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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
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| L2 |
Derive boundary conditions; apply boundary conditions to surface charge and surface current problems |
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| 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
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| L4 |
The electric field, electric scalar potential, and the gradient; Poisson's and Laplace's equations; potential of point charge; Coulomb superposition integral |
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| L5 |
Method of images |
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| 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
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(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
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(PDF) |
| L11 |
Gamma plane; Smith chart; VSWR; λ/4 transformer
Demo: V(z,t), I(z,t) movies
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(PDF - 2.5 MB) |
| L12 |
Wave equations (lossless); transient waves on transmission lines
Demo: H/M 14.4.1 transmission line matching, reflection, and quasistatic charging
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(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
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(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)
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| L17 |
Synchronous rotating machines
Film: Synchronous Machines
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| L18 |
Self-excited electric and magnetic machines
Demo: H/M 7.7.1 van de Graaff and Kelvin generators (video); self-excited commutator machines
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| 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
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(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) |