Level 5 7052 Electromagnetic Theory and RFID Applications

Some of the notes for the year 2010 are not yet available. As they do become available, the number of items on this page will increase. The content of some may change. It will be evident when such changes occur.

General information

In the first tutorial there will be an interesting development known as the lecturer's research exercise.
The below items of general information are now available.
Course description (new on 11 Jul 10)
• Lecture places and times (amended 26 Jul 10)
• How to contact the lecturer (new on 11 Jul 10)
• Hours of consultation (amended on 25 Jul 10)
• Quiz dates and times (amended on 26 Jul 10)
• Schedule of lectures, tutorials and quizzes (amended on 21 Oct 10)
• Lecturer's research exercise (new on 12 Jul 10)
• Answers to Lecturer's research exercise (new on 1 Aug 10)
• Some RFID applications (new on 11 Oct 10)

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  Lecture outlines

  Lecture outlines will be supplied progressively over the semester.
• Outline for Lecture 1 (amended on 27 Jul 10)
• Outline for Lecture 2 (new on 27 Jul 10)
• Outline for Lecture 3 (new on 29 Jul 10)
• Outline for Lecture 4 (revised on 8 Aug 10)
• Outline for Lecture 5 (updated on 10 Aug 10)
• Outline for Lecture 6 (new on 10 Aug 10)
• Outline for Lecture 7 (new on 12 Aug 10)
• Outline for Lecture 8 (new on 17 Aug 10)
• Outline for Lecture 9 (new on 19 Aug 10)
• Outline for Lecture 10 (revised on 22 Aug 10)
• Outline for Lecture 11 (new on 23 Aug 10)
• Outline for Lecture 12 (revised on 5 Nov 10)
• Outline for Lecture 13 (new on 30 Aug 10)
• Outline for Lecture 14 (amended on 12 Sep 10)
• Outline for Lecture 15 (amended on 12 Sep 10)
• Outline for Lecture 16 (amended on 12 Sep 10)
• Outline for Lecture 17 (amended on 12 Sep 10)
• Outline for Lecture 18 (amended on 5 Oct 10)
• Outline for Lecture 19 (amended on 5 Oct 10) Outline for Lecture 20 (amended on 5 Oct 10)

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  Lecture notes

  The lecture notes will be available in seven parts which, when they are ready, will appear below.

• Part 1: Electromagnetic theory: a simple introduction (new on 11 Jul 2010)
• Part 2: Electromagnetic theory: the differential calculus approach (new on 11 Jul 2010)
• Part 3: Distributed circuits and radiation (new on 11 Jul 2010)
• Part 4: Essential background knowledge (new on 11 Jul 2010)
• Part 5: Advanced electromagnetic theory (new on 12 Jul 2010)
• Part 6: Electromagnetic compatibility measurements (new on 12 Jul 2010)
• Part 7: Fundamentals in RFID (revised on 14 Oct 2010)

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  Other notes

  Other notes which supplement to information provided in the formally identified lecture notes appear below.

• Properties of uniform plane waves (new on 12 Jul 10)
• Phasors and Available Source Power (new on 12 Jul 10)
• How to think about electrodynamics (new on 12 Jul 10)
• Some notes on sources and vortices (new on 12 Jul 10)
• An English to Mandarin Dictionary (new on 12 Jul 10)
• Charge transport in semiconductors (new on 12 Jul 10)
• Smith Chart (new on 18 Aug 2010)
• Overlaid impedance and admittance Smith Charts (new on 18 Aug 2010)
• Formulae supplied in examinations (new on 29 Aug 10)
• Some notes on magnetostatic vector potential (new on 12 Jul 10)
• Notes on coupling volume theory (new on 31 Aug 08)

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  Quizzes

• Quiz 1 (new on 17 Aug 10)
• Quiz 1 (new on 20 Oct 10)
• Quiz 1 answers (new on 17 Aug 10)
• Quiz 2 answers (new on 20 Oct 10)
  Quiz 2 answers are a doc file becasure they would not convert properly to pdf.

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  Tutorials

• Tutorial 2 (corrected on 6 Aug 10)
• Tutorial 3 (new on 13 Jul 10)
• Tutorial 4 (new on 13 Jul 10)
• Tutorial 5 (new on 13 Jul 10)
• Tutorial 6 (new on 13 Jul 10)
• Tutorial 7 (new on 13 Jul 10)
• Tutorial 8 (new on 13 Jul 10)
• Tutorial 9 (new on 28 Sep 10)
• Tutorial 2 answers (corrected on 6 Aug 10)
• Tutorial 3 answers (new on 20 Aug 10)
• Tutorial 4 answers (new on 26 Aug 10)
• Tutorial 5 answers (slightly expanded on 2 Sep 10)
• Tutorial 6 answers (corrected and further expanded on 10 Sep 10)
• Tutorial 7 answers (corrected on 11 Sep 10)
• Tutorial 8 answers (revised again on 5 Nov 10)
• Tutorial 9 answers (corrrected on 29 Oct 10)
• Answers to Fundamentals Exercises (revised on 14 Oct 10)
  Further answers will come at suitable times.

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