Syllabus academic year 2011/2012
(Created 2011-09-01.)
ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDSESS050
Credits: 9. Grading scale: TH. Cycle: G2 (First Cycle). Main field: Technology. Language of instruction: The course will be given in Swedish. ESS050 overlaps following cours/es: ETE055, ETEF01 and FMFF01. Compulsory for: E3. Optional for: D4, D4dpd. Course coordinator: Associate Professor Richard Lundin, Richard.Lundin@eit.lth.se, Electrical and Information Technology. Recommended prerequisits: FMA410 or FMAA05 Calculus in one variable, FMA420 Linear algebra and FMA430 Calculus in several variables. Assessment: Compulsory verification writing and written examination. Parts: 2. Home page: http://www.eit.lth.se/course/ess050.

Aim

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

Contents
Vector analysis, electrostatics, magnetostatics, induction and general time-dependence. Examples of what is treated in the course are divergence, curl, electric fields in vacuum and in materials, capacitors, system of conductors, the image method, Biot-Savart law, energy, force, inductance, the law of induction, Maxwell’s equations, plane waves and antennas.

Literature
Popovic Z: Introductory Electromagnetics. Prentice Hall.
Lundin R: Exempelsamling, Elektromagnetisk fältteori.

Parts

Code: 0103. Name: Written examination.
Higher education credits: 6. Grading scale: TH. Assessment: Written examination. Contents: Vector analysis and electromagnetic field theory.

Code: 0203. Name: Control examination.
Higher education credits: 3. Grading scale: UG. Assessment: Written examination. Contents: Vector analysis and electromagnetic field theory.