EE 307 - Electricity and Magnetism

(Dr. John Williams, Spring 2010)

[course notes listed below]

Course Syllabus

Course Instructor:
Dr. J. D. Williams 406 Optics Building (256) 824 – 2898 williams@eng.uah.edu
Office Hours:

Required Textbook:
M. N. O. Sadiku, Elements of Electromagnetics, 4th Edition, Oxford University Press, 2006.

Optional Reading:

D. Fleisch, A Students Guide to Maxwell’s Equations, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
H.M. Schey, Div Grad Curl and all That: an Informal Text on Vector Calculus, 4th Edition, Norton and Company Inc., 2005.
Holliday, Resnick, and Walker, Fundamentals of Physics, 8th Edition, Wiley and Sons, 2008.
R. Feynman, Leighton and Sands, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume II, Addison Wesley, 2964
Z. Popovic, B.D. Popovic, Introductory Electromagnetics, Printice Hall, 1999.
D. J. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics, 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall, 2006.

Course Prerequisites:

EE 213 – Electrical Circuit Analysis I

Course Material:
Chapter 1-3. (Review Material)
Vectors Algebra, Coordinate Transformations, Vector Calculus
Chapter 4.
Coulomb’s Law, Electric Field Intensity, Charge Distribution, Electric Flux Density, Gauss’ Law, Electric Potential, E and V, Energy
Chapter 5-6.
Properties of Materials, Currents, Continuity Equation, Poisson’s Equation, Laplace’s Equation, Resistance, Capacitance, Image Theory
Chapter 7-8.
Biot-Savart Law, Ampere’s Law, Magnetic Flux Density, Maxwell’s Equations (Static), Magnetic Vector Potentials, Magnetic Forces, Magnetic Materials, Boundary Conditions
Chapter 9-10.
Faraday’s Law, Maxwell’s Equations (Time Varying), Time-Harmonic Fields, Plane Waves, Poynting Vectors