Principles of Electromagnetic Fields

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This course provides the grounding in fundamental laws of electromagnetics and provides practical training in solution of engineering electromagnetics problems. In particular, it investigates electric fields due to stationary charges and magnetic fields due to stationary currents in practical geometries, and solution of problems involving polarization and magnetization effects in material media. The course covers Maxwell's equations and propagation of transverse electromagnetic waves in lossy and lossless media. It explores the behavior of electromagnetic waves at the interface between different media at normal and oblique incidence, wave polarization, and applications to optics and fiber optics. The transmission line equations, transmission line transient waves and sinusoidal time variations are covered putting emphasis on solution of practical problems involving arbitrary impedance terminations. The retarded potentials, linear antennas and array antennas are also considered.