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 Electromagnetic Engineering - ELEC3115
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Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 5
 
 
Equivalent: ELEC2015
 
 
Excluded: PHYS3050
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description

General field properties, static electric fields, static magnetic fields. Boundary value problems and method of images. Materials: dielectric and magnetic materials, their properties, capacitance and inductance, applications. Electromagnetic spectrum: uses, health and regulatory considerations. Time-varying fields and Maxwell's equations: forms, boundary conditions. Transformers and electrical machines: rotating magnetic fields, coupling in magnetic circuits, energy conversion, electrodynamic forces. Skin effect and skin depth, hysteresis and eddy current losses, dielectric losses. Plane electromagnetic waves in lossless/lossy media: polarisation, group velocity dispersion, energy flows, Poynting vector, reflection/refraction at boundary. Transmission lines: wave characteristics, impedance and matching. Waveguides: modal analysis of rectangular metallic and planar dielectric waveguides. Antennas: antenna patterns and parameters, linear dipole, antenna array.


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