From RC/RLC and transistor circuits to E/B fields, Maxwell, waves, transmission lines, waveguides and S-parameters.
This volume first treats energy-storage dynamics and analog circuits, then builds the RF/microwave bridge from field physics rather than from isolated formulas: electrostatics, magnetostatics, Maxwell equations, electromagnetic waves, distributed circuits, waveguides, two-port descriptions, S-parameters and measurement.
Courses are arranged as a reading sequence. Available material opens normally; planned entries remain visible so the intellectual structure is explicit before the library is complete.
Energy storage, differential equations, initial/final conditions, time constants, step response, first-order filters and measurement.
Second-order differential equations, damping, natural modes, resonance, Q, bandwidth, losses and transient/frequency-domain links.
Device I–V laws, bias point, piecewise models, rectifiers, clamps, limiters and the first nonlinear circuit approximations.
Device families and operating regions, bias stability, transconductance, input/output resistance and the transition from DC quantities to small-signal variables.
Common-emitter/source, followers, gain, loading, current mirrors and active-load design with worked device-level examples.
Differential gain, common-mode behaviour, ideal/non-ideal op-amps, loop gain, closed-loop design and stability intuition.
Poles/zeros, high-frequency transistor models, Miller multiplication, cascode isolation, bandwidth and electronic noise.
Coulomb’s law, electric field, potential, Gauss’s law, conductors, capacitance and electrostatic boundary conditions.
Lorentz force, Biot–Savart, Ampère’s law, vector potential, magnetic materials and inductive energy.
Faraday induction, displacement current, Maxwell’s equations in integral/differential form, continuity equation and Poynting energy flow.
Wave equation, plane waves, polarization, impedance of media, reflection/transmission and boundary conditions.
Telegrapher equations, characteristic impedance, propagation constant and the physical transition from lumped circuits to distributed waves.
Reflection coefficient, VSWR, input impedance along a line, quarter-wave transformations and Smith-chart reasoning.
TE/TM modes, cutoff, dispersion, rectangular waveguides, cavity resonators and physical mode interpretation.
Lumped two-port descriptions, port variables, reciprocity, cascading and when each matrix representation is useful.
Incident/reflected waves, reference impedance, S-matrix meaning, reciprocity/passivity and why S-parameters replace direct V/I descriptions at high frequency.
SOLT/TRL concepts, reference planes, cables/fixtures, Touchstone data and interpretation of measured S-parameters.
L/π/T networks, stubs, distributed matching, resonators, filters, losses and practical design constraints.
Feedback and negative-resistance oscillation, nonlinear mixing, frequency conversion, modulation and measurement-oriented RF blocks.