COURSE OUTLINE FOR ELECTROMAGNETISM

School HITBAMAS
Department NETWORKS AND SECURITY / TELECOMMUNICATIONS/
Program HND
Course Title ELECTROMAGNETISM
Course Code TEL 122
LECTURER Dr. Mbieda Ngomegni Frank G.
Qualification Doctorate/Ph.D
Contact: Telephone No 675243120 / 694331118
Email address fgngomegni@gmail.com
Credit Value 3
Credit Hours 24
Level 200
Semester First
Date 19/09/2022
Course Description. This specialty trains technicians to become familiar with electromagnetic
applications such as capacitors, inductors, actuators, transformers,
transmission lines, Smith charts, impedance matching circuits, waveguides
and antennas, that are used in the designs and implementations of electrical
power systems and modern wireless communications systems

COURSE OBJECTIVES This course aims to introduce basic electromagnetism and establish the
fundamentals of electromagnetic devices and high-frequency electronic
components in engineering applications such as the energy systems,
telecommunications, computing and other technologies.

EXPECTED OUTCOME At the end of the course the students should be able to:

 Use Gauss’, Ampere’s and Faraday’s laws in the context of design

and apply them in the evaluation of electrical devices such as power
cables, actuators, transformers, etc.
 Analyse characteristics of capacitors, inductor, by evaluating time
impact of dielectric and magnetic materials properties and calculate
induced forces from their stored energies
 Describe and apply the fundamental properties of propagation mode
in waveguides
 Identify the conditions that make the lumped-element models of
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 electrical circuits break down at high frequency (HF), and replace
them with distributed element models.
 The major actors in telephony services

WEEKS (UNITS) TOPICS

WEEK 1  Introduction Electromagnetism.
 Course presentation and objective.
 Areas of applications
 History of electromagnetism
WEEK 2 FIELDS OF STATIONARY: ELECTRIC CHARGES
 Coulomb's Law,
 Electric Field Intensity E,
 Electric Potential V
WEEK 3 FIELDS OF STATIONARY: ELECTRIC CHARGES
 Gauss's Law,
 Poisson's and Laplace's Equations,
 Uniqueness Theorem
 Capacitance, Energy, and Forces
WEEK 4 DIELECTRICS
 Electric Polarization P,
 Bound Charges, Gauss's Law,
 Electric Displacement D
 Continuity Conditions at an Interface,
 Energy Density and Forces, Displacement Current
WEEK 5 MAGNETIC FIELDS
 The Magnetic Induction B and the Vector Potential A
 Ampere's Circuital Law
 Transformation of Electric and Magnetic Fields
 The Faraday Induction Law
Week 6 First Continuous Assessment (Compulsory)

WEEK 7  Mutual Inductance M and Self-Inductance L

 Magnetic Forces
 Magnetic Materials
 Impedance, Kirchoff' s Laws,
 Transformations
WEEK 8 ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
 Introduction
 Displacement Current
 Maxwell’s Equations
 Electromagnetic
WEEK 9  Mathematical of Electromagnetic
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  Energy and Momentum of Electromagnetic
 Problems Review and Mind streching
WEEK 10 INTERFERENCE. DIFFRACTION A N D POLARIZATION
 Introduction
 Interference of Light
 Diffraction and the Diffraction Grating
 Problems for Review and Mind Stretching
WEEK 11  Light as a Wave
 Light as Particles
 Matter Waves
 Probability and Uncertainty
 Problems for Review and Mind Stretching
WEEK 12  General revision
 Exercises and discussions
WEEK 13 Second Continuous Assessment (Compulsory)

WEEK 14 Correction of continuous assessments and general revision

WEEK 15 End Of Course Examination (compulsory)

MODE OF EVALUATION
 Attendance 10%
 Continuous Assessment 20%
 Final semester exam 70%
 Nature of course: 35% Practical 65% Theory

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