Electromagnetic Theory (PCEET502) Syllabus

Mathematical preliminaries — rectangular, cylindrical and spherical coordinate systems, representation of point, unit vector, vector, constant surfaces, transformation of points, unit vectors and vectors among the three coordinate systems, transformation matrices, del operator, gradient of a scalar field, divergence of a vector field, divergence theorem, curl of a vector field, Stoke's theorem. Electrostatic fields — Coulomb's law, electric field intensity, force and field due to system of charges, Gauss's law (integral form), electric flux density, field due to line of charge, surface and volume charge distributions.

Electrostatic fields in material media — Gauss's law (point form), electric potential, relation between E and V, field due to electric dipole, energy density in static electric fields, conduction and convection current, Ohm's law in point form, resistance, capacitance of parallel plate/coaxial/spherical capacitors, continuity equation, boundary conditions, Poisson's and Laplace's equations (solution not required).

Magnetostatics — Biot Savart's law, Ampere's circuital law in integral and point form, magnetic field due to infinite line current, infinite sheet of current, coaxial cable, non-conservativeness of magnetic field, magnetic scalar and vector potential. Magnetostatics in material media — force on a charged particle due to a magnetic field, force between two current carrying conductors, magnetic torque and moment, magnetization in materials, magnetic boundary conditions, inductance, energy stored in magnetostatic fields.

Electromagnetic induction and Maxwell-Heaviside equations — Faraday's law, transformer EMF and motional EMF, displacement current. Electromagnetic waves — time varying potentials, waves in general, wave propagation in lossy dielectrics, plane waves in free space and conductors, skin effect, power, Poynting theorem, reflection of plane wave at normal incidence. Transmission lines — transmission line equations, characteristic impedance, input impedance, standing wave ratio.