PA Sessions for the Week of October 1, 2007

Don't forget: Everyone has PA sessions this week, and you should go to 4275ME for your session.

The PA problems are taken from:

Field and Wave Electromagnetics, Second Edition, by David K. Cheng.

P.3-11, P.3-13, P.3-15, P.3-18, P.3-20

It would be worth your time to take a quick look before you go to the session. Maybe you can stump Khaled!

Lab #2

Hi All,

Lab #2 can be found HERE.

Note that a few things in the Lab need to be edited (I will get an updated version from the TAs and replace the one I posted). Here's a summary of the changes:

1. The lab is being held in 4275ME (not 6030MC as stated in the lab).
2. You need an account on Nagui's lab network. He will make the accounts when you show up for the lab.
3. Step 4 on Page 3 of the lab handout states "Extract to W:/Maxwell". This location may change depending on Nagui's network configuration. The TAs (or Nagui) will tell you where you can save your files.

Otherwise I think the lab is straightforward. It's written as a "do this, find that" type of lab.

For your lab write-up, let's keep things simple. Just answer the questions that the lab poses in the order they are given. Keep your answers concise. You can capture screen shots of plots and include them in your report instead of redrawing plots from the screen. You can either write up your lab by hand, or you can type it up on the computers in the lab.

When the time is up, or you're done the lab, print out your lab write-up and give it to the TA before you leave. Make sure that the document is properly stapled together.

Course Notes Quick Fix

Well, I'm not happy. My webserver can be accessed from DOE or from off-campus, but as far as I can tell not from many (any?) locations on campus. That's why the links below are showing up as dead when you click on them.

For now, I've moved the course notes to a machine that CCS trusts. The links to the notes below should work. Let me know if there are any problems.

Anyone who was accessing the notes from home via Rogers Cable, Bell, etc., should have been able to download the notes without a problem. Let me know if that is not the case.

PA Session A3O

As mentioned below, the first PA session will be held today for section A3O. You can find an advance copy of the PA questions HERE.

Course Notes

Well, I was fighting with font embedding, but I think I've prevailed. You can find the course notes as follows:

1. Cover page and foreword (~40KB).
2. All slides, one per page as a PDF file (~30MB).
3. All slides, four per page as a PDF file (~15MB).

I would print these double sided, and then bind along the long edge. The cover page can go on the outer cover.

The IEEE will print 33 copies of the four-slides-per-page version, and 2 copies of the single-slide-per-page version (as requested in class; if you weren't in class, contact the IEEE to get your copy printed).

PA Sessions

Someone asked if the PA sessions will start this week.....that's a great idea! Actually, I had a meeting with the TAs on Friday, and we decided to start the PA sessions this week, and the labs will commence next week.

The Problem I Assigned

Hi All,

A few people didn't catch what I said about the "two media" and Coulomb's Law. So here it is again:

Suppose you have two different media, one with associated relative permittivity e1 (epsilon_1) and the other with e2. Recall in the Coulomb's Law equation that there is the relative permittivity embedded in the expression for k. Now, the question is this: suppose charge q1 is in media #1, and q2 is in media #2. Which permittivity do you use when finding the force acting on q1 due to q2 (and vice versa, which permittivity do you use for the force on q2 due to q1)?

Welcome 97.3105 Fall 2007

Well, we are off to the races with the start of the new term. I'd like to welcome you all to 97.3105. Hopefully you will find it to be an interesting and worthwhile course.

You can find this week's lectures HERE and HERE.