Course focuses on foundational electromagnetism, specifically electrostatics, magnetostatics, and classical electrodynamics. Follows ECE110 — Electrical Fundamentals and MAT291 — Calculus III. Followed in spirit by ECE318 — Fundamentals of Optics.
We used the Fundamentals of Applied Electromagnetics book by Umberto Ravaioli and Fawwaz Ulaby.
Concepts covered
Electrostatics
- Electric charge
- Coulomb’s law (electrostatic force)
- Electric field
- Boundary conditions
- Electric dipole (dipole moment)
- Gauss’ law
- Electric potential
- Poisson’s equation
- Laplace’s equation
- Far-field approximation (electric dipole)
- Current
- Materials
- Ohm’s law
- Power and Joule’s law
- Capacitance
- Method of images
- Electric energy
Magnetostatics
- Magnetic force
- Ampère’s force law
- Lorentz force law
- DC motor
- Magnetic field
- Biot-Savart law
- Boundary conditions
- Permeability
- Hall effect and Hall sensor
- Ampère’s law
- Magnetic materials
- Magnetic dipole (dipole moment)
- Magnetisation (magnetic susceptibility)
- Ferromagnetism
- Magnetised domains
- Hysteresis curve
- Soft, hard ferromagnets
- Inductance
- Self-inductance
- Mutual inductance
- Magnetic energy
Electrodynamics
- Faraday’s law of induction
- Maxwell-Ampere law
- Displacement current
- Transformer (device)
- Motional electrodynamics
- Current-continuity equation