Fundamentals of wave propagation, transmission lines, impedance matching, electrostatics, magnetostatics, Maxwell's equations, plane waves in free space, lossy media, and reflections from planar interfaces, wireless communication systems. Applications include wireless communication systems, high speed digital circuits, electromagnetic sensors, and bioelectromagnetics.
Course includes some software assignments.
Students will need access to Matlab or Mathcad. Each day you will be asked to answer a question associated with the lecture and do 1-3 related homework problems. Exams will be open portfolio, closed book, so include everything you need to solve the problems. You may include tables and figures copied from the text, but please don't copy the text itself. Portfolios will be checked for completeness only.