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Waves
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Course Information
Course Syllabus-1
Vector Operators
Electric Field
Coulumb's Law, Gauss's Law, The Equations of
Poisson and Laplace, Charge Conservation,
Conductors
Electric Multipoles, Energy, Capacitance, and
Forces
Dielectric Materials
Magnetic Fields
Magnetic Flux Density (B), Vector Potantial (A),
Ampere's Circuital Law,
Magnetic Materials
Course Syllabus-2
Electrimagnetic Waves
Maxwell Equations, Uniform Plane Waves in Free
Space / Nonconductors / Conductors
Reflection and Refraction: The Basic Laws,
Fresnel's Equations, Nonuniform Plane Waves,
Total Reflection, Reflection and Refraction at the
Surface of Good Conductor
1.Outline
Introduction
This chapter meant to help those students
who are not yet proficient in the use of
vector operators
Mathematicaly a field is a function that
describes a physical quantity at all points
in the space
Scalar Fields: This quantity is specified by a
single number at each point (Temperature,
density, electric potetial)
Vector Fields:The physical quantitiy is a
vector, specified by both number and direction
(wind velocity, gravitational force)
Vector Algebra
Invariance
The quantities, that are independent of
the choice of coordinate system, are said
to be invariant
A, B and , dot or cross products
Flux
It is often necessary to
calculate flux of a vector
quantity through a surface.
The flux d of B through an
infinitesimal surface dA is
The vector dA is normal to
surface.
For a surface of finite area of
A,
hand faces
The Total is
The divergence of B is
The integrals
Similarly
and
If we set
Then
And
StokessTheorem
Similarly
The valume element is
Cylindrical Coordinates
In cylindrical coordinates q1=, q2= and
q3=z
The vector that defines the point of P is
Spherical Coordinates
In sphericall coordinates q1=r, q2= and
q3 =
The distance element is
The Gradient
The gradient is the vector rate of change
of a scalar function f
The Divergence
The divergence for orthogonal curcilinear
coordinates
The Curl
The curl for orthogonal curcilinear
coordinates
The Laplacian-1
The laplace for scalar function f
The Laplacian-2
For the laplace for vectoral function B, the
equation
is used. Then