Courses Handbook 2009

308796 (v.1) Electromagnetic Propagation 401


Area: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 308775 (v.1) Engineering Electromagnetics 201 or any previous version
Syllabus: Time varying fields and Maxwell's equations. Plane wave propagation: reflection and transmission, normal and oblique incidence, lossless and lossy media. Guided waves: transmission lines, metal hollow waveguides and optical fibres. Radiation and antennas: electric and magnetic dipoles, practical antennas, antenna characteristics, antenna arrays, Friis equation and the Radar equation. Propagation mechanisms in mobile radio environments.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 031307 Communications Technologies
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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