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IIT Madras EM Fields Lectures: Electromagnetic Fields and Transmission Lines

EE310476 lectures12 weeks

Weeks

  1. Week 15 lecturesIntroduction to the course · Basics of charges, fields & forces · Basic circuit elements - resistor · Basic circuit elements - capacitor and inductor · Maxwell's equations in integral form - statics vs. dynamics
  2. Week 26 lecturesTransmission lines - modeling · Telegraph equations - lossless transmission line · Wave equation and its general solution · What is a wave? · Reflection from a load · Transmission from a source
  3. Week 37 lecturesMechanical analogue for open and short circuit · Lattice/echo diagrams - problem solving (voltage) · Lattice/echo diagrams - problem solving (current) · Intuition to transient behavior · Introduction to frequency domain analysis · Phasors · Telegraph equations - frequency domain
  4. Week 48 lecturesSteady state observations in the shive wave generator · Voltage and current solutions - phasor domain · Wave impedance and reflection coefficient for the generalized distributed model · Loss-less transmission lines and voltage standing wave ratio (vswr) · Impedance transformation on loss-less transmission lines · Animations for different loads on a loss-less transmission line · Problem solving - part 1 · Problem solving - part 2
  5. Week 54 lecturesPower transfer on transmission line · Finding v(+) · Basics of smith charts · Applications of transmission line theory
  6. Week 66 lecturesCo-ordinate systems · Vector basics · Gradiants · Differential form of maxwell's equations - part 1 · Differential form of maxwell's equations - part 2 · What is so special about divergence and curl?
  7. Week 76 lecturesFamiliarizing maxwell's equations · Basic objects of electromagnetics · Deriving uniform plane wave solution to maxwell's equations - part 1 · Deriving uniform plane wave solution to maxwell's equations - part 2 · Deriving uniform plane wave solution to maxwell's equations - part 3 · Introduction to polarization
  8. Week 88 lecturesRepresentation of wave polarization · Energy density and energy flow in the electromagnetic field · Poynting theorem · Condition for orthogonality · Wave propagation in conducting medium - part 1 · Wave propagation in conducting medium - part 2 · Boundary conditions - part 1 · Boundary conditions - part 2
  9. Week 96 lecturesAn aside on polarizers · Puzzling polarization · Plane wave in arbitrary direction · Plane wave reflection: parallel polarization - part 1 · Plane wave reflection: parallel polarization - part 2 · Plane wave reflection: perpendicular polarization
  10. Week 106 lecturesReflected and transmitted power at a dielectric interface · Normal incidence - layered media · Brewsters angle · Total internal reflection - part 1 · Total internal reflection - part 2 · Reflection from a conducting boundary
  11. Week 118 lecturesGrazing incidence on a conducting boundary (recap) · Intuition to the standing wave pattern · Parallel plate waveguide · What are modes and why are they important? · Mode cut-off frequency · Phase and group velocity · Rectangular waveguide - part 1 · Rectangular waveguide - part 2
  12. Week 126 lecturesWave impedance of modes in a rectangular waveguide · Wave networks - examples · Scattering theory · Revisiting layered media with scattering theory · Python simulation for ar coating · Network analyzer demonstration