University of Maryland

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

ENEE681 Spring 2020

Tentative Schedule

Topic	Text Chapters	Lectures^1
Dynamic and Quasistatic Fields Faraday’s Law, Magnetic Energy, Self and Mutual Inductance, Maxwell’s Displacement Current	14	3
General Electromagnetic Fields Potentials, Conservation Laws, Gauge transformations	15	2
Waves in Vaccum Plane Waves, Polarization, Wave Packets, Diffraction	16	2
Waves in Simple Matter Reflection at Discontinuities, Radiation pressure, Anisotropic matter	17	3
Waves in Dispersive Matter Group velocity dispersion, attenuation, Foster’s theorem	18	2
Guided and Confined Waves Transmission lines, conducting waveguides, optical waveguides, cavities	19	3
Retardation and Radiation, Radiation by given current distributuib, antennas, coherent/incoherent	20	3
Scattering and Diffraction Thomson and Rayleigh scattering	21	2
Special Relativity, transformations, Energy and Momentum, Charged Particle Motion in Strong Fields, Lagrangian Densitty	22	3
Radiation from moving charges Cherenkov radiation, Bremstralung and Synchrotron radiation	23	2
	Final Exam

1 Lecture is two 50 minute periods.