Course Title Electromagnetic Fields and Waves

Course Code PC Credits 4 LTPS 3:1:0:0 Semester : 3

100 marks 100 marks
CIA ESE
(50% weightage) (50% weightage)

Prerequisites : Engineering Mathematics & Applied Mathematics

Module I Preliminaries (6 Hours)

Scalar and Vector, Cartesian coordinate system, Dot product, Cross product; Vector and scalar fields;
Cylindrical coordinate system, Dot product in Cylindrical and Cartesian coordinate systems; Spherical
coordinate system, Dot product in Spherical and Cartesian coordinate systems.

Module II Electrostatics (10 Hours)

Coulomb’s law, Electric field intensity, Field due to multiple point sources, Field due to continuous
charge, Field due to line charge, Field due to sheet of charge ,Field streamlines; Electric flux density,
Gauss’s law, Application of Gauss’s law, spherical surface, line charge and cylindrical surface;
Divergence theorem, Potential field, Potential gradient, Dipole.

Module III Static Magnetic Field (10 Hours)

Biot – Savart law, Magnetic field due to finite element, Ampere’s circuital law; Curl, Stokes theorem;
Magnetic flux density; Maxwell equations in point form, Integral form of Maxwell equations; Magnetic
potential, Scalar magnetic potential, Vector magnetic potential; Force on a moving charge (Lorentz’s force),
Force on a differential current element, Force between differential current elements; Force and Torque on a
closed circuit.

Module IV Electric and Magnetic Fields in Materials (12 Hours)

Energy density in Electric Field, Current and current density, Current and charge density; Continuity of
current; Conductor- Ohm’s law, Boundary conditions Conductor-Dielectric; Dielectric materials,
Boundary conditions between dielectric materials; Capacitance, Stored energy in capacitance; Poisson and
Laplace equations, Capacitance by Laplace equation; Nature of magnetic materials, Magnetization,
Magnetic boundary conditions, Self and mutual inductance.

Module V Time Varying Electric and Magnetic Fields (10 Hours)

Faraday’s law, Transformer and Motional emf; Displacement Current , Ampere’s Circuital law for time
varying fields; Maxwell equations in Phasor form, Differential and Integral form; Wave propagation in
Free Space, Helmholtz equation, Transverse electric and magnetic field (TEM), Uniform plane wave ;
Pointing vector and power, Average power in lossless and lossy dielectric.

Module VI Electromagnetic Waves (12 Hours)

Wave propagation in dielectric media, Electric and magnetic fields, Loss tangent; Wave propagation in
conductors, wavelength into the conductor, skin effect; Wave polarization, elliptic and circular
polarization; Reflection of uniform plane wave, relation between incident, reflected and transmitted
power; Oblique incidence, TM and TE polarizations, Snell’s law, Reflection and Transmission coefficients
for TM and TE polarizations; Total reflection and total transmission, Critical and Brewster angles.

TEXT BOOKS

1 William H. Hayt, John. A. Buck “Engineering Electromagnetics” 7th edition, Tata McGraw Hill, 2005

2 E.C. Jordan & K.G. Balmain “Electromagnetic Waves and Radiating Systems.” Prentice Hallof India
2nd edition 2003. (Unit IV, V). McGraw-Hill, 9th reprint
3 Mathew . N. O. Sadiku “ Principles of Electromagnetics”, “4th edition, Oxford university Press, 2009

REFERENCE BOOKS

1 NarayanaRao.N : “Elements of Engineering Electromagnetics” 6th edition, Prentice Hall of India,

New Delhi, 2012.
2 David. K. Cheng, “Fields and Wave electromagnetics, 2nd edition, Pearson Education, 2004

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MOOC
1 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl6m4jcR_DbOx6s2toprJQx1MORqPa9rG
2 https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-013-electromagnetics-
and-applications-spring-2009/
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CO Course Outcomes PO mappings

Level
CO 1 Able to apply basic electrostatic laws PO1, PO2, PO3

CO 2 Able to apply static magnetic field laws PO1, PO2, PO3, PO4

CO 3 Able to solve problems involving fields in materials PO1, PO2, PO3, PO4

CO 4 Able to analyze time varying fields PO1, PO2,PO3, PO5, PO6,

PO9
CO 5 Able to apply Maxwell’s equations and wave equation in PO1, PO5, PO9, PO11, PO12
various conditions
 Assessment

Assessment Pattern Continuous Internal Assessments Marks 100

(Weightage 50%)
Theory Component Three Internals (Average of Three) 40%

Quiz/ Project 20%

Problem Solving (Assignment) 30%

Seminar (Oral presentation with report) 10%

Semester End Examination Marks 100

(This is a written examination for THREE hours) (Weightage 50%)

Questions for CIE (50%) and ESE (50%) will be designed to evaluate the various educational
components (Blooms taxonomy) such as:

Remembering and understanding the course contents (Weightage: 20%)

Understanding of various system models

Applying the knowledge acquired from the course (Weightage: 45%)

Designing and analyzing various engineering problems (Weightage: 25%)

Evaluating and creating new designs for various applications (Weightage: 10%)