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Electromagnetic Waves

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    Provide the fundamental concepts of electromagnetic theory. Explain the behavior of electromagnetic waves propagation in the presence of material media and their interfaces. Define the high frequency characteristics of transmission line systems. Improve the students’ skills with respect to practical considerations.
  • Course Goals
  • Quality Education
  • Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Requirements

PHM214 AND ECE241

Description

  • English Description

    Maxwell’s equations of time varying fields, Boundary conditions, Wave propagation equation, Electromagnetic waves in dielectric and conducting media, Skin depth, Surface impedance, Polarization, Phasor notation, Reflection and refraction of plane waves at dielectric-conductor and dielectric-dielectric interface. Normal and oblique incidence, Total internal reflection, Critical angle, Brewster angle, Multiple reflections from a dielectric slab, Energy and momentum in electromagnetic fields, Poynting theorem, Power loss in conductors and dielectrics, Material dispersion, Phase and group velocities, Transmission line theory, Impedance matching, Parallel and series stub matching, Smith chart.
  • Arabic Description

    Maxwell’s equations of time varying fields, Boundary conditions, Wave propagation equation, Electromagnetic waves in dielectric and conducting media, Skin depth, Surface impedance, Polarization, Phasor notation, Reflection and refraction of plane waves at dielectric-conductor and dielectric-dielectric interface. Normal and oblique incidence, Total internal reflection, Critical angle, Brewster angle, Multiple reflections from a dielectric slab, Energy and momentum in electromagnetic fields, Poynting theorem, Power loss in conductors and dielectrics, Material dispersion, Phase and group velocities, Transmission line theory, Impedance matching, Parallel and series stub matching, Smith chart.
  • Department
    Electronics and Communications Engineering
  • Credit Hours
    3
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (20) + tr.Major Assessment (25 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 10% , tr.Self_learning 0% , tr.Seminar 20% ) + tr.Minor Assessment (5) + tr.Oral/Practical (10) + Exam Grade (40)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 2, Tutorial Hours: 2, Lab Hours: 1
  • Required SWL
    125
  • Equivalent ECTS
    5
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  • Fawwaz T. Ulaby, and Umberto Ravaioli, “Fundamentals of Applied Electromagnetics”, 7th Edition, Pearson, ISBN-13: 978-0-13-335681-6, ISBN-10: 0-13-335681-7, 2014.
  • William H. Hayt, Jr., and John A. buck, “Engineering Electromagnetics”, 8th Edition, McGraw Hill, ISBN 978-0-07-338066-7, 2011. - David M. Pozar, Microwave engineering, 4th Edition, John Wiley and sons, Inc., ISBN 978-0-470-63155-3, 2011.