Course Content
Transmission line equations. Impedance of loaded and unloaded transmission lines. Reflections and VSWR. Smith chart and its use in impedance matching and other transmission line problems.Propagation of electromagnetic waves in different media. Reflection and refraction at different boundaries. Total reflection and polarizing angle. Ground wave and sky wave propagation.Parallel plane and rectangular waveguides. Attenuation in wave guides.Radiation of electromagnetic waves. Dipole and array of dipoles for medium wave and short wave transmission.
Text / References
- 1 E.C. Jordon and E.G. Balmain, Electro-magnetic Waves and Radiation Systems, 2nd Ed.Prentice Hall India, 1986.D K Cheng, Fundamentals of Eleectromagnetics, Addison Wesley, MA 1993.R K Shevgaonkar, Electromagnetic Waves, McGraw Hill Education, India 2006.