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Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Field Theory course outline and Text Books

FIELD THEORY:

Module I:(8 hours)

Electrostatic fields: Review of vector calculus. Coulomb’s law, electric field intensity, electric field due to different charge distributions. Gauss’s law and applications. Electric potential. Potential gradient. Poisson’s and laplace’s equation. Energy and energy density in electric field. 

Module II:(10 hours)

Conductors and Dielectrics: Electrical properties of conductors and dielectrics. Continuity of current. Ohm’s law in point form. Electric dipole, polarization, boundary conditions. Capacitance, capacitance of parallel plate and spherical capacitors. 

Module III: (8 hours)

Magnetostatic fields: Magnetic field intensity. Biot–savart Law. Ampere’s law. Magnetic field due to straight conductor, circular loop. Magnetic flux density, scalar magnetic potential. Vector magnetic potential. Magnetic dipole and dipole moment. Differential current loop as a magnetic dipole. Torque on a current loop placed in a magnetic field. 

Module IV: (8 hours)

Fields in magnetic material: Neumann’s formula for inductance. Determination of self inductance of solenoid and toroid. Energy stored and density in a magnetic field, boundary conditions. 

Module V: (8 hours)

Electromagnetic fields: Faraday’s laws, induced emf. Transformer and motional EMF. Maxwell’s equations (differential and integral forms). Displacement current, time varying fields. 

Text Books:

1. W.H. Hayt Jr, Engineering Electromagnetics, 7/e, McGraw-Hill, 2011. 
2. David J.Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics, 4/e, PHI, 2012. 

References:

1. M.N.O. Sadiku, Elements of Electro Magnetics, 3/e, Oxford Press, 2002. 
2. Kraus and Fleisch, Electromagnetic with applications, 5/e, McGrawHill, 1999.

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