EE101A

2/19/14 Homework #6

Engineering Electromagnetics

Winter 2014

Due: Wednesday February 26 8:00 AM Hand in to the TA at beginning of class. No late homework is accepted (see grading policy posted on eeweb). If you cannot make it to class, you must slip the HW under my door before 7:50 AM, give it to a TA, or email me a copy before due time. 6e=6th edition, 5e = 5th edition Problem #1 (30 points) Power flow and dissipation in a conductor Consider a monochromatic electromagnetic wave with angular frequency normally incident upon a thick slab of conducting material with conductivity . Assume the material is a good conductor (/ ). (a) Show that the total power dissipated in the slab is equal to the power crossing the surface. To do this, consider that the Joule heating law gives us the amount of power delivered to a volume according to the Joule heating law: P (E J )dV .
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Furthermore, it is easiest if you use the phasor convention, where the time averaged 1 dissipated power in a given volume is: Pavg Re E J* dV . 2 V (b) What percentage of the total power delivered to the slab is dissipated within one skin depth distance from the surface? Problem #2 (20 points) Wave absorption in a phantom head.

To investigate the electromagnetic coupling of cellular telephone antennas and a human head, a phantom head a plastic container filled with a solution that approximately resembles the dielectric and conductive properties of a human head is used for measurements. In particular, solutions are made that have the complex permittivity equal to the corresponding average head tissue parameters at two frequency bands allocated for wireless communications in North America: (i) =44.80, /= 0.408 at f=835 MHz and (ii) =41.90, /= 0.293 at f=1.9 GHz. (a) Find the attenuation coefficient of a uniform plane wave propagating throughout the phantom solution and complex intrinsic impedance of the material at each of the two wireless communication frequencies. (b) If the rms electric field intensity of the wave at its entry into the solution is E0=50V/m, use Poyntings theorem in complex form to determine the time average power absorbed (lost to heat) in the first 1 cm of depth into the material per 1 cm2 of cross sectional area at each frequency. Problem #3 (10 points) Skin depth of seawater Find both the skin depth (s) and the depth at which the E-field amplitude of a radio wave decreases to 1/1000 of its value at the ocean surface, at each of the frequencies 1 kHz, 10 kHz,

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100 kHz, 1 MHz, 10 MHz. Take the parameters for seawater to be r=1, r=80, = 4 S/m. Explain why submarines use ULF (ultra-low-frequency) radio waves at 1 kHz to communicate? Problem #4 Problem #5 Problem #6 (10 points) (15 points) (15 points) Ulaby 7.26 (6e) or Ulaby 7.24 (5e) Ulaby 8.6 (5e) ,(6e) Ulaby 8.7 (5e) ,(6e)

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