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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

308775 (v.1) Engineering Electromagnetics 201

Area: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 3.0
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):     307535 (v.3) Engineering Mathematics 110 or any previous version
    OR
    307536 (v.4) Engineering Mathematics 120 or any previous version
    OR
    10926 (v.5) Mathematics 103 or any previous version
AND
    307537 (v.3) Engineering Mathematics 130 or any previous version
    OR
    307538 (v.3) Engineering Mathematics 140 or any previous version
Syllabus: Vector analysis: scalar and vector fields, vector operators, line, surface and volume integrals, and differential operators. Coordinate systems: Cartesian, circular cylindrical and spherical, and transformation between coordinate systems. Electrostatic field: Coulombs' law, electric field intensity, electric flux density, Gauss' law, electrostatic energy and potential, capacitors, Laplace's and Poisson's equations. Magnetostatic field: magnetic flux density, magnetic force, Stokes' theorem and Ampere's circuital law, boundary conditions. Time varying fields: displacement current, Faraday's law, inductance and Maxwell's equations.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 031301 Electrical Engineering
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2012 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External