UNIT 1:

Steady Electric Field: Coulomb’s Law, units, Electric field intensity, Electric flux and flux density, Gauss law, Boundary relations, concept of divergence, Curl, scalar and vector potential. electric field in dielectric and conductor, continuity equation, methods of images.

UNIT 2:

Magnetic field due to steady currents, force between current carrying wires, Stokes theorem, vector magnetic potential, magnetization vector and its relation to magnetic field.

UNIT 3:

Maxwell’s Equation: Time varying field and displacement current, faraday’s law.

UNIT 4:

Wave Equation: Pointing vector, Plane electromagnetic waves in free space, dielectric medium and conducting medium, Skin depth, slepian vector.

UNIT 5:

Waves propagation in lossy dielectrics, plane waves in lossless dielectrics, reflection of a plane wave at normal incidence , reflection of a plane wave at oblique incidence .

Reference Books:

  1. Elements of Engineering Electromagnetic Third Edition- N.N. Rao- Prentice Hall, India.
  2. Elements opf Electromagnetic, Second Edition- Matthew N.O. Sadiku- Saunders coll Publishing.
  3. Fields & Waves in Communication Electronics- S.Ramo, J.R. Whinnery& T. Van Duzer- John Wiley & Sons.
  4. Electromagnetic- J.D. Kraus-McGraw Hill
  5. Electromagnetic Waves & Radiating Systems- E.C. Jordan & K.G. Balmain- Prentice Hall.