SUBJECT

Name of Faculty

WAVE THEORY PROPAGATION

JAYA RAJESH

Year: S.E

SEMESTER

IV

Hours per week

Unit/Lesson

Unit no.

University Syllabus

College TT
Objective of unit

Fundamental laws of electromagnetic fields:

Coulombs law, Gausss law,
Bio-Savarts law, Amperes law, Poissons and
Laplace equations

Boundary conditions: Static electric and

Basic Laws of electromagnetic magnetic fields
& Maxwells equations

2
8

Maxwells equations: Integral and differential

form for static and time
varying fields and its interpretations
Applications of electromagnetic fields: Ink-jet
printer, CRO,

Uniform plane wave equation

and power balance

To get Knowledge Dec 2013 Q-1(i), Q6

(i)
about coloumbs
law, ampere law,
stokes theorem
divergence theorem

Dec 2013 Q-2( c)

Dec 2013 Q-2(a), Q6(iii)

8
Solution of wave equations: Partially
conducting media, perfect dielectrics
and good conductors, concept of skin dept
Electromagnetic Power: Poynting Vector and
Power Flow in free space and
in dielectric, conducting media

Achievement

Unit TEST I

Wave equation: Derivation and its solution in

Cartesian co-ordinates
2

University question Unit Test I/IIQuestion

asked
asked

To get Knowledge
about wave
equations

Dec 2013 Q-1(ii)

Dec 2013 Q-4(a)

Unit TEST I

YES

Unit TEST I

Unit TEST I

YES

Plane Wave Propagation

Computational
Electromagnetics

Radio Wave Propagation

Sky Wave Propagation

Polarization of wave; Elliptical. Linear and

Circular
Propagation in different mediums: Behavior of
waves for normal and
oblique incidence in dielectrics and conducting
media, propagation in
dispersive media
Finite Difference Method (FDM):Neumann
type and mixed boundary
conditions, Iterative solution of finite
difference
equations,
using
Finite Element
Methodsolutions
(FEM): Triangular
mesh
configuration, Finite
element discretization, Element governing
equations, Assembling all
equations and solving resulting equations
Method of Moment (MOM):Field calculations
of conducting wire, parallel
conducting wires and complicated geometries
Types of wave propagation: Ground, space and
surface wave propagation,
tilt and surface waves, impact of imperfect
earth and earths behavior at
Space wave propagation: Effect of
imperfection of earth, curvature of earth,
effect of interference zone, shadowing effect
of hills and building,
atmospheric absorption, Super-refraction,

2
10
4

10

Dec 2013 Q-1(iii)

Unit TST II

YES

Dec 2013 Q-4(b)

Unit TEST II

YES

Dec 2013 Q-1(Vi)

Unit TEST II

YES

Dec 2013 Q-2(b)

Unit TEST II

YES

Dec 2013 Q-3(b)

To get Knowledge
about diiferent
methods used in
computational
maths

Dec 2013 Q-5(a)

Dec 2013 Q-1(V),Q3(a)

2
8

Learnt surface and

goround wave
propagation

Reflection and Refraction of waves:

Ionosphere and Earth magnetic field
effect
Measures of Ionosphere Propagation: Critical
frequency, Angle of
incidence, Maximum unstable frequency, Skip

To get Knowledge
about polarization
and types and wave
propagation

Learnt Concept of
sky wave
propagation