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THE INSTITUTION
OF ENGINEERS, SRI LANKA
IESL ENGINEERING
COURSE
PART II EXAMINATION
- DECEMBER 2013
207 - ELECTROMAGNETC
FIELDS AND NETWORKS

Instructions to the Candidates

This paper contains EIGHT (8) questions on SEVEN (7) pages
Answer ANY FIVE (5) questions with at least TWO (2) questions from each section.
Time allowed THREE (3) hours.
8.85x 10 -12F/m
4nx 10 -7 Him
3 x 108 m/s
9.1 x 10-31 kg
1.602 x 10-19 C

Permittivity of free space, EO

Permeability of free space, flo
Speed oflight in a vacuum, c
Mass of electron
Charge of electron

SECTION A
1.
(A)

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16mm

Fig 1.1
Fig 1.1 shows an experiment to show Coulomb's law. Here, an insulated, light,
charged sphere is brought close to another similarly charged sphere. The
second sphere is suspended at the end of a thread of length 080 m. The mass of
the suspended sphere is 050 g.
It is found that the suspended sphere is displaced to the left by a distance of 16
mm as shown.
(1) Make a sketch showing all uf the forces act iug

Ull

the suspended

sphere.
(2 Marks)
(2) Calculate the electrostatic force acting on the suspended sphere.
(2 Marks)

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(B)
Two charges of +8.0 x 10-9 C and +4.0 x 10-9 C are held a distance of 0.20 m
apart.
(1) Calculate the magnitude and direction of the electric field strength at
the midpoint between the charges.
(5 Marks)
(2) Calculate the distance from the 8.0 x 10-9 C charge at which the
electric field strength is zero.
(5 Marks)
(3) The 4.0 x 10-9 C charge has a mass of 5.0 x 10-4 kg.
Calculate the magnitude of the electrostatic force acting on this charge
(2 Marks)
(C)
An electron is initially at rest. It is then accelerated
difference of 75 x 105 V.

through a potential

(1) Calculate the speed reached by the electron.

(3 Marks)
(2) Why is it not possible for the electron to have this speed?
(1 Mark)
2.
(A)

Fig 2.1

Determine the direction and magnitude of the net magnetic field at point
A and B indicated in Fig 2.1 due to the two wires shown. Wire 1 carries
a current II = 650 mA and 12 = 475 mA. Point A is a distance rl = 1.20 m
from wire 1 and point B is r2 = 2.20 m away.
(14 Marks)

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(B)

it

lCONDUCTOR

Fig 2.2

A conductor suspended by two flexible wires as shown in the figure 2.2 has a
mass per unit length of 0.040 kg/m.
(1) What is the current needed in the conductor for the tension in the
supporting wires to be zero when the magnetic field is 3.60 T into the
page?
(4 Marks)
(2) What is the required direction for the current?
(2 Marks)

3.
(A)
A uniform plane wave is incident from air onto glass at an angle 30 from the
normal. Determine the fraction of incident power that is reflected and transmitted
for
(l) Parallel Polarization
(7 Marks)
(2) Perpendicular Polarization
(7 Marks)

Glass has refractive index n2 = 1.45

(B)
Light is incident from air to glass at Brewster's
transmitted angles

angle. Determine the incident and

(6 Marks)

4.
(A)
A standard rectangular waveguide is to be designed for the X-band (8 GHz - 12.4
GHz) radar application. The dimensions are a = 2.29 ern and b = 1.02 em. If only
the lowest mode TEIO mode is to propagate inside the waveguide and that the
operating frequency be at least 25% above the cutoff frequency of the TE
10 mode but no higher than 95% of the next higher cutoff frequency, what is the
allowable operating- frequency range of this waveguide?
(10 Marks)
(B)
A TE wave propagating in a dielectric-filled

= 5 em and b = 3 em.

has dimensions a
If the x-component

Ex = -36

waveguide of unknown permittivity

of the electric field is given by

cos( 40rrx) sin (1 0Orry) . sin(2.4rr x 1010t - 52.9rrz)

V [rti

Determine
(1) The mode number (values of m and n)
(2 Marks)
(2)

e; of the material in the guide

(4 Marks)

(3) The cutoff frequency

(4 Marks)

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SECTIONB

5.
(A)
Synthesize the design in (5.1) in first Foster form

ZD(S)

(s + 2)(s +4)
(s + l)(s + 3) - - - -(5.1)
(10 Marks)

(B)
Synthesize the design (5.2) in first Foster form
(s + l)(s + 3)
~ (s)
D
s(s + 2)

---

-(5.2)
(10 Marks)

6.
Filter specifications are given by:
Pass band gain between 1 and 0.794 (-ldB) for 0 <co< 10
Stop band gain which does not exceed 0.01 ( - 20dB) for co> 30
Design a Butterworth filter by answering the following questions:
(A)

State the pass band frequency ( cop) and the stop band frequency ( cos).

(B)

Sketch the filter specification

(C)

What is the filter order?

(D)

What is the cut off frequency?

(E)

What is the transfer function?

(3 Marks)
(4 Marks)
(3 Marks)
(6 Marks)
(4 Marks)

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7.
(A)

5Q

JQ

u(t)

IF
3

1 l+
IH ~

Vo(t)

Fig 7.1
Use Laplace Transforms to fmd vo(t) in Fig 7.1 assuming zero initial conditions.
(12 Marks)
(B)

2Q

1F

Fig 7.2
Use Fourier Transforms to find vo(t) in Fig 7.2 for Vj(t)=2e-3Iu(t)
(8 Marks)

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8.
(A)

L
Node 1

vet)

iL(t)

ic(r)

iR(t)

Fig 8-1
Represent the electrical network shown in Fig 8.1 in state space. The output
should be iR(t). Select suitable state variables.
(10 Marks)

(B)
A network is represented by the following Transfer function (8.1):
C(s)
R(s)

24

= s3 + 9 S2 + 26s + 24 -

- - -(8.1)

(1) Find the State equation and writ.e it in matrix form

(6 Marks)
(2) Find the output equation and write it in matrix form
(4 Marks)

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