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Electromagnetic Waves
ISBN-10: 0132258714
ISBN-13: 9780132258715
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 1994
Format: Paper; 562 pp
Published: 08/25/1993
Status: Instock
For courses in advanced electromagnetics at the senior to graduate level. Assumes a first course background in electromagnetics.
This intermediate text emphasizes concepts, examples, and problem-solving techniques having wide applicability, and relies only on basic physics and mathematics — rather than electrostatics, magnetostatics, and quasistatics. The focus is on generic problem-solving techniques — both mathematical and physically-intuitive, and the presentation of basic electromagnetic theorems — Poynting, energy, uniqueness, and reciprocity — explained from a physical perspective.
- presents mathematical and physical problem-solving techniques in a way that can be extended to other subjects besides electromagnetic waves.
- interesting practical problems are provided throughout, and are the basis for end-of-chapter problems.
- progresses from simple wave propagation in unbounded free space to antenna and resonator design.
- begins directly with Maxwell's equations and their solutions in unbounded free space.
- covers the fundamental concepts of plane waves, phasors, polarization, energy, power, and force, and then applies them repeatedly throughout to problems with progressively more complex boundary conditions.
- uses “back-of-the-envelope” approximations throughout, and in some cases compares alternate problem-solving approaches — both mathematical and physically-intuitive.
- repeatedly presents — in different contexts —the relationship between electromagnetic field descriptions and electrical circuits.
Preface.
1. Introduction to Maxwell's Equations and Waves.
2. Radiation by Currents and Charges in Free Space.
3. Waves in Media.
4. Waves at Planar Boundaries.
5. Transmission Lines.
6. Transmission Line Systems.
7. Waveguides.
8. Resonators.
9. Antennas.
10. Acoustics.
Appendices:
A Review of Complex Numbers.
Vector Identities and Theorems.
List of Symbols.
Rationalized mks Units.
Numerical Constants.
Index.
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