Personnel:
| Lecture # | Title |
| 0 | Cover page. Table of contents. |
| 1 | Magnetic circuits. |
| 2 | Faraday's law of induction. Lenz's law. |
| 3 | Faraday's law examples. |
| 4 | Faraday's law and moving circuits. |
| 5 | Displacement current and Ampère's law. |
| 6 | Maxwell's equations, boundary conditions. |
| 7 | Sinusoidal steady state, phasors. |
| 8 | Maxwell's equations and electrical circuits. |
| 9 | Non-ideal behavior of physical circuit elements. Skin effect. |
| 10 | Ideal transformer. |
| 11 | Transmission lines and distributed l and c. |
| 12 | Time domain solutions to TL wave equations. |
| 13 | Transmission line termination, reflections. Current waves. |
| 14 | Bounce diagrams. |
| 15 | Pulse propagation on transmission lines. Time domain reflectometry. |
| 16 | Sinusoidal steady state excitation of lossless transmission lines. |
| 17 | Termination of transmission lines. Load reflection coefficient. |
| 18 | Input impedance of TLs. Excitation and source conditions. |
| 19 | Generalized reflection coefficient. Crank diagram. VSWR. |
| 20 | Lossy transmission lines. Dispersionless TLs. Special cases of
general TLs. (Slightly revised, 3/17/10 ) |
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21 |
Smith chart. |
| 22 | TL matching. Quarter-wave transformers. Resistive pads. |
| 23 | Single-stub tuner I – Analytical solution. |
| 24 | Single-stub tuner II – Smith chart solution. |
| 25 | Uniform plane waves. Infinite current sheets. |
| 26 | Plane waves in lossy materials. Skin depth. |
| 27 | Poynting's theorem. Power flow and plane waves. |
| 28 | Uniform plane waves normally incident on a lossless half space. |
| 29 | Example of a normally incident UPW on a lossless half space. |
| 30 | Electromagnetic radiation and antennas. |
| 31 | Hertzian dipole antenna. |
| 32 | Near and far fields of the Hertzian dipole antenna. Radiation resistance. |
| 33 | Antenna radiation patterns. Directivity and gain. |
| 34 | Antenna effective aperture. The Friis equation. |
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Assigned Mar. 14. Due Mar. 19. (Solutions)| Lab # | Title | Assigned | Due |
| 1 |
Unit-step and pulse propagation on coaxial cable. Time domain reflectometry. |
Mar. 15 |
Mar. 26 |
| 2 | Introduction to vector network analyzers. | Apr. 1 | Apr. 1 |
| 3 | Lossy coaxial cable measurements using a vector network analyzer. | Apr. 7 | Apr. 21 |
Tektronix 2012 user manual and supplement (digital storage oscilloscope).
Agilent 33120A user manual (15 MHz function/arbitrary waveform generator ).
Microwave Connections:
"Quick Start Guide for Precision Microwave Coaxial Connections."
Vector network analyzers:
"Network Analyzer Basics," Agilent Product Note E206.
Agilent 4396B user's manual (1.8 GHz RF/Network/Spectrum analyzer).