6.013 - Electromagnetics and Applications - MIT Lecture Notes

Instructor(s) : Prof. David Staelin

MIT Course Number : 6.013

Level: Undergraduate

Lecture notes files.

SES #	TOPICS	NOTES
Foundations
L1	Foundations, forces and fields, Gauss's and Ampere's laws (∫) for static fields	(PDF)
L2	Media, boundary conditions	(PDF)
L3	Review vector operators; Maxwell's differential equations (t), E, H, uniform plane wave; sin (ωt)	(PDF)
L4	Poynting theorem derivation (time), UPW example (we, wm, S(t))	(PDF)
Forces, motors, generators, and MEMS
L5	Electric forces on e-beams, C plates, force from ∂w/∂z; generators and sensors	(PDF)
L6	Magnetic pressure, rotary wire and reluctance motors, forces on materials	(PDF)
L7	Static Φ and fields, Laplace's equation, separation of variables (x,y,z); inhomogeneous materials	(PDF)
Waves in media and at boundaries
L8	Electromagnetic fields in media, uniaxial media, quarter-wave plate	(PDF)
L9	Boundary conditions, k•r, phase matching, non-uniform plane wave, Snell's law	(PDF)
L10	TE at planar boundary, TM by duality, Brewster's angle	(PDF)
Limits to computation speed
L11	Device and line delays; TEM parallel-plate line, telegraphers' equation, Zo	(PDF)
L12	Transients: Thevenin equivalents; L, C, diode loads; initial conditions; lossy TEM	(PDF)
RF/microwave guidance and filtering
L13	Architecture, generalized TEM line, Ζ(z), Γ(z), Ζ transformations	(PDF)
L14	RLC resonators, series, parallel, ωo, ∆ω, α, QL, QI, QE, coupling	(PDF)
L15	TEM resonators, we(t), wm(t), Q, ∆ω, examples; |V(z,f)|	(PDF)
L16	TEmn rectangular waveguide, cavity resonators, perturbations	(PDF)
Wireless communications
L17	Conservation of energy, power, G(θ,φ), Ae= Gλ2 /4π, Rr, VTh, RF links	(PDF)
L18	Radiation by current elements, Hertzian dipole, near and far fields; Biot-Savart	(PDF - 1.6MB)
L19	Receiving antennas: VTh in dipoles and loops; d<<λ/2π, G = 4πA/λ2	(PDF)
L20	Aperture antennas, diffraction	(PDF)
Optical communications
L21	Optical fibers, applications, dielectric slab waveguide, fiber design	(PDF)
L22	Lasers	(PDF)
Acoustics
L23	Acoustic waves, boundary conditions, reflections, antennas	(PDF)
L24	Course philosophy, resonator perturbations and speech generation	(PDF)

 

Additional Material :

Brief history of Maxwell's equations (PDF)

Prof. David Staelin, 6.013, Electromagnetics and Applications. 

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCouseWare), http://ocw.mit.edu (Accessed August 22, 2013). 

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