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This document provides errata for the book "Wentworth, Applied Electromagnetics: Early Transmission Lines Approach" with corrections to equations, figures, examples, problems and MATLAB code throughout the text. There are 38 items that require changes ranging from minor typographical errors to corrections of equations and MATLAB code. The errata affect most chapters of the book providing essential corrections to the content.

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Errata

This document provides errata for the book "Wentworth, Applied Electromagnetics: Early Transmission Lines Approach" with corrections to equations, figures, examples, problems and MATLAB code throughout the text. There are 38 items that require changes ranging from minor typographical errors to corrections of equations and MATLAB code. The errata affect most chapters of the book providing essential corrections to the content.

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Errata for Wentworth, Applied Electromagnetics: Early Transmission Lines Approach

Updated 9/16/09

1. FRONTFLAP: The expression in Table 2.1 for the distributed capacitance of Coaxial
Cable should be changed to:
2πε
C'=
ln ( b a )

2. BACKFLAP: The equations for curl in cylindrical and spherical coordinates should be
replaced with the equations on page 615:

cylindrical
⎡ 1 ∂Az ∂Aφ ⎤ ⎡ ∂Aρ ∂Az ⎤ 1 ⎡ ∂ ( ρ Aφ ) ∂Aρ ⎤
∇×A = ⎢ − ⎥ + −
⎢ ∂z ∂ρ ⎥ + −
ρ ⎢⎣ ∂ρ ∂φ ⎥⎦
a ρ a φ az
⎣ ρ ∂φ ∂z ⎦ ⎣ ⎦

spherical
1 ⎡ ∂ (sin θ Aφ ) ∂Aθ ⎤ 1 ⎡ 1 ∂Ar ∂ ( rAφ ) ⎤ 1 ⎡ ∂ ( rAθ ) ∂ ( Ar ) ⎤
∇×A = ⎢ − ⎥ ar + ⎢ − ⎥ aθ + ⎢ − aφ
r sin θ ⎣ ∂θ ∂φ ⎦ r ⎣ sin θ ∂φ ∂r ⎦ r ⎣ ∂r ∂θ ⎥⎦

3. Page 16: in MATLAB 1.3, the words “Version 1:” and “Version 2:” should be in
Times font to indicate they are not part of the MATLAB program.

4. Page 26: equation (1.20) should read: re jθ = r ∠θ

5. Page 29: In Drill 1.9, change the part (c) angle from 53° to 37°.

6. Page 37: The expression in Table 2.1 for the distributed capacitance of Coaxial Cable
should be changed to:
2πε
C'=
ln ( b a )
7. Page 96: in Figure 2.44, change Zo to Ro

8. Page 109: Problem 2.15, change 2.25 ns to 6.25 ns.

9. Page 120: in Drill 3.2, answer for (d) is: A AB − A AC = 4a y − 3a z

10. Page 142: in Example 3.8 problem statement, ρs = 10.0 nC/m2

⎛V L ⎞⎛ I S ⎞
11. Page 181: Equation (3.95) should be: P = ∫ EiJdv = ⎜ ab ∫ dz ⎟ ⎜ ∫ dS ⎟
⎝ L 0 ⎠⎝ S 0 ⎠
⎛ ab ⎞ Vab
12. Page 194: in Drill 3.31, answer should be: E = ⎜ ⎟ 2 ar
⎝ b − a ⎠ 2r

13. Page 194: equation listed as (3.119) is actually equation (3.121)

14. Page 203: In Problem 3.14(c), change the question to ask for mass rather than weight.

15. Page 223: Near top of Example 4.4, change “= Kzdxdzaz” to “= Kzdxdzaz”

µo I1 I 2 ⎛ yo + w ⎞
16. Page 244: last part of the top equation should be: = ln ⎜ ⎟ az
2π ⎝ yo ⎠
17. Page 273: in (4.112), the l in dl should appear bold to indicate a vector

18. Page 318: change the wording of Problem 5.27 to read “Suppose in a hypothetical,
nonmagnetic material that E(z,t) = …”

19. Page 322: equation (6.7) should be: ∇ × ∇ × A = ∇ ( ∇ ⋅ A ) − ∇ 2 A

20. Page 345: In the first equation after Example 6.6, change the unit vector from az to ax

21. Page 354: In equation (6.102), replace η1 with η2.

22. Page 355: IN (6.111) change = τ Eot to read = τ Eoi

t r
23. Page 358: in Drill 6.15, in the problem statement change Pave to Pave , and change the
amplitude of Hr from -0.81 to -0.80.

2 2
1 ⎛m⎞ ⎛n⎞
24. Page 375: equation (7.1) should read: f cmn = ⎜ ⎟ +⎜ ⎟
2 µε ⎝ a ⎠ ⎝b⎠

25. Page 381: in (7.16) change superscript on Zmn from TE to TM.

26. Page 382: in MATLAB 7.1, under ‘display results’ change to the following plot and
legend to attain the figure shown in Figure 7.8:

plot(fghz,ZTE,'-.k',fghz,Zof,'-k',fghz,ZTM,'--k')
legend('ZTE11','Zo','ZTM11')

27. Page 383: change “…using (6.56)…” to “…using (2.75)…”

28. Page 422: in Example 7.6, 3rd sentence below (7.112), change ∆tt so the sentence
reads “…we have ∆tt = 10 ns and…”
29. Page 434: change “(see MATLAB )” to “(see MATLAB 8.1)”

30. Page 457: change code, 3rd line from the bottom, to read
den(i) = abs(sin(th(i));

31: Page 484: change Example 8.14 to read:

“…of Example 8.5 emitting 720 mW of power, we have Prec = 3.1 nW. From (8.119) we
solve for Voc as
Voc = 4 Rrad Prec = 4 ( 73Ω ) ( 3.1×10−9 W ) = 0.95mV
Without impedance matching, we find from (8.121)
25Ω
VL = ( 0.95mV ) = 242µV
25Ω + 73Ω

32: Page 484: Drill 8.11, change answer to 277 µV

33: Page 514: In Figure 9.14 caption, change to “…typically very large Rδ.”

34. Page 519: in ML0903, change bar(m,b,’-k’) to bar(m,b)

35. Page 556: sentence near the end of ML10.3 should read “…to distinguish it from
ML0204.”

36: Page 630: for P2.11: (a) 2b = 18 mm,

37: Page 636: for P6.5, units for α are Np/m

38: Page 637: for P6.23, units for H are µA/m

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