McMaster University Electrical and Computer Engineering

EE 2FH3 - Detailed Course Outline with Lecture Notes

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Date	Lecture	Description	Chapter
Jan 6th	0	Organizational Meeting
Jan 8th	1	Vector Algebra: scalars and vectors, unit vectors, subtraction and addition, position and distance vectors, vectors multiplications	Chapter 1: pages 3-15
Jan 10th	2	Vector Algebra: scalar triple product, vector triple product, Cartesian coordinates, cylindrical coordinates	Chapter 1: pages 15-25, Chapter 2: pages 29-33
Jan 13th	3	Vector Algebra: spherical coordinates, constant value surfaces	Chapter 2: pages 33-49
Jan 15th	4	Vector Calculus: differential elements, line integrals	Chapter 3: pages 57-67
Jan 17th	5	Vector Calculus: Del operators, gradient of a scalar, Divergence operator, Divergence theorem	Chapter 3: pages 67-79
Jan 20th	6	Vector Calculus: Curl operator, Stokes theorem, Laplacian of a scalar, Classification of vectors	Chapter 3: pages 80-95
Jan 24nd	7	Electrostatic Fields: Coulomb’s law, definition of electric field	Chapter 4: pages 107-115
Jan 27th	8	Electrostatic Fields: superposition: line charges, surface charges, volume charges	Chapter 4: pages 115-126
Jan 29th	9	Electrostatic Fields: Electric flux density, Gauss law, applications of Gauss law	Chapter 4: pages 126-137
Jan 31^st	10	Electrostatic Fields: Electric potential, relations between E and V	Chapter 4: pages 137-146
Feb 3^rd	11	Electrostatic Fields: Electric dipole, Energy density	Chapter 4: pages 146-160
Feb 5^th	12	Fields in Different Materials: Convection and Conduction currents, Conductors	Chapter 5: pages 173-182
Feb 7^th	13	Fields in Different Materials: Polarization in dielectrics, dielectric constant and strength, linear, isotropic, and homogenous medium	Chapter 5: pages 183-191
Feb 10^th	14	Fields in Different Materials: continuity equations, boundary conditions,	Chapter 5: pages 192-206
Feb 12^th	15	Electrostatic Boundary Value Problems: Poisson’s and Laplace’s equations, applications	Chapter 6: pages 215-239
Feb 14^th	16	Electrostatic Boundary Value Problems: Resistance and capacitance, applications	Chapter 6: pages 239-256
February 17^th-February 21^st, Reading Week
Feb 24^th	17	Electrostatic Boundary Value Problems: method of images, applications	Chapter 6: pages 256-267
February 27^th, at 6:30 pm, First Midterm
March 3rd	18	Magnetostatic Fields: Biot-Savart’s law, applications	Chapter 7: pages 281-292
March 5^th	19	Magnetostatic Fields: Ampere’s law, applications	Chapter 7: pages 293-300
March 7^th	20	Magnetostatic Fields: Magnetic flux density, magnetic Scalar and vector potential, applications	Chapter 7: pages 301-310, 312-316
March 10^th	21	Magnetostatic Forces, Materials, and devices: Forces due to magnetic Fields, forces due to two current elements	Chapter 8: pages 331-343
March 12th	22	Magnetostatic Forces, Materials, and devices: Magnetic torque, magnetic dipole, applications	Chapter 8: pages 343-350
March 14th	23	Magnetostatic Forces, Materials, and devices: Magnetization in materials, classification of matter, magnetic boundary conditions	Chapter 8: pages 350-362
March 17th	24	Magnetostatic Forces, Materials, and devices: Inductors and inductances	Chapter 8: pages 362-365
March 19^th	25	Magnetostatic Forces, Materials, and devices: Magnetic energy, Magnetic circuits.	Chapter 8: pages 365-375
March 24^th, at 6:30 pm, Second Midterm
March 26^st	26	Maxwell’s Equations: Faraday’s law, applications	Chapter 9: pages 399-410
March 28^th	27	Maxwell’s Equations: Displacement current, final formulation of Maxwell’s equations, time-varying potentials	Chapter 9: pages 411-419
March 31^st	28	Maxwell’s Equations: Time harmonic waves, applications	Chapter 9: pages 419-432
April 2^nd	29	Maxwell’s Equations: Wave equation, General definitions	Chapter 10: pages 445-452
April 4^th	30	Maxwell’s Equations: Waves in lossy media	Chapter 10: pages 452-458
April 7th	31	Maxwell’s Equations: Plane waves, plane waves in good conductors	Chapter 10: pages 458-470

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