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This document contains an assignment for a course on electrodynamics with multiple questions covering various topics: 1. It asks to describe different types of insulation, derive an expression for electric potential, calculate divergence of an electric field, and find potentials given line charges. 2. It contains questions on finding electric fields and surface charge densities given conductor voltages in different coordinate systems. 3. Questions involve finding parameters of uniform plane waves propagating in different media, sketching waves, and describing diffraction, scattering and transmission lines. 4. The lab section involves using MATLAB to plot equipotentials, potentials, electric fields, and solving diffusion equations related to electromagnetic waves.

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This document contains an assignment for a course on electrodynamics with multiple questions covering various topics: 1. It asks to describe different types of insulation, derive an expression for electric potential, calculate divergence of an electric field, and find potentials given line charges. 2. It contains questions on finding electric fields and surface charge densities given conductor voltages in different coordinate systems. 3. Questions involve finding parameters of uniform plane waves propagating in different media, sketching waves, and describing diffraction, scattering and transmission lines. 4. The lab section involves using MATLAB to plot equipotentials, potentials, electric fields, and solving diffusion equations related to electromagnetic waves.

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KENYATTA UNIVERSITY

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN EEE (4TH)


EEE 415: ELECTRODYNAMICS
ASSIGNMENT
QUESTION ONE
a) Briefly describe solid, liquid and gas insulation.
b) Show that the absolute potential at a point P1 is given by:
P1

V ( P1 ) E d L

c) A cube of volume a3 has its faces parallel to the Cartesian coordinate surfaces. It is
centered at P (3, -2,4). Given the field
C/m2. Calculate div
at P
3
D
D 2 x a x
d) Two uniform line charges, 8 nC/m each, are located at x = 1, z = 2, and at x = 1,
y = 2 in free space. If the potential at the origin is 100 V, find V at P(4, 1, 3):
e) Let a point charge Q1 =25 nC be located at P1(4,2, 7) and a charge Q2 = 60 nC be
at P2(3, 4,2).
i. If =o find
at P3(1, 2, 3)
E
ii. At what point on the y axis is Ex = 0?
f) An S-band radar transmitting 3GHz radiates 200 KW. Determine the signal power
density at range 100 nautical miles if the effective area of the radar antenna is
9m2. With a 20m2 target at 300 nautical miles, calculate the power of the reflected
signal at the radar. Take 1 nautical mile (nm) = 1852m.
g) Define the following terms in relation to antennas.
i. Directivity
ii. Radiation pattern
iii.
Gain
QUESTION TWO
a) Two parallel conducting planes in free apace are at y=0 and y=0.02m, and the
zero voltage reference is at y=0.01m. If D=253ay nC/m2 between the conductors,
determine the conductor voltages.
b) In spherical coordinates, V=-25V on a conductor at r=2cm and V=150V at
r=35cm. The space between the conductors is a dielectric for which r=3.12. Find
the surface charge densities on the conductors.
c) In cylindrical coordinates, V=75V at r=5mm and V=0 at r=60mm. Find the
voltage at r=130mm if the potential depends only on r.
d) The voltage reference is at r=15mm in spherical coordinates and the voltage is V0
at r=200mm. Given E=-334.7ar V/m at r=110mm, find V0. The potential is a
function of r only.
e) Region l, where r1=5, is on the side of the plane 6x+4y+3z=12 that includes the
origin. In region 2, r2=3. Given

H 1=

1
( 3 ax 0.5 a y )
0

find Bz and 2.
f) In spherical coordinates, region 1 is r<a, region 2 is a<r<b and region 3 is r>b.
Regions 1 and 3 are free space, while r2=500. Given B1=0.20ar T, find H in each
region. Also sketch the fields at t=0 along the z axis, assuming that Dm>0, >0.
QUESTION THREE
a) In a homogeneous region where r=1 and r=50,
j ( t z )
j ( t z )
E=20 e
a x V/m
H=0 H m e
ay T
Find and Hm if the wavelength is 1.78m.
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b) Given E ( z , t )=10 sin(6 10 t z) a y V/m. In free space, sketch the wave at
t=0 and at time t1 when it has travelled /4 along the z axis. Find t1, and .
1
7
H ( z , t ) =1.33 10 cos ( 4 10 t z )a x A/m. Obtain an
c) In free space,
expression for E(z,t). Find and .
d) In a partially conducting medium, r=800, r=18.5 and =1S/m. Find , , and
the velocity u, for a frequency of 109 Hz. Determine H(z,t), given
z
E ( z , t )=50 e cos(t z)a y V/m
e) Briefly describe the following;
Diffraction and Scattering
Electromagnetic Compatibility
Transmission line analogue of wave propagation
f) Two homogeneous, linear, isotropic magnetic materials have an interface at x = 0.
At the interface, there is a surface current with a density JL=20uy A/m. The
relative permeability r1 = 2 and the magnetic field intensity in the region x < 0 is

H1 = 15ux +10 uy + 25uz A/m. The relative permeability r2 = 5 in the region x>0.
Find the magnetic field intensity in the region x > 0.

LAB
USE MATLAB IN THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
a) Two grounded semi-infinite metallic plates are placed on the x axis and the y axis
of a Cartesian coordinate system in order to form a 90 corner. A positive charge
40 is located at the point (a, a) where a is arbitrary. Using MATLAB, carefully

plot equipotential contours surrounding this charge and the expected electric field.
b) The two-dimensional potential distribution can be approximated with the
quadratic expression
Show that this function satisfies the Poissons equation. Plot the graphs of the
charge and the electric potential distributions.
c) In a conducting material, we may assume that the conduction current density is
much larger than the displacement current density. Show that Maxwell's equations
can be cast in the form of a diffusion equation in this material.
d) Solve the diffusion equation, derived in c) above, for the case of a magnetic flux
density B(z,t) near a plane vacuum-copper interface assuming the following
values for copper: =0=410-7m/H and =5.8107S/m. Plot the solution for the
spatial profile of the magnetic field, assuming a 60 Hz time harmonic
electromagnetic signal is applied.
e) A 10 V/m plane wave whose frequency is 300 MHz propagates in the (+z)
direction in an infinite medium. The electric field is polarized in the u x direction.
The parameters of the medium are r=9, r=1, and =10 S/m.
Write a complete time-domain expression for the electric field.
f) For the medium described in e) above, plot the phase velocity and the group
velocity as a function of frequency in the frequency range 30 < f < 3000MHz.
g) Plot the spatial variation of the electric field E y(z) at a fixed time (t=0) of a plane
wave propagating into a copper conductor. The frequency of the wave is 3GHz
and it has an initial amplitude of E y0=10v/m. Assume the material parameters are
r=1, r=1, and =5.8 x107 S/m.
h) A displacement wave on a string is described by a harmonic wave =0.02sin [2
(10t-0.5z)] m, where z is in meters and t is in seconds. Find:
i. The propagation velocity v.
ii. Wavelength and wave number k.
iii.
Frequency f and angular frequency .
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iv.
The period T.
v.
Direction of propagation.
vi. Amplitude of the wave A.
i) Plot the wave given in Problem 5 as a function of z at t = (a) 0 s, (b) 0.025 s, (c)
0.05 s, and (d) 0.075 s. Convince yourself that the wave pattern progresses in the
positive z direction as time increases.
j) Find and plot the radiation resistance of a short dipole. Also plot its radiation
pattern.

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