Syafruddin Hasan

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Chapter 1
Introduction

SEM 5
2020/2021

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1-1 Electrostatic vs Magnetostatic
 Electrostatic
• Electrostatic fields arise
from a potential difference
or voltage gradient
• Their strength is measured
in Volts per meter (V/m)
• An electrostatic field can
be present anywhere as
long as there was a
potential difference.
• Most building materials
shield electric fields to
some extent.
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 Magnetostatic
 Magnetostatic fields arise
from the movement of
charge carriers, that is, from
the flow of current.
 Their strength is measured
in amperes per meter (A/m).
 Magnetostatic fields exist as
soon as a current flows.
 Magnetic fields are not
attenuated by most
materials.
1-2 Timeline for Electromagnetics in the
Classical Era
• 1785 Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (French)
demonstrates that the electrical force between charges is
proportional to the inverse of the square of the distance
between them.
• 1835 Carl Friedrich Gauss (German) formulates
Gauss’s law relating the electric flux flowing through an
enclosed surface to the enclosed electric charge.
• 1873 James Clerk Maxwell (Scottish) publishes his
“Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism” in which he unites
the discoveries of Coulomb, Oersted, Ampere, Faraday and
others into four elegantly constructed mathematical
equations, now known as Maxwell’s Equations.

SEM II 2007/2008
 References
a) William H. Hayt, John A Buck, "Engineering
Electromagnetics”, 8th Edition, McGraw Hill, 2012
b) Stuart M.Wentworth, “Fundamental of
Electromagnetics with Engineering Applications”,
Wiley International Edition, 1990
c) F.T.Ulaby,”Electromagnetics for Engineers”, Pearson
Prentice Hall, 2008
d) U.A.Bakhsi, “Electromagnetic Field Theory”.
PLEASE…

• Study Smart not HARD!

• Pay attention in class!

• Please ask if you have any

query!

• Refresh what you have

learned in class at home!

• Jot down, remember and

familiarize with all the formulas.
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