PHSX 423
Xiaobing Zhou, Associate Professor

Lecture (PHSX 423): Monday/Wednesday/Friday 12:00 am - 12:50 pm at ELC 106

Instructor: Dr Xiaobing Zhou, Email: xzhou@mtech.edu, Tel: 496-4350

Office Hours: M/W/F 4:00pm -5:00pm, ELC 304

Textbook (required):
Cheng, D. K., Field and Wave Electromagnetics, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, 1992.

References (recommended):

1. Lonngren, K. E. and S. V. Savov, Fundamentals of Electromagnetics with MATLAB, SciTech, 2005.
2. Hayt, Jr., W. H., and John A. Buck, Engineering Electromagnetics, 7^th edition, McGraw Hill Higher Education, Boston, 2006.
3. Balanis, C., Advanced Engineering Electromagnetics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1989. (ISBN 0-471-62194-3).
4. Peterson, A. F. , S. L. Ray, R. Mittra, Computational Methods for Electromagnetics, Wiley-IEEE Press, December 1997, ISBN: 0-7803-1122-1.
5. Electromagnetic Theory
   

Course Description:
This is an advanced course on electricity and magnetism for upper level and graduate students. Calculus of vector and field will be introduced or reviewed. Focus will be on basic concepts and laws of electrostatics and magnetostatics; boundary value problems; derivation of capacitance and inductance; non-time varying Maxwell's equations; relationship between force, charge, and motion in electric and magnetic fields; time-varying electric and magnetic fields; time varying Maxwell's equations; derivations of the wave equations  or time harmonic fields; plane wave solution of the wave equations; interaction of plane electromagnetic waves with dielectric boundaries, perfect conducting boundaries, and lossy media boundaries; and theory and application of transmission lines for EM signal transmission.

Prerequisites:
Prerequisites: PHSX 237 (General Physics--Electricity, magnetism, and motion) and Math 2236 (Differential Equations);
Corequisites: PHSX 453(Methods of Theoretical Physics) or M 405(Advanced Engineering Mathematics) or EE3550 (Electric Circuits II).

Topics:

Vectors Algebra and Vector Calculus
Electrostatics: Laws and Relationships of Static Electric Field
Solution of Electrostatic Problems
DC Circuit Theory and Electrostatics: Relationships
Magnetostatics: Static Magnetic Field
Time-varying Fields and Maxwell’s Equations
Plane Electromagnetic Waves
Theory and Applications of Transmission Lines

Objectives:

Course outcomings (complying with ABET A-K):
After this course, you (the student) should have

Homework:
Homework will generally be assigned on Wednesday and due the following Wednesday; otherwise, just follow the announcement in classes or the specified date on the homework sheet. Homework will be put in the subdirectory "Homework" under the directory "Course Documents" on the BlackBoard. Answer keys to the homework questions are given at the end of the textbook. Group discussing in doing homework is permitted but copying answers from others is prohibited. Copied homework will be graded as “zero” or “F”. Both sides will be graded “F” because nobody knows who copies whose – thus do not let anybody copy your homework. No homework will be dropped in calculating your course grade. Late homework will not be accepted absolutely. Not all questions in each homework assignment will be graded. Graded questions in each homework assignment will total 100 pts.

Grade Policy:

Your final grade for the course will depend on your active participation, ability to understand and apply the various concepts, laws, relationships, physical process, and vector analysis in solving electromagnetics problems. The final grade of the course will be determined approximately as follows:

Homework: 20%
Tests (2-4):   45%
Final exam: 30%