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Spring Semester 2009
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Individual grades may be accessed through 'blackboard'
Meeting time: M W F 10:00 - 10:50 a.m.
Meeting Room: 316 BH
Instructor: Prof. S. Laxpati
Room: 1105 SEO
Office Hours: M W F 11 - 12 noon and 2 - 3 pm..
Textbook and References: LECTURE NOTES
Text:
Course Package available at UIC bookstore
Antennas For All Applications (Third Edition)
John D. Kraus and Ronald J. Marhefka
McGraw-Hill
2002
ISBN: 0072321032
Syllabus:Antenna Parameters
Isotropic Source
Arrays
Wire Antennas - dipoles, loops and helices
Aperture Antennas - slots, patches and horns
Self and Mutual Impedances
Wave propagation
Things you should have mastered:
Complex numbers and algebra
Vector Calculus
Phasor and its applications
Static Electric and Magnetic Fields
Lapace's and Poisson's Equations
Maxwell's Equations
Plane Waves and Wave Propagation in homogeneous media
Reflection and Refraction
Auxiliary Potentials
Introduction to Radiation
Poynting's Theorem
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