Course – Electromagnetic Field Thoery

Main Topics to be covered

Vector Analysis: Vector Algebra, Coordinate Systems and Transformation, Vector Calculus
Electrostatic Fields: Coulomb’s Law, Gauss’s Law, Electric Potential, An Electric Dipole, Maxwell’s First equation
Electric Fields in Material Space: Properties of Materials, Electric Current, Dielectrics, Boundary Conditions
Poisson’s and Laplace’s equation: Derivation of Poisson’s and Laplace’s equations, Resistance and Capacitance
Magnetostatics Fields: Biot-Savart’s Law, Ampere’s Circuit Law, Maxwell’s Equation, Magnetic Potential
Magnetic Forces, Materials and Devices: Magnetic Force, Magnetic Torque, A magnetic Dipole, Boundary Conditions, Inductors and Inductances, Magnetic Energy
Maxwell’s Equation and Wave Propagation: Faraday’s Law, Motional EMFs, Displacement Current, Maxwell’s Equations in Final Form, Time- Varying Potentials
Plane Electromagnetic Waves: Uniform plane waves, phase and group velocity, wave impedance.
dielectric and conducting media, polarization, energy and Poynting vector.