'Electromagnetic Theory' is a course offered in the third semester of B. Tech. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering program at School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
Unit 1
Vectors and co-ordinate systems: Cartesian, cylindrical and spherical co-ordinate systems- scalar and vector fields.
Electric and Magnetic fields: line, surface and volume integrals - Coulomb’s law - Gauss’s law - Biot-Savart’s law - Ampere’s circuital law – applications - boundary conditions for electric and magnetic fields - Lorentz force equation.
Unit 2
Maxwell’s equations: gradient, curl and divergence - Maxwell’s equation in integral form - Law of conservation of charge - Maxwell’s equation in differential form - continuity equation - boundary condition for electromagnetic fields.
Electric potential - Poisson’s and Laplace’s equations – capacitance - energy stored - magnetic scalar and vector potentials - magnetic circuits – inductance - energy stored-conductance.
Unit 3
Uniform plane waves and sinusoidally varying waves in time domain and in free space – polarization - power flow and Poynting vector - wave parameters - plane waves in material media - skin effect - reflection and transmission of uniform plane waves - normal and oblique incidence in conductor and dielectric interfaces.
- N. Narayana Rao, “Elements of Engineering Electromagnetics”, Sixth Edition, Pearson Education, 2006.
- David K. Cheng, “Field and Wave Electromagnetics”, Second Edition, Pearson Education, 2002.
- William H. Hayt, John A. Buck, “Engineering Electromagnetics”, Seventh Edition, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Limited, 2007.
- Sadiku, “Elements of Electromagnetics”, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2014.
