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#16-1-486, Saidabad, Hyderabad-500059.

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Electromagnetic Fields (PC302EE) -Hand Book - A.Y 2018-19

Course Code Course Title Core / Elective
PC302EE Electromagnetic Fields
Core
Contact Hours per Week
Prerequisite CIE SEE
L T D P Credits
NIL 3 1 0 0 30 70 3
Course Objectives
 To be able to understand the concepts of electrostatic fields, magneto static fields,
electromagnetic waves and Maxwell’s equation.
 To understand the concepts of electromagnetic wave propagation in different
media.
Course Outcomes
At the end of the course students will be able to
 Formulate problems within electrostatics, magnetostatics and stationary current
distributions in linear, isotropic media.
 Derive expressions for the energy for electrostatic and magnetostatic fields, and
derive Poynting theorem.
 Calculate the boundary conditions for electric and magnetic fields between
different media.
 Calculate the reflection and refraction coefficients of electromagnetic waves for
different conditions.
UNIT-I
Review of Vector Analysis: Coulomb’s Law, Electric field intensity, Electric field due to different
charge distributions. Electric field due to line charge, Sheet charge, Volume charge distribution,
Electric flux density, Gauss’s law, Divergence theorem,. Potential, Potential gradient, Potential field
of different charge distributions, Applications of above laws.

UNIT-II
Energy in electrostatic field, Poisson’s and Laplace equations, Uniqueness theorem, Solution of
Laplace’s equation, Conductors, Dielectric capacitance, Conductor properties and Boundary
conditions, Calculation of capacitance, Boundary conditions for conductors and perfect dielectric
materials.

UNIT-III
Steady magnetic field, Biot-Savart’s law, Ampere’s law, Stoke’s theorem, Magnetic scalar vector
potential Faraday’s law, Magnetic boundary conditions, Self and Mutual inductances, Force on
moving charge, Force on differential elements, Magnetic circuits, Analogy with electrical circuits,
Applications of above laws.

UNIT-IV
Maxwell’s equations in Integral form, Line and surface integrals, Application to static fields,
Boundary conditions, Maxwell’s equations in differential forms, Continuity equation, Potential
function for static fields, Field equations in vector forms, energy storage in electric and magnetic
fields.

UNIT-V
EM waves in homogeneous medium solutions for free space conditions, Uniform plane wave
propagation, Poisson’s and Laplace’s equations, Sinusoidally time varying uniform plane waves in
free space, Uniform plane waves in dielectrics and conductors, Poynting vector, Power dissipation,
Reflection of uniform plane waves, Introduction to method of moments, Method of images.
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Suggested Reading:
1. Matthew Sadiku N.O., Elements of Electromagnetics, Oxford University Press, 4th Edition, 2006.
2. William. Hayt H, Buck John A., Engineering Electromagnetics, Tata McGraw Hill, 7th Edition,
2003.
3. Nannapaneni Narayana Rao, Elements of Engineering Electromagnetics, PHI, New Delhi, 5th
Edition, 2002.

LESSON PLAN
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Faculty Name : Mr. M.SRINIVAS Dept. : Electrical &Electronics Engineering
Subject Name : ELECTROMAGNETIC Code : PC302EE
FIELDS
Year : Semester : III
Degree & Branch : B.E & EEE Academic Year : 2018-19
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S. No. Topic Methodology
Matrusri Engineering College Periods
#16-1-486, Saidabad,
UNIT-I Hyderabad-500059.
1. Department
Review of Vector Analysis of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
3 Chalk&Talk
2. Coulomb’s law & Electric Field Intensity
2 Chalk&Talk
3. EFI due to line charge, sheet charge, volume charge distributions
3 Chalk&Talk
4. Electric flux density, Gauss’s law & Divergence theorem
3 Chalk&Talk
5. Potential and it’s gradient, Potential field of different charge distributions
2 Chalk&Talk
6. Total Periods
13
7. UNIT-II

8. Energy in Electrostatic Field

1 Chalk&Talk
9. Poisson’s and Laplace’s equations & Solution of Laplace’s equation
2 Chalk&Talk
10. Uniqueness theorem
1 Chalk&Talk
11. Capacitance and Calculation of Capacitance
3 Chalk&Talk
12. Conductors, Dielectrics and its properties
2 Chalk&Talk
13. Boundary conditions for conductors and perfect dielectrics
2 Chalk&Talk
14. Total Periods
11
15. UNIT-III

