EEE 498/598

Overview of Electrical
Engineering
Lecture 2:
Introduction to Electromagnetic Fields;
Maxwell’s Equations; Electromagnetic Fields in
Materials; Phasor Concepts;
Electrostatics: Coulomb’s Law, Electric Field, Discrete
and Continuous Charge Distributions; Electrostatic
Potential

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 Lecture 2 Objectives
 To provide an overview of classical
electromagnetics, Maxwell’s equations,
electromagnetic fields in materials, and phasor
concepts.
 To begin our study of electrostatics with
Coulomb’s law; definition of electric field;
computation of electric field from discrete and
continuous charge distributions; and scalar
electric potential.

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 Introduction to Electromagnetic
Fields
 Electromagnetics is the study of the effect
of charges at rest and charges in motion.
 Some special cases of electromagnetics:
 Electrostatics: charges at rest
 Magnetostatics: charges in steady motion (DC)

 Electromagnetic waves: waves excited by

charges in time-varying motion

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 Introduction to Electromagnetic
Fields
Fundamental laws of Maxwell’s
classical electromagnetics equations

Special Electro- Magneto- Electro- Geometric

cases statics statics magnetic Optics
waves

Statics: 0 Transmission
t
Line
Theory
Input from Circuit
other Theory Kirchoff’s
disciplines d  
Laws

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Introduction to Electromagnetic
Fields

• transmitter and receiver

are connected by a “field.”

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Introduction to Electromagnetic
Fields
High-speed, high-density digital circuits:
2 3

1 4
• consider an interconnect between points “1” and “2”

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 Introduction to Electromagnetic
Fields
2
v1(t), V

0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
2 t (ns)  Propagation delay

 Electromagnetic
v2(t), V

0
coupling
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
2 t (ns)  Substrate modes
v3(t), V

0
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
t (ns)

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 Introduction to Electromagnetic
Fields
 When an event in one place has an effect
on something at a different location, we
talk about the events as being connected
by a “field”.
 A field is a spatial distribution of a
quantity; in general, it can be either
scalar or vector in nature.

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 Introduction to Electromagnetic
Fields
 Electric and magnetic fields:
 Are vector fields with three spatial
components.
 Vary as a function of position in 3D space
as well as time.
 Are governed by partial differential
equations derived from Maxwell’s
equations.
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 Introduction to Electromagnetic
Fields
 A scalar is a quantity having only an
amplitude (and possibly phase).
Examples: voltage, current, charge, energy, temperature

 A vector is a quantity having direction in

addition to amplitude (and possibly phase).
Examples: velocity, acceleration, force

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Introduction to Electromagnetic
Fields
 Fundamental vector field quantities in
electromagnetics:
 Electric field intensity  E
units = volts per meter (V/m = kg m/A/s3)
 Electric flux density (electric displacement)  D 
units = coulombs per square meter (C/m2 = A s /m2)
 Magnetic field intensity  H 
units = amps per meter (A/m)
 Magnetic flux density  B 
units = teslas = webers per square meter (T =
Wb/ m2 = kg/A/s3) Lecture 2
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 Introduction to Electromagnetic
Fields
 Universal constants in electromagnetics:
 Velocity of an electromagnetic wave (e.g.,
light) in free space (perfect vacuum)
c  3 10 m/s
8

 Permeability of free space

 0  4  10 7 H/m
 Permittivity of free space:
 0  8.854 10 12 F/m
 Intrinsic impedance of free space:
 0  120 
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 Introduction to Electromagnetic
Fields
 Relationships involving the universal
constants:
1 0
c 0 
 0 0 0

In free space:
B  0 H

D  0 E
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Introduction to Electromagnetic
Fields
Obtained
sources
• by assumption
Ji, Ki • from solution to IE

Solution to
fields Maxwell’s equations
E, H
Observable
quantities

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 Maxwell’s Equations
 Maxwell’s equations in integral form are the
fundamental postulates of classical electromagnetics -
all classical electromagnetic phenomena are
explained by these equations.
 Electromagnetic phenomena include electrostatics,
magnetostatics, electromagnetostatics and
electromagnetic wave propagation.
 The differential equations and boundary conditions
that we use to formulate and solve EM problems are
all derived from Maxwell’s equations in integral
form.
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 Maxwell’s Equations
 Various equivalence principles consistent
with Maxwell’s equations allow us to
replace more complicated electric current
and charge distributions with equivalent
magnetic sources.
 These equivalent magnetic sources can be
treated by a generalization of Maxwell’s
equations.
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Maxwell’s Equations in Integral Form (Generalized to
Include Equivalent Magnetic Sources)

d
C E  d l   dt S B  d S  S K c  d S  S K i  d S
d
C H  d l  dt S D  d S  S J c  d S  S J i  d S
 DdS   q
S
V
ev dv
Adding the fictitious magnetic source
terms is equivalent to living in a

 BdS   q
S
V
mv dv universe where magnetic monopoles
(charges) exist.

