EEE201

ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY

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Course Outcomes:
After Successful completion of course, the students will be able to,
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Description

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To Understand the basic concepts of electric and magnetic fields.

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To Understand the concept of conductors, dielectrics, inductance and capacitance

CO3

To Gain knowledge on the nature of magnetic materials.

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Have an understanding of Maxwells equations and be able to manipulate and apply them
to EM problems.

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To Understand the concept of field modeling and computation.

Unit 1:
GENERAL PRINCIPLES AND ELECTROSTATICS
Review of vector algebra - co-ordinate system - rectangular, cylindrical and spherical - curl,
divergence and gradient - divergence theorem - Coulombs law - electric field intensity - field
due to different types of charges - electric flux density - Gausss law and application - electric
potential - potential field due to different types of charges - potential gradient.
Unit 2:
CONDUCTORS, DIELECTRICS AND CAPACITANCE
Current and current density - continuity of current - conductor properties and boundary
conditions - the nature of dielectric materials - boundary conditions for perfect dielectric
materials -capacitance - different types of capacitances - energy density in electric field Poissons and Laplaces equations.
Unit 3:
MAGNETOSTATICS
Magnetic field - magnetic flux - magnetic flux density - Stokes theorem - Biot-savart law and
application - Amperes circuital law and application - scalar and vector magnetic potentials force on a moving charge, differential current element, torque on a closed circuit - inductance nature of magnetic materials - magnetization and permeability - magnetic boundary conditions.
Unit 4:
MAXWELLS EQUATIONS AND ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
Faradays laws- Faradays law - Lenzs law - Maxwells equations in differential and integral
forms - displacement current - Electromagnetic wave equations - wave parameters - velocity,
intrinsic impedance, propagation constant - waves in free space, lossy and lossless dielectric,
conductors - skin depth - Poynting theorem.
Unit 5:
FIELD MODELLING AND COMPUTATION
Problem formulation - boundary condition - solutions Analytical methods - variables separable
methods - conformal transformation - method of images - numerical methods - finite difference
method - finite element method - charge simulation method.

Text Books
1. William, H.Hayt., Engineering Electromagnetics, Tata McGraw Hill,2001.
Reference Books
1. John.D.Kraus., Electromagnetics, TataMcGraw Hill Book Co., New York, 4 th
Edition, 1991.
2. Joseph. A.Edminister., Theory and Problems of Electromagnetics, 2 nd edition,
Schaum Series, Tata McGraw Hill, 1993.
3. Sadiku., Elements of Electromagnetics, 2nd edition, Oxford University
Press,1995.