6.632 | Spring 2003 | Graduate

Electromagnetic Wave Theory

Calendar

WEEK # TOPICS
1

  • Constitutive Relation
  • Time-average Poynting Power Vector
2

  • Plane Wave Solutions
  • Phase Velocity and Group Velocity
  • kDB System
3

  • Plane Waves in Uniaxial Media
4

  • Plane Waves in Gyrotropic Media
  • Plane Waves in Bianisotropic Media
5

  • Phase Matching
  • Reflection and Transmission at a Plane Boundary
  • Reflection and Transmission by a Layered Medium (I)
6

  • Reflection and Transmission by a Layered Medium (II)
  • Guidance by Conducting Parallel Plates
7

  • Cylindrical Rectangular Waveguide
  • Cylindrical Circular Waveguide
  • Resonance
8

  • No class
9

  • Review Lecture
  • Quiz 1
10

  • Cerenkov Radiation
  • Dyadic Green’s Functions
  • Radiation Field Approximation
11

  • Hertzian Electric Dipole
  • Hertzian Magnetic Dipole
  • Antenna Array
12

  • Equivalence Principle
  • Extinction Theory
13

  • Duality and Complementarity
  • Huygens’ Principle
  • Fresnel and Fraunhofer Diffraction
14

  • Reaction and Reciprocity
  • Quantization of Electromagnetic Waves
15

  • Review Lecture
  • Quiz 2

Course Info

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Spring 2003
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