ELECTROMAGNETISMSTUDYINFO,PROBLEMS,SOLUTIONS

1.ECE107WEBSITE:http://cem01.ucsd.edu/~vitaliy/courses/ece107/

Problem 1
You are given a parallel plate transmission line made of perfect electrically conducting plates of
width with the distance between the plates of 1 w cm = 0.25 d cm = . The space between the plates
is filled with vacuum. The transmission line is short-circuited at 0 z = . It is excited by a source of
frequency . 1.8GHz f =
a) Find parameters characterizing the transmission line, i.e.
0
', ', ', ', , , ,
p
R L G C Z u .
b) The voltage at is
1
3 z c = m
4
1
( ) 5
j
V z . e V

Give expressions describing the voltage and current in the transmission line in
the form of phasors and in the time domain representation.
Find the reflection coefficient at the point AA .
Find the reflection coefficient at the point BB .


A
B

Fig. 1
A
B
z
1
z 0 z =
Problem 2
Consider an infinitesimally thin ring with inner radius and outer radius that resides in the
1
r
2
r
x y plane and is centered at (Fig. 2(a)). The ring has a surface charge density 0 z =
0 s
s
r

= ,
where
2 2
r x y = + .

a) Find the electric field ( 0, 0, ) x y z = = E on the axis. z

Now suppose the ring is rotating counterclockwise (as viewed from above) about its center with a
constant angular velocity
0
(Fig. 2(b)).

b) Find the surface current distribution
s
J on the ring. (Hint:
s s
= J v , where is the linear
velocity).
v
c) Find the magnetic field ( 0, 0, ) x y z = = H on the axis generated by the surface current
density
z
s
J .



s

1
r
2
r
s

1
r
2
r
0

(a) (b)
Fig. 2


Here are some integrals you might find useful.
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( )
2
1
2 2 2 2 2
2 2
2 2
2 2
2 2
3/2
2 2 2 2 2
2
1
2 2
3/2
2 2 2 2
2 2
2 2
2 2
2 2
1 1
1
tan
ln( )
2
1
1 ln( )
2
tan
1
1
ln( )
x
x
dx C
dx x a x a x a x C
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a x
x
x dx a x C
dx C
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a a x a x
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dx x a C
x
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x
x
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+

+
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+

= +
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+

( )
2
2 2
3/2
2 2 2 2
ln( )
x
dx x a x C
a x a x
= + + +
+ +

Problem 3
Consider an interface between two dielectric half-spaces with material parameters
1 0
, and
2 0
, (Fig. 3(a)). A perpendicularly (TE) polarized plane wave with amplitude
0
E is incident
on this interface from medium 1 under an angle with respect to the normal to the interface.
a) Consider the case where 0 (oblique incidence) and
1 2
(different half-spaces)
Write expressions for the incident, reflected, and transmitted electric and magnetic
fields.
Write expressions for the incident, reflected, and transmitted power densities (Poynting
vectors) including the magnitude and direction.
What are the surface currents and charges
b) Consider the case where 0 = (normal incidence) and
1 2
(different half-spaces).
Give conditions for which the amplitude of the transmitted electric field is greater than
that of the incident electric field. Give conditions for which the amplitude of the
transmitted magnetic field is greater than that of the incident magnetic field.
For these cases, what are the ratios between the transmitted and incident power
densities (is it greater or smaller than unity)? What are the relations between the
incident, reflected and transmitted power densities?
c) Consider the case where 0 = (normal incidence),
1 2
= (identical half-spaces), but there
is an infinitesimally thin sheet inserted on the interface between the half-spaces (Fig. 3(b)).
Under an applied electric field, there is a surface current on the sheet that is given by

s s
= z J z E, where
s
is a given constant (of units
1
).
Find the reflection and transmission coefficients for this problem.
Hint: Note that the total field in the left half-space ( 0 z < ) is given by the sum of the
incident and reflected field (i.e. ; 0
i r
z = + < E E E ), whereas the total field in the right
half-space ( ) is given only by the transmitted field (i.e. 0 z > ; 0
t
z = > E E ).

x

(a) (b)
Fig. 3

1 0
,
2 0
,
i

z
1 0
,
1 0
,
s
J
x
z