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Course Description

ECE 303 is a comprehensive undergraduate course on electromagnetic fields and waves. Topics covered include Maxwell’s equations, electrostatics and magnetostatics, fields of charge distributions, fields near conductors, method of images, material polarization and dielectrics, fields of current distributions, electric and magnetic dipoles, power and energy in electromagnetism, electromagnetic work, electrodynamics, electromagnetic waves, wave polarization, wave propagation in isotropic and anisotropic media, wave propagation in plasmas, reflection, transmission, and refraction of waves at media interfaces, wave propagation in periodic structures and photonic bandgaps, guided waves in transmission lines, microwave circuits and smith charts, transients in transmission lines, metallic waveguides, dielectric waveguides, radiation and antennas, wire antennas, antenna arrays, diffraction, aperture antennas.

Lecturer

Professor Farhan Rana
323 Phillips Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
Tel: 607-255-6317       Fax: 607-245-3508
Email: farhan.rana at cornell.edu