ELEC 280 - Fundamentals of Electromagnetics
Course Outline - Winter 2016
TEXT: F.T. Ulaby, Fundamentals of Applied Electromagnetics, Prentice-Hall, 7th edition
WEBSITE ADDRESS: http://post.queensu.ca/~ilmin/ELEC280/
Lecture Times & Locations:
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Monday 10:30 AM, Wednesday 10:30 AM, WLH RM 205 (AUD)
Thursday 8:30 AM; DUNNIG RM14
Tutorial Times & Locations
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Wednesday 9:30 PM; STIRLING RM C
Labs
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For day information (among Mon, Tue, Wed) of your labs, check SOLUS; you should attend
your own lab section as posted in SOLUS.
For week information of your labs, disregard SOLUS; we have labs only in Week 6 (week of
Feb 8) and Week 11 (week of March 21).
In each of the above two weeks, there are three sections all in Beamish-Munro RM 314:
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Monday, 2:30-5:30 PM
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Tuesday, 8:30-11:30 AM
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Wednesday, 11:30-2:30 AM
Overall, the lab schedule is as follows:
o 1st lab:
 Feb 8, Monday, 2:30-5:30 PM
 Feb 9, Tuesday, 8:30-11:30 AM
 Feb 10, Wednesday, 11:30-2:30 AM
o 2nd lab:
 Mar 21, Monday, 2:30-5:30 PM
 Mar 22, Tuesday, 8:30-11:30 AM
 Mar 23, Wednesday, 11:30-2:30 AM
GENERAL LECTURE SCHEDULE
Week
General Topic
Textbook sections
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Sec. 1: Introduction
Chapter 1: 1-1, 1-3, 1-4,1-5, 1-6
2–5
Sec. 2: Transmission lines
Chapter 2: all sections
6
Sec. 3: Vector analysis
Chapter 3: all sections
7–9
Sec. 4: Electrostatics
Chapter 4: omit 4-6, 4-12
10 – 11
Sec. 5: Magnetostatics
Chapter 5: omit 5-5, 5-6
12
Sec. 6: Time-varying fields
Chapter 6: 6-1, 6-2, 6-4
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TOPICS COVERED
Sec. 1 - Introduction:
 units and notation; discrete and field quantities
 travelling waves
 electromagnetic spectra
 review of complex numbers and the phasor transform (in tutorial)
Sec. 2 - Transmission Lines:
 introduction to transmission lines and wave propagation
 the lumped element model of transmission lines and transmission line parameters
 transmission line equations
 wave propagation on a transmission line
 lossless transmission lines
 input impedance
 power flow
 the Smith chart
 impedance matching and transients
Sec. 3 - Vector calculus:
 basic laws; coordinate systems
 gradient of a scalar field
 divergence of a vector field and the divergence theorem
 curl of a vector field and Stokes’s theorem
 the Laplacian operator
Sec. 4 - Electrostatics:
 Maxwell’s equations for static electric fields
 charge and current density; equation of continuity (in tutorial)
 Coulomb’s law; the electric field; electric flux and electric flux density
 Gauss’s law
 electric potential
 conductors and resistance
 properties of dielectrics
 capacitors and capacitance
 electrostatic potential energy
Sec. 5 - Magnetostatics:
 introduction: magnetic flux density and magnetic field intensity
 magnetic forces and the Biot-Savart law
 Ampère’s force law
 Maxwell’s equations for magnetostatic fields
 Gauss’s law and Ampère’s law
 magnetic boundary conditions
 inductance
 magnetic energy
Sec. 6 - Maxwell’s equations for time-varying fields:
 dynamic fields
 Faraday’s law and the electromotive force
 Lenz’s law
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COURSE EVALUATION AND MARKING SCHEME
 Labs (2) – 16% (8% for each)
 Quizzes (2) – 32% (16% for each)
 Pop quizzes (2) – 2% (1% for each)
 Final Examination – 50%
The two quizzes will be written in Wednsday’s classes (at 10:30 AM) in Weeks 5 and 10. (The reading
week is not counted. For example, Week 7 means the week right after the reading week.)
All exams and final examination are closed book; formula sheets will be provided if needed.
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