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Continuity Equation in Integral Form (Generalized
to Include Equivalent Magnetic Sources)

 • The continuity
S J  d s   
t V
q ev dv equations are
implicit in
 Maxwell’s
S K  d s   
t V
q mv dv equations.

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Contour, Surface and Volume
Conventions
• open surface S bounded by
S C closed contour C
• dS in direction given by
RH rule
dS
S
• volume V bounded by
closed surface S
V • dS in direction outward
dS from V

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 Electric Current and Charge
Densities
 Jc = (electric) conduction current density
(A/m2)
 Ji = (electric) impressed current density
(A/m2)
 qev = (electric) charge density (C/m3)

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 Magnetic Current and Charge
Densities
 Kc = magnetic conduction current density
(V/m2)
 Ki = magnetic impressed current density
(V/m2)
 qmv = magnetic charge density (Wb/m3)

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 Maxwell’s Equations - Sources
and Responses
 Sources of EM field:
 Ki, Ji, qev, qmv

 Responses to EM field:
 E, H, D, B, Jc, Kc

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Maxwell’s Equations in Differential Form (Generalized to
Include Equivalent Magnetic Sources)

B
 E    Kc  Ki
t
D
 H   Jc  Ji
t
  D  qev
  B  qmv
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Continuity Equation in Differential Form (Generalized to
Include Equivalent Magnetic Sources)

qev • The continuity

 J   equations are
t implicit in
qmv Maxwell’s
K   equations.
t

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 Electromagnetic Boundary
Conditions

n̂
Region 1

Region 2

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Electromagnetic Boundary
Conditions
n   E1  E 2    K S


nH1  H 2  J S


n   D1  D 2   qes


n   B1  B 2   qms

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 Surface Current and Charge
Densities
 Can be either sources of or responses to
EM field.
 Units:
 Ks - V/m
 Js - A/m

 qes - C/m2

 qms - W/m2
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 Electromagnetic Fields in
Materials
 In time-varying electromagnetics, we consider E and H
to be the “primary” responses, and attempt to write the
“secondary” responses D, B, Jc, and Kc in terms of E
and H.
 The relationships between the “primary” and
“secondary” responses depends on the medium in which
the field exists.
 The relationships between the “primary” and
“secondary” responses are called constitutive
relationships.

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 Electromagnetic Fields in
Materials
 Most general constitutive relationships:

D  D( E , H )
B  B( E , H )
J c  J c (E, H )
K c  K c (E, H )
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 Electromagnetic Fields in
Materials
 In free space, we have:
D  0 E
B  0 H
Jc  0
Kc  0
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 Electromagnetic Fields in
Materials
 In a simple medium, we have:
D E • linear (independent of field
strength)
B  H • isotropic (independent of position
within the medium)
• homogeneous (independent of
Jc  E direction)
• time-invariant (independent of
Kc m H time)
• non-dispersive (independent of
frequency)
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Electromagnetic Fields in Materials

  = permittivity = r0 (F/m)

  = permeability = r0 (H/m)
  = electric conductivity = r0 (S/m)
 m = magnetic conductivity = r0 (/m)

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 Phasor Representation of a
Time-Harmonic Field
 A phasor is a complex number
representing the amplitude and phase of a
sinusoid of known frequency.
phasor

A cos t     Ae j

time domain frequency domain

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 Phasor Representation of a
Time-Harmonic Field
 Phasors are an extremely important concept in the
study of classical electromagnetics, circuit theory,
and communications systems.
 Maxwell’s equations in simple media, circuits
comprising linear devices, and many components of
communications systems can all be represented as
linear time-invariant (LTI) systems. (Formal
definition of these later in the course …)
 The eigenfunctions of any LTI system are the
complex exponentials of the form:
j t
e
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 Phasor Representation of a
Time-Harmonic Field

e j t
LTI H  j  e j t

 If the input to an LTI

system is a sinusoid of A complex constant (for fixed
frequency , then the ); as a function of  gives the
output is also a sinusoid frequency response of the LTI
of frequency  (with system.
different amplitude and
phase).
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 Phasor Representation of a
Time-Harmonic Field
 The amplitude and phase of a sinusoidal
function can also depend on position, and the
sinusoid can also be a vector function:

aˆ A A(r ) cos t   (r )   aˆ A A(r ) e j ( r )

