UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONIC AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

EE311 EE Principles 3 Dr WH Siew/Prof I Glesk

Tutorial Block 3-4: Wave propagation (unbounded lossless-medium)


Q1
Write general expressions for electric and magnetic fields of a 1-GHz sinusoidal plane
wave travelling in the +y direction in a lossless nonmagnetic medium with relative
permittivity c
r
= 9. The electric field is polarized along the x-direction, its peak value
is 3V/m, and its intensity is 2 V/m at t = 0 and y = 2 cm.

Ans:
m A y t t y
m V y t t y
o
o
/ ) 19 . 120 20 10 2 cos(
40
3
z - ) , ( H
/ ) 19 . 120 20 10 2 cos( 3 x ) , ( E
9
9
+ =
+ =
.
.
t t
t
t t




Q2
E = [
.
y 3 sin (2t x 10
7
t 0.4t x) +
.
z 4 cos (2t x 10
7
t 0.4t x)]. Determine:

a) The wavelength
b) c
r

c) H

Ans: a) 5m
b) 36
c) m A x t x t / ) 4 . 0 10 2 cos(
20
4
y ) 4 . 0 10 2 sin(
20
3
z H
7 7
t t
t
t t
t
=
. .



Q3
A wave radiated by a source in air is incident upon a soil surface, whereupon a part of
the wave is transmitted into the soil medium. If the wavelength of the wave is 30cm in
air and 15cm in the soil medium, what is the soils relative permittivity? Assume the
soil to be low-loss medium.
Ans: 4




Q4
The electric field of a plane wave propagating in a lossless, non-magnetic dielectric
material with c
r
= 2.56 is given by

m / V ) kz t 10 8 cos( 20
9
=
.
t y E

Determine:
a) f, u
p
, , k, and q, and
b) the magnetic field H


Ans: a) 4 GHz
1.875x10
8
m/s
4.69 cm
134.04 rad/m
235.62

b) m A z t / ) 04 . 134 10 8 cos( 10 49 . 8
9 2
=

.
t x H