Electromagnetic Waves and Transmission Lines

Unit-wise syllabus

• Electrostatics
  Coordinate systems; Coulomb's law; electric field intensity and flux density; Gauss law and applications; electric potential; Maxwell's two electrostatic equations; energy density; Poisson's and Laplace's equations; Capacitance: parallel plate and coaxial capacitors
• Magnetostatics and Maxwell's Equations
  Biot-Savart law; Ampere's circuital law and applications; magnetic flux density; Magnetic scalar and vector potentials; forces; inductances and magnetic energy; Time-varying fields; Faraday's law; displacement current; Maxwell's equations; Boundary conditions
• EM Wave Characteristics
  Wave equations for conducting and dielectric media; uniform plane waves; Propagation in lossy/lossless dielectrics, free space and good conductors; skin depth; polarization; Reflection and refraction (normal and oblique incidence); Brewster angle, critical angle, total internal reflection; Poynting theorem
• Transmission Lines - I
  Types, parameters, T and pi equivalent circuits; transmission line equations; Primary and secondary constants; characteristic impedance; propagation constant; Phase and group velocities; infinite, lossless and distortionless lines
• Transmission Lines - II
  Input impedance, reflection coefficient, VSWR; shorted, open and matched lines; UHF lines as circuit elements; Smith chart construction and applications; quarter-wave transformer; single stub matching

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