ELECTROMAGNETIC
FIELDS AND WAVES
COURSE CODE: 0714-225
Course Teachers:
Section A\B Section C\D\E
Khondokar Zahin Sudipto Pramanik
Lecturer Lecturer
Department of EEE, DIU Department of EEE, DIU
Room No: 208 Room No: 207
Class Routine:
• A semester consists of 15 weeks of class and Mid-Term and Final Exam weeks.
• Weekly 2 classes of 1.5 hours duration are conducted for 3.0 credits theory
courses.
Section Monday Tuesday
Tutorial Class
A 8:20 am -
9:50 am
1:10 pm -
2:40 pm • For each theory course, minimum two tutorial classes must
be conducted.
Section Sunday Tuesday
• Attendance records of the tutorial classes need to be
B 8:20 am -
9:50 am
9:50 am –
11:20 am submitted.
Course Information:
Credit: 3
Contact Hours: 3 Hours/ Week
Pre-requisite:
• Physics (0533-111)
• Differential and Integral Calculus (0541-
111)
• Coordinate Geometry and Vector
Analysis (0541-211)
* A Course Profile will be shared with the students
Course Objectives:
Familiarizing with Different Mathematical Tools for Investigating Different Electromagnetic
Systems.
Understanding Diverse Magnetostatic and Electrostatic Systems.
To Study Different Electromagnetic Waves Functionalities in accordance with Various
Theories.
Course Contents:
• Basic Laws of Vector Analysis: Orthogonal Coordinate Systems; Transformation between Coordinate Systems
Curvilinear coordinates, rectangular, cylindrical, and spherical coordinates, Differential Length, Area and Volume;
Line, Surface and Volume Integrals; Gradient, Divergence and Curl of Fields.
• Electrostatics: Coulomb’s law, force, electric field intensity, electrical flux density. Gauss's Law with an application,
Divergence of an Electrostatic Field, Electrostatic potential, Electric Dipole, boundary conditions in Electrostatics,
Laplace's and Poisson's equations, the energy of an electrostatic system.
• Magnetostatics: Concepts of a magnetic field, Ampere's law, Stoke's Theorem, (Mid term) Vector magnetic potential,
Magnetic Dipole, Energy of a Static Magnetic Field, Completeness of Specification of Electric and Magnetic Fields.
• Maxwell's equations: Voltages induced by changing Magnetic Fields, Continuity of charge, the concept of
displacement current, physical picture of displacement current, Maxwell's Equations in Differential Equation form, in
Large Scale form, and for the periodic case. Poynting's Theorem for Energy relations in an Electromagnetic Field.
Application of Maxwell's Equations in Wave Propagation, Application of Maxwell's Equations in Penetration of
Electromagnetic Fields into a Good Conductor. Boundary Conditions for Time-Varying Systems, Wave Propagation.
Potentials used with varying charges and currents, The Retarded Potential concepts.
Textbook(s):
• David K. Cheng, “Field and wave electromagnetics” - 2 nd Edition.
• Matthew N. O. Sadiku, “Principles of Electromagnetics” - 4 th Edition.
