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Spring 2011 Detailed Course Outline |
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Review Text: Transient Signals on Transmission Lines by Peterson & Durgin.
Available free from GT library; requires prism account log-on; text is listed under Computational Electromagnetics. |
Tuesday |
Thursday |
1/11
Review of Phasors and T-Lines
Notes 14,
Notes 15, Notes 16
Review of Phasors |
1/13
Sinusoidal Transmission Lines
Common T-Line Geometries
Sinusoidal T-Line Movies
Notes 17,
Cheng p. 427-470 |
1/18
Smith Charts for T-Lines
Notes 18,
Cheng p. 485-497 |
1/20
Impedance Matching Techniques
Notes 19,
Cheng p. 497-501 |
1/25
Stub-Matching and Splices
Notes 20,
Cheng p. 501-509 |
1/27
Wave Equation
Handouts,
Cheng p. 332-345
Homework 1 collected
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2/1
Plane Waves and Polarization
Cheng p. 354-367, plane wave example, 3D Plane Waves |
2/3
Dielectric Reflection
Cheng p. 386-401
Homework 2 collected
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2/8
Reflection at Oblique Incidence
Cheng p. 406-417, Fresnel Formula Sheet |
2/10
Total Reflection, Brewster Angle
Cheng p. 406-417,
Supplemental Plane Wave Reading |
2/15
Link Budget Equation and Path Loss
class handout
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2/22
catch-up day
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2/24
Test 1
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3/1
Diffraction Theory
notes on Geometrical Theory of Diffraction
for the really motivated student: Sommerfeld Derivation
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3/3
Small-Scale Fading
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3/8
Introduction to Waveguides
Notes 27, Cheng p. 534-543
Homework 4 collected
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3/10
General Waveguides
Notes 28, Cheng p. 520-534
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3/15
Rectangular Waveguide
Notes 29, Cheng p. 547-559
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3/17
Circular and Dielectric Waveguides
Notes on Bessel Funcs, Circular Waveguide TM Pictures, Cheng p. 562-572
Homework 5 collected |
3/21 -- 3/25 Spring Break |
3/29
Lossy Waveguides
Notes 30, Cheng p. 543-546, 555-559 Cavity Resonators
Cheng p. 582-591
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3/31
Transmission Line Resonators
Notes 22, Notes 23 |
4/5
Practical Coupling of Resonators
Notes 24
Homework 7 collected
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4/7
Test 2 |
4/12
no class -- project work day
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4/14
no class -- project work day |
4/19
Characterization of s-parameters
Notes 25
Properties of s-Parameters
Notes 26
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4/21
Brach Line Hybrids
Notes 27 |
4/26
Rigorous Radiation Theory
Lecture Notes ANT1
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4/28
Wire Antennas
Lecture Notes ANT2 |
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5/5
Final Exam, 11:30am to 2:20pm |
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