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Electromagnetic Waves (EX-603 (C)) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

Transmission Lines

  • Introduction
  • Concept of distributed elements
  • Equations of voltage and current
  • Standing waves and impedance transformation
  • Lossless and low‑loss transmission lines
  • Power transfer on a transmission line
  • Analysis of transmission line in terms of admittances
  • Transmission line calculations with the help of Smith chart
  • Applications of transmission line
  • Impedance matching using transmission lines
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Unit 2

Maxwell’s Equations

  • Basic quantities of Electromagnetics
  • Basic laws of Electromagnetics: Gauss’s law
  • Ampere’s Circuital law
  • Faraday’s law of Electromagnetic induction
  • Maxwell’s equations
  • Surface charge and surface current
  • Boundary conditions at media interface
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Unit 3

Uniform Plane Wave

  • Homogeneous unbound medium
  • Wave equation for time harmonic fields
  • Solution of the wave equation
  • Uniform plane wave
  • Wave polarization
  • Wave propagation in conducting medium
  • Phase velocity of a wave
  • Power flow and Poynting vector
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Unit 4

Plane Waves at Media Interface

  • Plane wave in arbitrary direction
  • Plane wave at dielectric interface
  • Reflection and refraction of waves at dielectric interface
  • Total internal reflection
  • Wave polarization at media interface
  • Brewster angle
  • Fields and power flow at media interface
  • Lossy media interface
  • Reflection from conducting boundary
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Unit 5

Waveguides

  • Parallel plane waveguide: Transverse Electric (TE) mode
  • Transverse Magnetic (TM) mode
  • Cut‑off frequency
  • Phase velocity and dispersion
  • Transverse Electromagnetic (TEM) mode
  • Analysis of waveguide – general approach
  • Rectangular waveguides
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Unit 6

Antennas

  • Radiation parameters of antenna
  • Potential functions
  • Solution for potential functions
  • Radiations from Hertz dipole
  • Near field
  • Far field
  • Total power radiated by a dipole
  • Radiation resistance and radiation pattern of Hertz dipole
  • Hertz dipole in receiving mode

Reference Books

  • R. K. Shevgaonkar, “Electromagnetic Waves”, Tata McGraw Hill, 2005.
  • D. K. Cheng, “Field and Wave Electromagnetics”, Addison‑Wesley, 1989.
  • M. N. O. Sadiku, “Elements of Electromagnetics”, Oxford University Press, 2007.
  • C. A. Balanis, “Advanced Engineering Electromagnetics”, John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
  • C. A. Balanis, “Antenna Theory: Analysis and Design”, John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
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