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II Year B.Tech. ECE II - Semester L T P To C

3 1 - 4 4

EC232 ELECTRO MAGNETIC FIELD THEORY

Course description & objectives:

To lay the foundations of electromagnetism and its practice in modern
communications such as wireless, guided wave principles. To provide the
basic skills required to understand, develop, and design various engineering
applications involving electromagnetic fields.

Course outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
a) Knowledge of, physical interpretation, and ability to apply Maxwells
equations to determine field waves, potential waves, energy and
charge conservation conditions.
b ) Experimental measurement of voltages induced by time varying
magnetic flux. Flux determination.
c) A knowledge of and experimental measurement of the influence of
boundaries on waves.
d) The applications of boundary conditions for fields, Brewsters angle
to eliminate reflections and polarize radiation, total reflection from a
boundary, evanescent fields, and some knowledge of their
application to modern optics.
e) Basic concept of the guiding of electromagnetic waves by
constructive multiple reflections from conductors and dielectrics.

UNIT I - ELECTROSTATIC FIELDS-I :

Review of Coordinate Systems and Vector analysis, Coulombs Law, Electric
Field Intensity, Field due to a continuous volume charge distribution, Field of
a line charge, Field of a sheet charge, Electric Flux Density, Gausss Law,
Applications of Gausss Law, Divergence, Maxwells First Equation
(Electrostatics), Energy and potential in a moving charge in an Electric Field,
The Line Integral, Potential Difference and Potential, Potential Field of a point
Charge, Potential Field of a System of Charges, Potential Gradient, The Dipole,
Energy Density in the Electric Field.

UNIT II - ELECTROSTATIC FIELDS-II :

Current and Current Density, Continuity of Current, Metallic Conductors,
Conductor Properties and Boundary Conditions, Method of Images, Nature

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of Dielectric Materials, Boundary Conditions for Perfect Dielectric Materials,

Capacitance, Parallel Plate Capacitor, Capacitance of a Two-Wire Line,
Poissons and Laplaces Equations, Uniqueness Theorem.

UNIT III - MAGNETOSTATIC FIELDS :

Biot-Savart Law, Amperes Circuital Law, Magnetic Flux and Magnetic Flux
Density, Scalar and Vector Magnetic Potentials, Force on a Moving Charge,
Force on a Differential Current element, Force between Differential Current
elements, Force and Torque on a Closed Circuit, Nature of Magnetic Materials,
Magnetization and Permeability, Magnetic Boundary Conditions, Potential
Energy and Forces on Magnetic Materials, Self Inductance and Mutual
Inductance.

UNIT IV - MAXWELLS EQUATIONS AND WAVE PROPAGATION :

Faradays Law, Displacement Current, Maxwells Equations in Point Form,
Maxwells Equations in Integral Form, Retarded Potentials, Wave Propagation
in Free Space, Wave Propagation in Dielectrics, Poynting Vector and Power
Considerations, Propagation in Good Conductors, Skin Depth, Phase Velocity,
Wave Polarization.

UNIT V - WAVE CHARACTERISTICS :

Reflection of Uniform Plane Waves at Normal Incidence, Standing Wave Ratio,
Wave Reflection from Multiple Interfaces, Plane Wave Propagation in General
Directions, Plane Wave Reflection at Oblique Incidence Angles, Wave
Propagation in Dispersive Media.

TEXT BOOKS:
1. William H. Hayt and John A. Buck, Engineering Electromagnetics 6th ed.,
Tata Mcgraw-Hill, 2001.

REFERENCEBOOKS:
1. Matthew N.O. Sadiku, Elements of Electromagnetics 3rd ed., Oxford
Univ. Press, 2001.
2. E.C.Jordan and K.G. Balmain, Electromagnetic Waves and Radiating
System2nd ed, PHI, 2000.
3. John D Kraus, Electromagnetics 4th ed., Mcgraw-Hill.
4. Gottapu sasibhushanarao. Electromagnetic Field Theory and
Transmission Lines Wiley.

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