ECG 732 Advanced Electromagnetics II
CATALOG DATA
Scattering; particle and beam radiation; selected topics in advanced antenna and microwave
engineering
PREREQUISITE
Prerequisites: EE 330 or consent of instructor.
TEXTBOOK(s)
Akira Ishimaru, Electromagnetic Wave Propagation, Radiation, and Scattering, Prentice Hall,
1991.
Reference:
1.
F. Harrington, Time-Harmonic Electromagnetic Fields, McGraw Hill, 1961.
2.
Jackson, Classical Electrodynamics, 2 ed., Wiley, 1975.
3.
William R. Smythe, Static and Dynamic Electricity, 3rd ed., Hemisphere Publ. 1989.
4.
J.A. Kong, Electromagnetic Wave Theory, John Wiley and Sons, 1986.
5.
Constantine A. Balanis, Advanced Engineering Electromagnetics, Wiley, 1989
6.
Wallace H. Tucker, Radiation Processes in Astrophysics, MIT Press , 1975.
7.
Craig F. Bohren and Donald R Hufman, Absorption and Scattering of Light by Small
Particles, John Wiley, 1998.
8.
L. Felsen and N Marcuvitz, Radiation and Scattering of Waves, Prentice Hall, 1973.
9.
G. Bekefi, Radiation Processes in Plasmas, John Wiley, New York, 1966.
10. Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky and Melba Phillips, Classical Electricity and Magnetism: Second
Edition, Dover Publications, January 2005 ISBN-10: 0486439240 ISBN-13: 9780486439242.
11. L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz, The Classical Theory of Fields, Addison-Wesley, Reading
Massachusetts, 1971.
12. A. Sommerfeld, Electrodynamics, Academic Press, NY, 1964.
COORDINATOR (pls. list all faculty who have/would instruct this course)
Professor Robert A. Schill, Jr.
PREREQUISITE BY TOPIC
1. Engineering Electromagnetics I
TOPICS*
This course is designed to address scattering in depth or relativistic/nonrelativistic particle and
beam radiation process. Only one of the two topics are covered in substantial depth depending on
the nature of the students taking the course.
 Particle and Beam Radiation
 Special relativity
 In-depth theory based on a Maxwell-Minkowski theory
 Lorentz transformation tensor
 Electromagnetic field transformation
 Moving media
 Aberration and Doppler effects
 Lienard-Wiechert Potentials
 Cerenkov radiation
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 Cyclotron and Synchrotron Radiation
 Bremsstrahlung Radiation
 Radiation from a Plasma
Scattering
 Integral equations
 Theorems and models
 Dyadic Green's Functions and scalar Green's Functions
 Huygen's Principle and Kirchoff's Approximation
 Floquet' s Theorem and waves along periodic structure
 Scattering from periodic perturbations in waveguide wall radius
 Scattering cross section representations
 Scattering of waves from conducting and dielectric objects
 Scattering from spheres
 Scattering from cylinders
 Scattering from planes
 Scattering from edges
 Scattering from complex objects
COURSE OUTCOMES
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
Particle and Beam Radiation
 Perform calculations regarding radiation losses due to moving charge in a circular orbit
 Estimate radiation losses in a plasma
 Estimate radiation generation due to charged particle impinging on a target
 Transform to the center of mass coordinate system to evaluate the kinetics of the charge
particle undergoing collision with a second charged particle
 Perform covariant transformations to other frames of reference within the validity of
special relativity in vacuum and in a medium
Scattering
 Understand the theoretical proofs leading to various scattering theories
 Employ theorems and transformations to recast a difficult wave scattering problem into a
simpler problem
 Calculate wave scattering from a number of conventional geometries including
geometries with a periodic structure
 Grasp the concept of the dyadic Green’s function and its relation to scalar Green’s
function in the realm of scattering theory
 Understand the limits of geometrical ray theory in the limits of diffraction theory
resulting from creep waves along the boundary of an object.
 Use Mei scattering, Rayleigh scattering and other scattering formulas.
COMPUTER USAGE
MATLAB minimal.
GRADING
Homework assignments; One midterm; One final exam.
COURSE PREPARER AND DATE OF PREPARATION
Robert A. Schill, Jr., Last update date November 14, 2012