Calendar

January 2024
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17 1 Overview, Maxwell's equations	18	19 2 Static fields and potentials	20	21
22 3 Lorenz gauge and inhomogeneous wave equation Paper:Vector potential interpretations	23	24 4 Time-harmonic sources and retarded potentials Paper:Why we use retarded potentials Paper:Aichelburg+Beig 1976	25	26 5 Vector calculus in spherical coordinates	27	28
29 6 Spherical waves	30	31 7 Hertzian dipole fields Notes:FAQ on radiation ;-)

February 2024
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
			1	2 8 Radiation fields of dipole antennas	3	4
5 9 Poynting vector, radiated power, radiation resistance NEC Mac: Short Dipole NEC Mac: 1D Array NEC PC: Short Dipole NEC PC: 1D Array	6	7 10 Antenna gain, beam pattern, directivity	8	9 11 Beam pattern, wave interference	10	11
12 12 Interference, antennas arrays --- cont'd Plot: Digital sinc	13	14 13 Array feed networks	15	16 14 Interference zones, plane waves Paper: Clarke	17	18
19 EXAM 1	20	21 15 Plane-wave form of Maxwell's equations, propagation in arbitrary direction	22	23 16 Reflection and transmission, TE mode	24	25
26 17 Reflection and transmission, TE mode Paper: Microphysics Plot: Reflection Coefficients	27	28 18 Reflecting plates, monopole antennas, corner reflectors Pictures: Big antennas Picture: Arecibo catwalk	29

March 2024
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
				1 19 Total internal reflection and evanescent waves	2	3
4 20 Antenna reception and reciprocity	5	6 21 Antenna reception and effective area Plot: V_TH of open short dipole	7	8 22 Doppler shift	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18 EXAM 2	19	20 23 Doppler radars Anim: Standing waves Anim: Doppler and reflection	21	22 24 Dispersion and propagation in collisionless plasmas Paper: Relativity notes	23	24
25 25 Phase and group velocities and delays Movie: Ionograms	26	27 26 Evanescent waves and tunneling Anim: Group velocity Anim: Dispersive vs non-dispersive Anim: Square wave dispersing	28	29 27 Parallel-plate waveguides: TE modes	30	31

April 2024
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
1 28 Parallel-plate waveguides: TM modes Tool: Smith Chart	2	3 29 Parallel-plate waveguides: example problems	4	5 EOH	6	7
8 30 Exciting and detecting waveguide modes	9	10 31 TM modes in rectangular waveguides	11	12 32 TE modes in rectangular waveguides	13	14
15 33 Guide impedance and TL analogies	16	17 34 TE modes in dielectric slab waveguides	18	19 35 TM modes in dielectric slab waveguides	20	21
22 EXAM 3	23	24 36 Rectangular cavities	25	26 37 Resonant modes and field fluctuations	27	28
29 38 Cavity radiation and thermal noise Paper: Nyquist Paper Paper: Thermal Noise	30