16. Steady Magnetic Field & Biot-Savart’s law

1 Chalk&Talk
17. Ampere’s law and Stokes’s theorem
2 Chalk&Talk
18. Magnetic scalar and vector potential
2 Chalk&Talk
19. Faraday’s law, Magnetic boundary conditions
2 Chalk&Talk
20. Self and Mutual inductances
2 Chalk&Talk
21. Forces on moving charge, differential elements, magnetic circuits
2 Chalk&Talk
22. Analogy with Electrical circuits and applications
2 Chalk&Talk
23. Total Periods
13
24.
UNIT-IV
25.
Maxwell’s equations in integral form, line and surface integral 1 Chalk&Talk
26.
Application to static fields, boundary conditions 1 Chalk&Talk
27.
Maxwell’s equations in differential forms 1 Chalk&Talk
28.
Continuity equation 1 Chalk&Talk
29.
Potential function for static fields, field equations in vector forms 2 Chalk&Talk
30.
Energy storage in electric and magnetic fields 2 Chalk&Talk
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Total :56 Periods

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Electromagnetic Fields Question Bank

Unit-I Short Answer Questions

1. State and explain Coulomb’s law for electrostatics.
2. What do you mean by equipotential line?
3. Define flux density. How is used to obtain field strength at a point?
4. Derive Coulomb’s law form Gauss’s law.
5. What are equipotential surfaces? Comment on their significance.
6. Define potential and potential difference.
7. Give the relationship between potential gradient and electric field intensity.
8. State Divergence theorem.
9. Define Vector product of two vectors.
10. Write expression for differential length in cylindrical and spherical coordinates.
11.Name the various coordinate systems.
12.Find the work done in carrying a 5 C charge from P (1,2, -4) to R (3, -5,6) in an electric field
E  a x  z 2 a y  2 yz a z
V/m.
13.A point charge of 10 nC is located at the origin. If electric potential at (0,6, -8) is 4 V. Obtain the
potential at the point (-3,2,6).
14.Write down the expressions for x,y and z in terms of spherical coordinates r,θ and Φ.
15.Write down expression for differential volume element in terms of spherical coordinate system.
16.Write down expression for differential length in cylindrical and spherical coordinate systems.
17.What is the significance of divergence?
18.What are field lines? How do they differ from lines of force?
19.Define electric field intensity. Express in its distributed form.
20.Which field is called as conservative field?
21.Define flux density. How is used to obtain field strengths at a point?
22.Define dot product with an example.
23.Give the examples of scalar and vector fields.
24.What is the direction of cross product of vectors?
25.State and explain Gauss’s law for electrostatic fields.

Unit-I Long Answer Questions

1. Derive expression for electric field intensity due to infinite line charge
2. Determine D at (4,0,3) due to a point charge -5π mC at (4,0,0) and a line charge 3π mC/m along
the y-axis.
3. State and explain Gauss’s law for electrostatic fields.
4. Verify the potential field V=2x2-3y2+z2 satisfy Laplace’s equation.
5. Obtain the relation between E and V.
6. Find the work done in carrying a 5 C charge from P (1,2, -4) to R (3, -5,6) in an electric field V/m
7. A point charge of 10 nC is located at the origin. If electric potential at (0,6, -8) is 4 V. Obtain the
potential at the point (-3,2,6).
8. The finite sheet of 0  x  1,0  y  1 on the z = 0 plane has a charge density
 s  xy ( x 2  y 2  25)3 / 2 nC/m2. Find (i) the total charge on the sheet. (ii) the electric field
intensity at(0,0,5).
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9. Obtain Gauss’s law in differential form and hence deduce the Laplace and Poisson’s equations.
10. A charge of ring of radius ‘a’ carries a uniform charge distribution. Determine the potential and
the electric field intensity at any point on the axis of the ring.
11. A sheet of charge  s =2nC/m2 is present at the plane x = 3 in free space. Find the magnitude of
the electric field intensity at the origin.
12. Calculate field intensity at point (1,2,3) m due to a charge of 12 nC at (2,3,4) m.

Unit-II Short Answer Questions

1. Write the point form of Ohm’s law
2. Write the Poisson’s and Laplace equations
3. Obtain Poisson’s equation from Gauss’s law
4. Define dipole moment
5. Define Polarization
6. Write the expression for capacitance between two co-axial cylinders.
7. State the boundary conditions at the interface between two perfect dielectrics.
8. Write down the expression for the capacitance between (a) two parallel plates (b) two coaxial
cylinders.
9. Calculate the capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor having an electrode area of 100 cm2. The
distance between the electrodes is 3 mm and the dielectric used has a permittivity of 3.6 and the
applied potential is 80 V. Also compute the charge on the plates.
10. A spherical capacitor is formed by two conductors metallic spheres of radii ‘a’(inner sphere) and
‘b’(outer sphere). The charge on the inner sphere is +Q and that on the outer sphere is -Q.
Determine the capacitance of the system.
11. Define electric susceptibility of the material.

