6.007
Electromagnetic Energy: From Motors to Lasers
Spring 2011
Topics
- Introduction: iPhone components
- Energy and power
- Electrical vs. gas engine
- Energy in electrical systems
- Electrostatics (Gauss’s law and boundary conditions)
- Magnetostatics (magnetic fields and forces)
- Lab 1: DC motor, MATLAB, oscilloscope
- Forces in magnetostatics (actuators)
- Practical MQS systems (torroids, solenoids, magnets)
- Magnetic materials
- Faraday’s law (induced emf)
- Magnetic circuits and transformers
- Forces via energy conservation (energy method)
- Stored energy and magnetic actuators
- Energy conversion systems: rail guns
- Dielectrics and dipoles
- Practical dielectrics
- Limits of statics and quasistatics
- Lab 2: Shooting magnets
- Linear systems, complex numbers and phasors
- Electromagnetic waves (wave equation)
- Examples of uniform EM plane waves (Poynting vector)
- Generating EM waves: antennas
- Interaction of atoms and EM waves (Lorentz oscillator)
- Lossy EM waves
- Polarized light and polarizers
- Birefringence
- Liquid crystal display (LCD) technology
- Interference and diffraction
- Diffraction and holography
- Lab 3: Liquid crystal displays
- Reflection and transmission of EM waves
- EM reflection and transmission in layered media
- Optical resonators
- Refraction and Snell’s law
- Fresnel equations and EM power flow
- Waveguides (optical systems)
- Wavepackets
- Photon: quantum of energy
- Lab 4: Spectrometer
- Photon momentum and uncertainty
- Examples of Heisenberg uncertainty principle
- Schrodinger equation
- Particle in a box
- Reflection from a potential step
- Tunneling
- Lab 5: Quantum mechanical tunneling
- Tunneling applications (flash memory, STM)
- From atoms to molecules
- Semiconductors
- Light emitting diodes (LEDs)
- Photodetectors, solar cells
- Electron wavepackets and microscopic Ohm’s law
- Quantum superposition and optical transitions
- Lasers
- Lab 6: Extra credit lab
Readings
- French, Anthony, and Edwin Taylor. An Introduction to Quantum Physics . W. W. Norton, 1978. ISBN: 9780393091069.
- Shen, Liang, and Jin Au Kong. Applied Electromagnetism . 3rd ed. CL Engineering, 1995. ISBN: 9780534947224.
- Masters, Gilbert. Sections 1.6–1.8 in Renewable and Efficient Electric Power Systems . Wiley, 2004. ISBN: 9780471280606.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.