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Some of the lecture notes were prepared in LaTeX by Alan Dunn, a former MIT student. He used Prof. Zahn's handwritten notes to produce them.
Lecture notes files.
| SES # |
TOPICS |
LECTURE NOTES |
| I. Maxwell's Equations |
| L1 |
Coulomb-Lorentz Force Law; Maxwell's Equations in Integral Form; Simple Electric and Magnetic Field Solutions using Gauss' and Ampere's Laws for Point, Line, and Surface Charges and Currents; Superposition; Simple Cylindrical and Spherical Source Problems
Demos: H/M 10.2.1 - Edgerton's Boomer |
(PDF)# |
| L2 |
Derive Boundary Conditions; Apply Boundary Conditions to Surface Charge and Surface Current Problems |
(PDF)# |
| L3 |
Divergence and Stokes' Theorems; Maxwell's Equations in Differential Form; Electroquasistatics and Magnetoquasistatics; Potential and the Gradient Operator
Demo: H/M 10.0.1 Nonuniqueness of Voltage in an MQS System |
(PDF)# |
| L4 |
The Electric Field, Electric Scalar Potential, and the Gradient; Poisson's and Laplace's Equations; Potential of Point Charge; Coulomb Superposition Integral |
(PDF)# |
| L5 |
Method of Images |
(PDF)# |
| L6 |
Media: Dielectric, Conducting, and Magnetic Constitutive Laws; Charge Relaxation
Demos: H/M 6.6.1 Artificial Dielectric; 9.4.1 Measurement of B-H Characteristic |
(PDF - 1.1 MB)# |
| L7 |
Conservation of Charge Boundary Condition; Maxwell Capacitor; Magnetic Dipoles and Circuits; Reluctance |
(PDF - 1.1 MB)# |
| II. Plane Waves |
| L8 |
Wave Equation; Poynting's Theorem |
(PDF) |
| L9 |
Oblique Incidence on a Perfect Conductor; TM Waves with Oblique Incidence on Lossless Media Described by ε and µ; Reflection and Transmission; TE Waves with Oblique Incidence on Lossless Media |
(PDF) |
| III. Transmission Lines and Waveguides |
| L10 |
Parallel Plate Transmission Lines; Wave Equation; Sinusoidal Steady State
Demo: H/M 13.1.1 Visualization of Standing Waves |
(PDF) |
| L11 |
Gamma Plane; Smith Chart; VSWR; λ/4 Transformer
Demo: V(z,t), I(z,t) Movies |
(PDF - 2.6 MB) |
| L12 |
Wave Equations (Lossless); Transient Waves on Transmission Lines
Demo: H/M 14.4.1 Transmission Line Matching, Reflection, and Quasistatic Charging |
(PDF - 2.5 MB) |
| L13 |
Reflections from Ends; Driven and Initial Value Problems |
(PDF - 2.5 MB) |
| L14 |
Rectangular Waveguides; Transverse Magnetic (TM) and Transverse Electric (TE) Modes; Cut-off |
(PDF) |
| IV. Fields and Forces |
| L15 |
Dielectric Waveguides
Demo: Evanescent Waves |
(PDF) |
| L16 |
Energy in Electric and Magnetic Fields; Principle of Virtual Work to Find Electric and Magnetic Forces; Magnetic Circuit Problems
Demo: H/M 11.6.2 Force on a Dielectric Material (Video) |
(PDF)# |
| L17 |
Synchronous Rotating Machines
Film: Synchronous Machines |
(PDF)# |
| L18 |
Self-Excited Electric and Magnetic Machines
Demo: H/M 7.7.1 Van de Graaff and Kelvin Generators (Video); Self-excited Commutator Machines |
(PDF)# |
| V. Antennas and Radiation |
| L19 |
Radiation by Charges and Currents; Setting the Gauge; Lorentz Gauge; Superposition Integral Solutions for Scalar and Vector Potentials; Radiation from a Point Electric Dipole; Receiving Antenna Properties |
(PDF) |
| L20 |
2 Element Array; Broad Side and End-fire Arrays
Demo: Radiation Patterns |
(PDF - 1.1 MB) |
| L21 |
Transmitting and Receiving Antennas; Wireless and Optical Communications |
(PDF - 1.5 MB) |
| VI. Acoustics |
| L22 |
Acoustic Waves |
(PDF - 2.5 MB) |
| L23 |
Course Review |
(PDF - 1.2 MB) |