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 Phasor Representation of a
Time-Harmonic Field
 Given the phasor (frequency-domain)
representation of a time-harmonic vector field,
the time-domain representation of the vector
field is obtained using the recipe:


E  r , t   Re E  r  e jt


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 Phasor Representation of a
Time-Harmonic Field
 Phasors can be used provided all of the media
in the problem are linear  no frequency
conversion.
 When phasors are used, integro-differential
operators in time become algebraic operations
in frequency, e.g.:
 E r, t 
 j E  r 
t
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 Time-Harmonic Maxwell’s
Equations
 If the sources are time-harmonic (sinusoidal), and
all media are linear, then the electromagnetic
fields are sinusoids of the same frequency as the
sources.
 In this case, we can simplify matters by using
Maxwell’s equations in the frequency-domain.
 Maxwell’s equations in the frequency-domain are
relationships between the phasor representations
of the fields.

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Maxwell’s Equations in Differential
Form for Time-Harmonic Fields

  E   j B  K c  K i
  H  j D  J c  J i
  D  qev
  B  qmv

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Maxwell’s Equations in Differential Form for
Time-Harmonic Fields in Simple Medium

  E   j   m  H  K i
  H   j    E  J i
qev
E 

qmv
H 

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 Electrostatics as a Special Case of
Electromagnetics

Fundamental laws of Maxwell’s

classical equations
electromagnetics

Special Electro- Magneto- Electro- Geometric

cases statics statics magnetic Optics
waves

Statics: 0 Transmission
t
Line
Theory
Input from Circuit
other Theory Kirchoff’s
disciplines d  
Laws

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 Electrostatics
 Electrostatics is the branch of
electromagnetics dealing with the
effects of electric charges at rest.
 The fundamental law of electrostatics
is Coulomb’s law.

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 Electric Charge
 Electrical phenomena caused by friction are
part of our everyday lives, and can be
understood in terms of electrical charge.
 The effects of electrical charge can be
observed in the attraction/repulsion of various
objects when “charged.”
 Charge comes in two varieties called
“positive” and “negative.”

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 Electric Charge
 Objects carrying a net positive charge attract
those carrying a net negative charge and repel
those carrying a net positive charge.
 Objects carrying a net negative charge attract
those carrying a net positive charge and repel
those carrying a net negative charge.
 On an atomic scale, electrons are negatively
charged and nuclei are positively charged.

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 Electric Charge
 Electric charge is inherently quantized such
that the charge on any object is an integer
multiple of the smallest unit of charge which is
the magnitude of the electron charge
e = 1.602  10-19 C.
 On the macroscopic level, we can assume that
charge is “continuous.”

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 Coulomb’s Law
 Coulomb’s law is the “law of action” between
charged bodies.
 Coulomb’s law gives the electric force between
two point charges in an otherwise empty
universe.
 A point charge is a charge that occupies a region
of space which is negligibly small compared to
the distance between the point charge and any
other object.
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 Coulomb’s Law
Q1
r 12 Q2 Unit vector in
direction of R12
F 12
Q1 Q2
Force due to Q1 F 12  aˆ R12
acting on Q2 4  0 r12
2

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 Coulomb’s Law
 The force on Q1 due to Q2 is equal in
magnitude but opposite in direction to the
force on Q2 due to Q1.

F 21   F 12

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 Electric Field
 Consider a point charge
Q placed at the origin of
a coordinate system in Qt
an otherwise empty r
universe.
 A test charge Qt brought Q
near Q experiences a
force: QQt
F Qt  aˆ r
4 0 r 2

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 Electric Field
 The existence of the force on Qt can be
attributed to an electric field produced by Q.
 The electric field produced by Q at a point in
space can be defined as the force per unit
charge acting on a test charge Qt placed at that
point.
F Qt
E  lim
Qt  0 Q
t

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 Electric Field
 The electric field describes the effect of a
stationary charge on other charges and is an
abstract “action-at-a-distance” concept, very
similar to the concept of a gravity field.
 The basic units of electric field are newtons
per coulomb.
 In practice, we usually use volts per meter.

