15EC36 Engineering Electromagnetics syllabus for EC



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Module-1 Coulomb’s Law, Electric Field Intensity and Flux density 10 hours

Coulomb’s Law, Electric Field Intensity and Fluxdensity
Experimental law of Coulomb, Electric field intensity,Field due to continuous volume charge distribution,Field of a line charge, Electric flux density.

Module-2 Gauss’s law and Divergence 10 hours

Gauss’s law and Divergence
Gauss’ law, Divergence. Maxwell’s First equation(Electrostactics), Vector Operator ▼ and divergencetheorem.
Energy, Potential and Conductors
Energy expended in moving a point charge in an electricfield, The line integral, Definition of potential differenceand potential, The potential field of point charge, Currentand Current density, Continuity of current.

Module-3 Poisson’s and Laplace’s Equations 10 hours

Poisson’s and Laplace’s Equations
Derivation of Poisson’s and Laplace’s Equations,Uniqueness theorem, Examples of the solution ofLaplace’s equation.
Steady Magnetic Field
Biot-Savart Law, Ampere’s circuital law, Curl, Stokes’theorem, Magnetic flux and magnetic flux density, Scalarand Vector Magnetic Potentials.

Module-4 Magnetic Forces 10 hours

Magnetic Forces
Force on a moving charge, differential current elements,Force between differential current elements.
Magnetic Materials
Magnetisation and permeability, Magnetic boundaryconditions, Magnetic circuit, Potential Energy and forceson magnetic materials.

Module-5 Time-varying fields and Maxwell’s equations 10 hours

Time-varying fields and Maxwell’s equations
Farday’s law, displacement current, Maxwell’sequations in point form, Maxwell’s equations in integralform.
Uniform Plane Wave
Wave propagation in free space and good conductors.Poynting’s theorem and wave power, Skin Effect.

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