• Week 1: Chapters 2 and 3. All sections.
• Week 2: Chapter 4. Sections 1,2,3,7,8.
                Chapter 5. Sections 1,2,3,7,9,10.
                Chapter 8. Sections 1,2,3,4,5.
• Week 3: Chapter 10. Sections 1,2,3,4.
                Chapter 11. Sections 1,2,3.
• Week 4: Chapter 9. Sections 1,2,3,4.
                Chapter 11. Sections 4,5. (Chapter 12. Section 12.4 on plane wave propagation in general directions.)
• Week 6: Chapter 12. Sections 1,4,5.
• Week 7: Chapter 12. Sections 2,3,6.
                Chapter 14. Sections 1,2,3,4,5.

Time and Place

Thuesday and Thursday, 10:30  to 11:55 AM, 142 Keck Laboratories (Building 78)

Instructor

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

Teaching Assistants

TA Lectures: Wednesday 7-8pm, 239 Moore.

Office Hours: Monday 7-9pm, Friday 2-3pm, 250 Moore.

Eric Ostby
x3889, eostby@sunoptics.caltech.edu

Zhenyu Li
x3889, zhenyu@caltech.edu

Textbook

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

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: Thursday, February 5th.
Final: Week 10.
Grading: 33% homework; 33% midterm; 33% final; maybe some quizzes..

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