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Help Sessions for Apr. 6–10 (4/5/2026)
I plan to be available at least at the following times this week.
- Monday, 2:30–3:45 pm (BRKI 368)
- Monday 5:00–5:45 pm (BRKI 368)
- Monday 10:00–10:45 pm (Zoom)
- Wednesday, 3:00–3:45 pm (BRKI 368)
- Wednesday, 5:00–5:45 pm (BRKI 368)
- Wednesday 10:00–10:45 pm (Zoom)
- Thursday, 4:00–4:45 pm (BRKI 368)
- Friday, 2:00–3:45 pm (BRKI 368)
I am usually available for short consultations on
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 4:50 pm in BRKI 264 or in
my office.
Guidelines and additional information:
- Please contact me if you have a conflict with these times and would like
to schedule a meeting at a different time.
- The Zoom link is available at the course Moodle site.
- If I am helping another student when you drop by, you may usually join
in the conversation.
- If I have been helping you for a relatively long time,
I might pause our conversation to help other students
who are waiting for assistance.
- For in-person sessions, if I have finished helping you, please move out
to the hall or somewhere else so that the chairs in my office are clear
for newly arriving students.
- As a courtesy during Zoom sessions, please use your camera.
Reading Assignments for Apr. 6–10 (4/4/2026)
- M: Sections 6-1 and 6-2 and the supplemental reading
"The Small Loop Antenna"
- W: Supplemental reading "The Small Loop Antenna"
- R: Sections 7-0 through 7-2
- F: Sections 7-2 and 7-3 and the supplemental reading
"Proof of Mutual Orthogonality of the Electric and Magnetic Fields
and Direction of Propagation for Plane Waves"
Section 7-0 is the introduction to Chapter 7.
The first supplemental reading provides information on calculating the
radiation resistance, loss resistance, and input inductance of
electrically small loop antennas.
Although the text is somewhat advanced, most of it should be accessible
to you. We will not cover all of the material in the supplemental reading
in class.
Poynting Streamline Paper (4/4/2026)
A copy of a paper that appeared in the Feb. 2024 issue of IEEE Antennas
& Propagation Magazine that illustrates how the Poynting vector of an
incoming EM wave is altered by the presence of an antenna is now
available at the course Moodle site in the Supplemental Readings section.
The paper provides visually oriented representations of the concept of
effective aperture. It was discussed in class on Friday,
April 3, but it is not required reading.
Review Sheet for Exam #3 (3/31/2026)
The review sheet for Exam #3 is now available on the Exams page.
Help Sessions for Mar. 30–Apr. 3 (3/31/2026)
I plan to be available at least at the following times this week.
- Monday, 2:30–3:45 pm (BRKI 368)
- Monday 5:00–5:45 pm (BRKI 368)
- Monday 9:00–10:00 pm (Zoom)
- Wednesday, 2:00–3:45 pm (BRKI 368)
- Wednesday, 5:00–5:45 pm (BRKI 368)
- Wednesday 10:00–10:45 pm (Zoom)
- Friday, 2:00–3:45 pm (BRKI 368)
I am usually available for short consultations on
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 4:50 pm in BRKI 264 or in
my office.
Guidelines and additional information:
- Please contact me if you have a conflict with these times and would like
to schedule a meeting at a different time.
- The Zoom link is available at the course Moodle site.
- If I am helping another student when you drop by, you may usually join
in the conversation.
- If I have been helping you for a relatively long time,
I might pause our conversation to help other students
who are waiting for assistance.
- For in-person sessions, if I have finished helping you, please move out
to the hall or somewhere else so that the chairs in my office are clear
for newly arriving students.
- As a courtesy during Zoom sessions, please use your camera.
HW #6 Solutions (3/30/2026)
The solutions to HW #6 are now available at the course Moodle
site.
Review Session for Exam #3 - UPDATE (3/30/2026)
An optional review session for Exam #3 will be offered at 5:00 pm
on Tuesday, March 31
in Academic East 114.
Breakiron 165 is not available at that time.
Please contact me if you cannot attend the review session but would like
to meet with me at some other time before the exam.
Selected Answers to HW #6 (3/29/2026)
The answers to selected graded problems in HW #6 are now available
on the Homework Assignments page.
HW #6 Revised (3/29/2026)
Graded Prob. 4 in HW #6 will be deferred to
HW #7.
The lectures have not progressed far enough to fully prepare you to
solve that problem.
The content represented by Graded Prob. 4 will not be on
Exam #3.
A revised version of the HW #6 assignment has been posted to the
Homework Assignments page.
Reading Assignments for Mar. 30–Apr. 3 (3/28/2026)
- M: Section 9-5 and the supplemental readings
"Loss Resistance Calculations for Arbitrary Linear Current
Distributions" and "Derivation of the Antenna Effective Aperture
Formula"
- W: Section 9-6 and the supplemental reading
"Derivation of the Antenna Effective Aperture Formula"
- R: [Exam #3]
- F: Sections 6-1 and 6-2 and the supplemental reading
"The Small Loop Antenna"
Help Sessions for Monday, Mar. 30 (3/28/2026)
I plan to be available at least at the following times on Monday this
week. The schedule for the rest of the week will be posted Monday.
- Monday, 2:30–3:45 pm (BRKI 368)
- Monday 5:00–5:45 pm (BRKI 368)
- Monday 9:00–10:00 pm (Zoom)
HW #5 Solutions (3/28/2026)
The solutions to HW #5 are now available at the course
Moodle site.
HW #6 (3/25/2026)
The assignment for HW #6 is now available.
It is due via Moodle at 8:00 pm on Monday, March 30.
Help Sessions for Mar. 22–27 - UPDATE (3/23/2026)
I plan to be available at least at the following times this week.
- Sunday 10:00–10:45 pm (Zoom)
- * Monday, 2:00–3:45 pm (BRKI 368)
- Monday 5:00–5:30 pm (BRKI 368)
- Monday 9:00–10:00 pm (Zoom)
- * Wednesday, 2:00–3:45 pm (BRKI 368)
- Wednesday, 5:00–5:45 pm (BRKI 368)
- Wednesday 10:00–10:45 pm - moved from Thursday (Zoom)
- Thursday 4:00–5:00 pm (BRKI 368)
- Friday, 2:30–3:45 pm (BRKI 368)
The help sessions marked with an asterisk (*) have one or more advising
meetings scheduled during them. Most meetings will be 15 minutes long.
I am usually available for short consultations on
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 4:50 pm in BRKI 264 or in
my office.
Guidelines and additional information:
- Please contact me if you have a conflict with these times and would like
to schedule a meeting at a different time.
- The Zoom link is available at the course Moodle site.
- If I am helping another student when you drop by, you may usually join
in the conversation.
- If I have been helping you for a relatively long time,
I might pause our conversation to help other students
who are waiting for assistance.
- For in-person sessions, if I have finished helping you, please move out
to the hall or somewhere else so that the chairs in my office are clear
for newly arriving students.
- As a courtesy during Zoom sessions, please use your camera.
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