302 Traveling Waves And Fields (3)
Dimensions in electromagnetic wave propagation; per unit length parameters of
common transmission line configurations; derivation of general time-domain and
time-harmonic (phasor) forms of transmission line equations; Laplace transform
solution to arbitrary time excitations-the bounce diagram; introduction to the
concept of voltage and current traveling waves; input impedance, VSWR and power
flow on a transmission line; open-and short-circuit, lambda/4 and lambda length
lines; Smith Chart & applications; lossy lines; complex vectors; review of
Gauss's, Faraday and Ampere's laws of electromagnetism and differential form of
Maxwell's equations; time-harmonic form of Maxwell's equations; Poynting
vector; boundary conditions; wave equation from Maxwell's equations; uniform
plane waves in lossy and lossless media; power flow in uniform plane waves;
skin depth; normal incidence of uniform plane waves on good conductors.
Prerequisites: MATH 250, Phys 250, Pre-/Co-requisite: ECE 341 or ECE 401H,
co-requisite ECE 303