Units: 4 (3 Lecture/1 Discussion)
Prerequisites: EEC 130A
Catalog Description: Plane wave propagation in lossy media, reflections, guided waves, simple modulated waves and dispersion, and basic antennas. GE Credit: SE
ABET Student Outcomes:
Students who have completed this course should have achieved:
a) Student Outcome 1: an ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics
Expanded Course Description:
Plane Wave Propagation in Unbounded Media
I. Maxwell’s equations
A. Wave propagation in free space
B. Wave propagation in general media
C. Energy flow and the Poynting vector
D. Polarization
II. Reflection and transmission of waves
A. Boundary conditions
B. Various media at normal incidence
C. Various media at oblique incidence
D. Power flow at an interface
E. Standing waves
F. Plane waves at multiple interfaces
III. Waveguides
A. Waveguide condition
B. Parallel plate metallic waveguide
C. Symmetric dielectric planar waveguide
D. Rectangular metallic waveguide
IV. Radiation
A. Scalar and vector potential
B. Radiation from time-varying charges
C. Radiation from Hertzian Dipole
D. Radiation gain and radiation resistance
E. Radiation from arrays of Hertzian dipoles
V. Group Velocity and Dispersion
A. Phase and group velocity
B. The origins of material and waveguide dispersion
C. Dispersion examples
