Materials#
Everything you download or reference in this course lives on this page: the course text, the equation sheet and Smith charts, the lab packets, and the slides. Each lesson page links its own materials in place; this is the one place they are all together.
Course text#
Ellingson, Steven W. (2018). Electromagnetics, Vol. 1. Blacksburg, VA: VT Publishing. doi.org/10.21061/electromagnetics-vol-1. Free and open (CC BY-SA 4.0). The primary text; every lesson’s reading is from it unless marked otherwise.
Ellingson, Steven W. (2020). Electromagnetics, Vol. 2. Blacksburg, VA: VT Publishing. doi.org/10.21061/electromagnetics-vol-2. Free and open (CC BY-SA 4.0). Sections 5.6–5.7, for normal and oblique incidence (L38–L40).
Equation sheet & charts#
ECE 343 Equation Sheet (PDF): the Spring 2025 sheet.
Impedance–admittance Smith chart (PDF, color): impedance and admittance grids on one chart, for designs that cross from \(Z\) to \(Y\).
Smith chart walkthrough (PDF): the chart from the ground up, with matching worked on the chart. Good company for L10–L13. By Frank A. Lynch (W4FAL), 24 April 2008; reproduced with attribution, original at smithchart.org.
Lab packets#
Reflection and Transmission Coefficient Lab (PDF): L15–L16. A team lab: two or three cadets to a station, one report per team.
Electrostatics Lab (Python notebook, opens in Colab): L26. A team lab: two or three cadets, one report per team. Download the notebook (.ipynb).
The Magnetostatics (L32) and Incidence (L41) lab packets will be posted here and on their lesson pages.
Spring 2025 slides#
The slides the course was taught from in Spring 2025, posted as they were while each lesson is converted to the new format. The fill-in handout is the copy to print and bring to class; the slides are the completed version. As each lesson is converted, its new notes and slides replace these on the lesson page.
Module 1: Foundations#
Deck |
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Course Introduction |
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Why Electromagnetics |
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Review and Fields |
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Transmission Line Equations |
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Reflection and Transmission Coefficients |
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Impedance Matching |
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Smith Charts |
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Transients |
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