Please note! Course description is confirmed for two academic years, which means that in general, e.g. Learning outcomes, assessment methods and key content stays unchanged. However, via course syllabus, it is possible to specify or change the course execution in each realization of the course, such as how the contact sessions are organized, assessment methods weighted or materials used.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Understanding of the concepts in electromagnetics: electric and magnetic fields, charges, currents, forces, energies, radiation, static and dynamic fields. Ability to solve quantitatively problems involving electromagnetic sources; to compute fields created by charges and currents in a given environment in basic geometrical constellations. Ability to connect, on a basic level, the mathematical description of electromagnetism into electrical engineering applications light phenomena of everyday life.

Credits: 5

Schedule: 01.03.2021 - 14.04.2021

Teacher in charge (valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022): Matti Raasakka, Ari Sihvola, Ilkka Tittonen

Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Matti Raasakka, Ari Sihvola, Ilkka Tittonen

Contact information for the course (valid 05.02.2021-21.12.2112):

Professor Ari Sihvola (ari.sihvola@aalto.fi)

CEFR level (applies in this implementation):

Language of instruction and studies (valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022):

Teaching language: English

Languages of study attainment: English

CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD

Content
  • Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:

    Classical electrostatics and magnetostatics: electric and magnetic fields due to charges and steady currents. Conductors and insulators. Electrodynamics: Maxwell equations and their basic solutions. Plane waves, reflection from and transmission through interfaces. Radiation from a Hertzian dipole. The required mathematical tools.

Assessment Methods and Criteria
  • Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:

    Graded homework problems, exam.

Workload
  • Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:

    24 hours lectures

    12 hours exercise sessions

    3 hours exam

    96 hours independent studies

DETAILS

Study Material
  • Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:

    David K. Cheng: Fundamentals of Engineering Electromagnetics 

  • Applies in this implementation:

    We'll follow this book with main emphasis on Chapters 1-7 and 10.

    In the Aalto university library, several copies are available. The book "Field and Wave Electromagnetics" by the same author is a more extensive version of the same material, and is also a good source, containing additional details for any interested student.

Prerequisites
  • Valid 01.08.2020-31.07.2022:

    Differential and integral calculus 

    Basics of classical mechanics

SDG: Sustainable Development Goals

    7 Affordable and Clean Energy

    9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure