EE101A Engineering Electromagnetics Fall 2017

Homework #7 Solution

Problem #1 (20 points) Ulaby 2.3 (6e, 7e)

Fig. P3_1: Transmission line model

Problem #2 (30 points) Ulaby 2.19 (6e,7e)

Problem #3 (30 points) Wave absorption in a phantom head.

Solution:
+/'
$% & % && ' $0
(a) = 1+ 1 , =
' %& % & 12%33

89
i) = 23.4 , = 53.1 + 10.42 = 54.1611.1
:
89
ii) = 37.4 , = 56.4 + 8.1 = 578.9
:

(b)
M M
+ ON +UUN
i) F = = N = N cos 11.1\ = 90.6 / '
' P VW.+X

So `\aa = F 1 1'cd = 1101W 90.6 1 1'.'eWU.U+ = 3.4

ii) F = 86.8 / ' , `\aa = 4.4

Problem #4 (20 points) Skin depth of seawater

Solution: skin depth is given by:

1
a =

Since / , we use the good conductor approximation
= 1/a
The depth d at which E decreases to 1/1000 of the original value is:
1cd = 1/1000
= ln 1000
= ln 1000 /
The numbers are given as:

() () ()
1k 7.96 55
10k 2.52 17.4
100k 0.80 5.5
1M 0.25 1.7
10M 0.08 0.55

The reason for choosing the ULF for submarine communication is that higher frequency gives
smaller skin depth, and thus more attenuation for a given distance.