EE5831 Homework

Issued: 17/10/2018 Wednesday, Due: 13/11/2018 Tuesday.

Q1.
The E-field of a uniform plane wave propagating in a dielectric nonmagnetic (   0 )
medium is given by

Ez , t   xˆ 2 cos 108 t  z / 3 (V/m) 
(i) Determine the frequency and wavelength of the wave.
(ii) What is the dielectric constant of the medium?
(iii) Find an expression for the corresponding instantaneous H-field.

Q2.
Show that the linearly polarized wave E   x  y  E0 eikz can be decomposed into a linear
superposition of a left hand circularly polarized (LHCP) and a right hand circularly polarized
(RHCP) wave.

Q3.
An electromagnetic wave with the following electric field
1  k   k 
E (t )  ( yˆ  zˆ ) cos  ( y  z )  t   xˆ sin  ( y  z )  t 
2  2   2 
is propagating in free space.

(a) What is the wave vector k ?

(b) Write down the phasor of the electric field E .
(c) Write down the instantaneous magnetic field H (t ) .
(d) Specify the type of polarization of the wave.

Q4.
Two Hertzian dipole antennas of length l are located at the origin with current densities:
 l ( x) ( y ) ( z )
J 1  zI and  l ( x) ( y ) ( z )
J 2  xI
1 2

as shown in Fig. Q4. The radiation field at observation point ( r ,  ,  ) ( kr  1 , where k is

the wavenumber) due to the current density J 1 is given by
i0 I1l ikr
E1   e sin  ,
4 r
where  is the angular frequency, 0 is the permeability of free space.
 z

r

J1
J2
y


x
Fig.Q4
Note that the observation point is in the far field ( kr  1 ) in all of the following questions.

For parts (a) and (b), we assume I 2  0.

(a). What is the polarization of the wave if the observation point is in the x axis? What is the
 
polarization of the wave if the observation is in the direction   and   ?
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(b). What is the magnetic field at an arbitrary observation point ( r ,  ,  )?

In parts (c) and (d), the current I 2 is not equal to zero.

(c). Find the total electric field at the observation point in the positive x axis.
 
(d). If the polarization of the wave at the observation direction   and   is right-
2 4
hand circular polarization, find the ratio of I1 / I 2 .

Q5.
For two-dimensional problems, calculate the elements in the dyadic Green’s function
1   i  
G (r, r )  ( I  ) g (r, r ) in Cartesian coordinate system, where g (r , r )  H 0(1) (k r  r  ) . Note
k2 4

that since there is no variation with respect to z, i.e.,  0 , the dyadic Green’s function can
z
be written as a 2 x 2 matrix. Hint: Applying chain rule for derivative in
  2  2 
  2 
 x xy   i (1)
G (r, r )   I  2
1
 H 0 (k ( x  x ) 2  ( y  y ) 2 ) ,
 k  2  2 
4
  
  yx y 2  
and using the recurrence formulas of the Hankel function
 d (1) m (1)
H m ( )  H (1)
m 1 ( )  H ( )
d  m .
m (1)
m 1 ( ) 
  H (1) H m ( )


Q6.
A uniform plane wave in air with Ei ( z )  xˆ 10 ei 6 z is incident normally on an interface at
z  0 with a medium having a dielectric constant of 2.56 and relative permeability r  1 .
Find the following:
(i) Instantaneous expressions for Er ( z , t ) , H r ( z , t ) , Et ( z , t ) and H t ( z , t ) .
(ii) The expression for the time-average Poynting vectors in air S av1 and in the dielectric
medium S av2 .

Q7.
Fig. Q7 depicts a beaker containing a block of glass on the bottom and water over it. The
glass block contains a small air bubble at an unknown depth below the water surface. When
viewed from above at an angle of 60o, the air bubble appears at a depth of 6.81 cm. What is
the true depth of the air bubble?

Fig. Q7 Apparent position of the air bubble

Q8.
Consider a plane wave incident from the medium 1  1 , 1  onto the medium 2   2 ,  2  . For
an oblique incidence, the reflection coefficients for the S and P waves are generally different
from each other. Consider a special case where the reflection coefficient is equal to zero.
When it occurs, the incidence angle is defined as the Brewster angle  B .
(1) What are the values of Brewster angle  B for the S and P waves, respectively?
(2) Repeat part (1) for nonmagnetic materials, 1  2  0 .
Q9.
Consider a two-dimensional TM scattering problem. The incident electric field is polarized in
the z-direction, which is parallel with a PEC cylinder that has a circular cross section. The
incident wave is a plane wave propagating along the positive x-axis. The wavelength is 1
meter, and the radius of the cylinder is 0.15 meters. Let the center of the cylinder to be origin.
30 receivers are placed uniformly on a circle of 5 meters, concentrically with the cylinder.

Implementing the MoM in numerical software, such as Matlab, to calculate the magnitude
and phase of scattered field received at the 30 receivers.

Please provide your source code that is used to generate the results.