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 Electric Field
 For a point charge at the origin, the electric
field at any point is given by

Q Qr
E  r   aˆ r 
4 0 r 2
4 0 r 3

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 Electric Field
 For a point charge located at a point P’
described by a position vector r 
the electric field at P is given by
P
QR
E r  
4 0 R 3 r R
where Q
R  r  r r
R  r  r O

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 Electric Field
 In electromagnetics, it is very popular to
describe the source in terms of primed
coordinates, and the observation point in
terms of unprimed coordinates.
 As we shall see, for continuous source
distributions we shall need to integrate
over the source coordinates.

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 Electric Field

 Using the principal of superposition, the

electric field at a point arising from
multiple point charges may be evaluated
as n
Qk R k
E r   
k 1 4 0 Rk
3

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 Continuous Distributions of
Charge
 Charge can occur as
 point charges (C)
 volume charges (C/m3)  most general
 surface charges (C/m2)

 line charges (C/m)

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 Continuous Distributions of
Charge
 Volume charge density

Qencl

r V’

Qencl
qev  r   lim
V 0 V 

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 Continuous Distributions of
Charge
 Electric field due to volume charge
density

r
dV’ r P
Qencl V’

qev  r  dv R
d E r  
4 0 R 3

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Electric Field Due to Volume
Charge Density

1 qev  r  R
E r    dv 
4 0 V  R 3

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 Continuous Distributions of
Charge
 Surface charge density

Qencl

r S’

Qencl
qes  r   lim
S 0 S 

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 Continuous Distributions of
Charge
 Electric field due to surface charge
density

r
dS’ r P
Qencl S’

qes  r  ds R
d E r  
4 0 R 3

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Electric Field Due to Surface
Charge Density

1 qes  r  R
E r   S  R 3 ds 
4 0

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 Continuous Distributions of
Charge
 Line charge density

r L’ Q
encl

Qencl
qel  r   lim
L0 L

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 Continuous Distributions of
Charge
 Electric field due to line charge density

r L’ Q
encl r P

qel  r  dl  R
d E r  
4 0 R 3
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Electric Field Due to Line
Charge Density

1 qel  r  R
E r   L R 3 dl 
4 0

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 Electrostatic Potential
 An electric field is a force field.
 If a body being acted on by a force is
moved from one point to another, then
work is done.
 The concept of scalar electric potential
provides a measure of the work done in
moving charged bodies in an
electrostatic field.
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 Electrostatic Potential
 The work done in moving a test charge from one
point to another in a region of electric field:

F
b
a
q dl
b b
Wa b    F  d l   q  E  d l
a a

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 Electrostatic Potential
 In evaluating line integrals, it is customary to take
the dl in the direction of increasing coordinate
value so that the manner in which the path of
integration is traversed is unambiguously
determined by the limits of integration.
b a
x
3 5 3
Wa b  q  E  aˆ x dx
5

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 Electrostatic Potential
 The electrostatic field is conservative:
 The value of the line integral depends
only on the end points and is independent
of the path taken.
 The value of the line integral around any
closed path is zero.

C

C
E  d l  0
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 Electrostatic Potential
 The work done per unit charge in moving a
test charge from point a to point b is the
electrostatic potential difference between
the two points:
b
Wa b
Vab    E  d l
q a

electrostatic potential difference

Units are volts.
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 Electrostatic Potential
 Since the electrostatic field is conservative
we can write
b P0 b
Vab    E  d l    E  d l   E  d l
a a P0

b  a 
  E  dl    E  dl 
 
P0  P0 
 V  b  V  a 
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 Electrostatic Potential
 Thus the electrostatic potential V is a
scalar field that is defined at every point
in space.
 In particular the value of the electrostatic
potential at any point P is given by
P
V r   E  dl
P0
reference point

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 Electrostatic Potential
 The reference point (P0) is where the potential
is zero (analogous to ground in a circuit).
 Often the reference is taken to be at infinity so
that the potential of a point in space is defined
as
P
V  r    E  d l


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 Electrostatic Potential and
Electric Field
 The work done in moving a point charge
from point a to point b can be written as

Wa b  Q Vab  QV  b   V  a 
b
 Q  E  d l
a

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 Electrostatic Potential and
Electric Field
 Along a short path of length l we have

W  QV  Q E  l
or
V   E  l
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 Electrostatic Potential and
Electric Field
 Along an incremental path of length dl
we have
dV   E  d l
 Recall from the definition of directional
derivative:
dV  V  d l

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 Electrostatic Potential and
Electric Field
 Thus:

E  V

the “del” or “nabla” operator

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