What this book is about: This book is intended to serve as a primary textbook for a one-semester first course in undergraduate engineering electromagnetics, including the following topics: electric and magnetic fields; electromagnetic properties of materials; electromagnetic waves; and devices that operate according to associated electromagnetic principles including resistors, capacitors, inductors, transformers, generators, and transmission lines.

This book employs the “transmission lines first” approach, in which transmission lines are introduced using a lumped-element equivalent circuit model for a differential length of transmission line, leading to one-dimensional wave equations for voltage and current.1 This is sufficient to address transmission line concepts including characteristic impedance, input impedance of terminated transmission lines, and impedance matching techniques. Attention then turns to electrostatics, magnetostatics, time-varying fields, and waves, in that order.

This book is intended for electrical engineering students in the third year of a bachelor of science degree program. It is assumed that readers are familiar with the fundamentals of electric circuits and linear systems, which are normally taught in the second year of the degree program. It is also assumed that readers have received training in basic engineering mathematics, including complex numbers, trigonometry, vectors, partial differential equations, and multivariate calculus. Review of the relevant principles is provided at various points in the text. In a few cases (e.g., phasors, vectors) this review consists of a separate stand-alone section.