The comprehensive study of electric, magnetic and combined fields is nothing but electromagnetic engineering. Along with electronics, electromagnetics plays an important role in other branches. The book is structured to cover the key aspects of the course Electromagnetic Field Theory for undergraduate students.
The knowledge of vector analysis is the base of electromagnetic engineering. Hence book starts with the discussion of vector analysis. Then it introduces the basic concepts of electrostatics such as Coulomb's law, electric field intensity due to various charge distributions, electric flux, electric flux density, Gauss's law, divergence and divergence theorem. The book continues to explain the concept of elementary work done, conservative property, electric potential and potential difference and the energy in the electrostatic fields. The detailed discussion of current density, continuity equation, boundary conditions and various types of capacitors is also included in the book. The book provides the discussion of Poisson's and Laplace's equations and their use in variety of practical applications.
The chapter on magnetostatics incorporates the explanation of Biot-Savart's law, Ampere's circuital law and its applications, concept of curl, Stoke's theorem, scalar and vector magnetic potentials. The book also includes the concept of force on a moving charge, force on differential current element and magnetic boundary conditions.
The book covers all the details of Faraday's laws, time varying fields, Maxwell's equations and Poynting theorem. Finally, the book provides the detailed study of uniform plane waves including their propagation in free space, perfect dielectrics, lossy dielectrics and good conductors.
The book uses plain, lucid language to explain each topic. The book provides the logical method of explaining the various complicated topics and stepwise methods to make the understanding easy. The variety of solved examples is the feature of this book which helps to inculcate the knowledge of the electromagnetics in the students. Each chapter is well supported with necessary illustrations and self-explanatory diagrams. The book explains the philosophy of the subject which makes the understanding of the concepts very clear and makes the subject more interesting.
Prof. Uday A. Bakshi graduated in Electrical Engineering with 4th rank from the University of Pune in 1989. He completed his M.E. (Controls) from the University of Pune.
After graduation, he started his career as Visiting Lecturer in Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering, Pune, and PVG's College of Engineering and Technology, Pune. Then he continued as a lecturer at Vishwakarma Institute of Technology (VIT), Pune.
While working in VIT, he introduced new concepts in teaching methods. He also introduced the concept of Quality Circle at the educational institute level. The Quality Circle, started by him at VIT, got recognition at the national level. While working in VIT, he conducted training programs in various industries like Bajaj Auto, Bharat Electronics, Cummins, etc. He developed many small models and projects in Electrical Department of VIT to teach engineering subjects concepts. At the same time, he published his first book on Feedback Control Systems which got an overwhelming response all over India.
After leaving VIT, he was Joint Director of Noble Institute of Computer Training, Pune. Due to his dedicated teaching and endless efforts, many students from this institute got admission to ranked U.S. universities with an assistantship.
After that, he started his coaching classes to impart thorough knowledge to the engineering students of various engineering subjects. Professor Bakshi simultaneously published many engineering books. The books written by him are recommended by multiple Indian and foreign universities in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. He has a total of 30 years of teaching and writing experience in the field of engineering.
His primary interest is to indoctrinate engineering subjects' psychology and make the topics easy to understand and enjoyable through his books to the engineering students.