For a first course in Electrical Engineering as well as in Computer Engineering, followed by one or more required or elective courses for electrical engineering students, that build on the first course.
This successful text with its versatile approach includes thorough coverage of statics with an emphasis on the dynamics of engineering electromagnetics. It integrates practical applications, numerical details, and completely covers all relevant principles.
This is a successful book with a versatile approach including thorough coverage of statics with an emphasis on the dynamics of engineering electromagnetics. It integrates practical applications, numerical details, and the thorough coverage of principles.
FEATURES/BENEFITS
- NEW―Two-part coverage: Fundamental Elements, and Applied Elements―Associates the chapters on Applied Elements with major technologies based on Maxwell's equations.
- Serves the needs of twenty-first century electromagnetics.
- NEW―Material on Crosstalk on Transmission Lines; Pulse Broadening in Dispersive Medium; and Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method.
- NEW―Review problems―Follow homework problems in each chapter.
- Serve as review of material covered in a chapter by integrating concepts introduced in more than one section of the chapter.
- Uniform plane waves―Presents topic immediately following Maxwell's equations chapters, which are introduced collectively, in integral form and then in differential form.
- Comprehensive coverage of field and line topics―Begins with p-n junction and circuit elements, progresses through transmission-line time-domain analysis, leading to interconnections between logic gates, and culminating in crosstalk on transmission lines.
- Coverage of principles of guided waves developed in one chapter―For both electronics and optoelectronics.
- Confines the treatment to one-dimensional wave guides comprising parallel-plate metallic waveguides followed by dielectric slab waveguides.
- Devotes a full chapter to pertinent topics of electronics and photonics―Ch. 10 including two-dimensional metallic waveguides and optical fibers; interference and diffraction; and wave propagation in an anisotropic medium.
- Focus on numerical methods―Comprising the finite-difference method; method of moments; finite-element method; and finite-difference time-domain method.
- Dynamic field approach―Builds basic material upon time varying fields while retaining important topics of static fields.
- Sinusoidal steady-state analysis of transmission lines.
- Familiarizes the reader with graphical and computer solutions.
- Radiation introduction followed by basic concepts of antennas.
- Demonstrates for the reader the complete field solution to the Hertzian dipole field through the magnetic vector potential.
- Solid pedagogy―105 worked examples, 162 drill problems with answers, marginal notes, chapter summaries, and review questions.
- Practical application discussions and experiment demonstrations.