Unit-II Long Answer Questions

1. Derive an expression for energy density in electrostatic fields
2. What is Dipole? Derive the expression for potential and field intensity due to a dipole.
3. Explain the numerical solution of Laplace’s equation.
4. What is the significance of boundary conditions?
5. Explain the Poisson’s equation.
6. Derive the boundary conditions for perfect dielectric materials.
7. Derive the expression for capacitance between two parallel plates.
8. Three point charges -2 nC, 3 nC and 4 nC are located at (0,0,1), (0,1,0), and (1,0,0) m
respectively. Find the energy in the system.
9. A parallel plate capacitor with plate separation of 2 mm has a 1 kV voltage applied to its plates. If
the space between its plates filled with polystyrene (  r =2.55), find polarization vector P .
10. A spherical capacitor has inner radius ‘a’ and outer radius ‘b’ and filled with a homogeneous
 0k 4 0 k
 C
dielectric with
2
r . Show that the capacitance of capacitor is (b  a ) .
11. State and explain Uniqueness theorem.
12. Derive an expression for the capacitance of two wire line.
13. Find the relative permittivity of the dielectric material used in a parallel plate capacitor if C=40nF,
d=0.1mm and S=0.15 m2.

Unit-III Short Answer Questions

1.State and explain law of conservation of magnetic flux.
2.Calculate the self inductance per unit length of an infinitely long solenoid.
3.Define Ampere’s circuital law.
4.Explain magnetic boundary conditions.
5.State different magnetic materials.
6.Draw B-H curve for silicon steel.
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7.State Biot-Savart law.

8.State Lorentz’s law of force.
9.Define magnetic scalar potential.
10.Define magnetic dipole.
11.Define magnetization.
12.Define magnetic susceptibility.
13.Define magnetic flux density.
14.Define magnetic moment.
15.Give the force on a current element.
16.An infinitely long conducting filament is placed along the x-axis and carries current 10 mA in the
ax
direction. Find H at (-2,3,4) m.
17.Find the magnetic field intensity at the centre of a square of side equal to 5m and carrying a current
of 10A.
18.The point charge Q = -40 nC has a velocity of 6 X 106 m/s in the direction of
av  0.48a x  0.6a y  0.64a z
. Calculate the magnitude of the force exerted on the charge by the field
B  2a x  3a y  5a z
kT.
19.State Stoke’s theorem.
20.Define scalar and vector magnetic potentials.
21.What is the inductance of toroid of circular cross section?
22.Obtain the magnetic boundary conditions.

Unit-III Long Answer Questions

1.State Biot-Savart law and derive magnetic field intensity.
2.State and derive Ampere’s circuital law.
3.Derive the expression for the inductance of toroid of circular cross section.
Id L  3 ( a x  2a y  3a z )
4.Find H at origin due to current element Am at point P(3,4,5) in free space.
5.A circular loop of radius ‘b’ is in the xy plane and carries a current I. Obtain an expression for the
magnetic flux density at a point on the positive z-axis.
6.Explain magnetization and permeability.
7.A solenoid with air core has 500 turns of wire. Its length is 750 mm and core radius is 50 mm. What
is its inductance?
8.Obtain expression for H at any point due to a ideal solenoid of given length.
9.Write short notes on (a) Stoke’s theorem (b) Magnetic boundary conditions.
10.Determine the magnetic field intensity at all the possible points due to infinitely long coaxial
transmission line.
A  ( 2 x 2 y  yz )a x  ( xy 2  xz 3 )a y  (6 xyz  2 x 2 y 2 )a z
11.Find a current distribution in free space
wb/m. (i) Calculate B (ii) Find the magnetic flux through a loop described by x=1, 0<y, z<2.
12.Show that magneto static field is not conservative field.
13.Obtain the vector magnetic potential in the region surrounding an infinitely long straight
filamentary current along a z .
14.A solenoid with N1=1000, r1= 1 cm and l1=50 cm is concentric with in a second coil of N 2=2000,
r2=2 cm and l2=50 cm. Find the mutual inductance assuming free space conditions.
The circular loop conductor lies in the z =0 plane has a radius of 0.10 m and a resistance of
5Ω. Given B  0.20Sin10 t a z T. Determine the current.
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15.Obtain the expression for energy stored in magnetic field and also derive an expression for
magnetic energy density.

Unit-IV Short Answer Questions

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1.Explain Faraday’s law of electromagnetic induction.

2.Write Maxwell’s equations for time varying field in point form.
3.Write the integral form of continuity equation and state the meaning.
4.State Poynting theorem.
5.State Maxwell’s equations in integral form.
6.What is displacement current?
7.Explain why Ampere’s law is not consistent with the time varying fields.
8.Distinguish between displacement current density and conduction current density.
9.Distinguish between transformer emf and motional emf.
10.Write the Maxwell’s equations from Ampere’s law both in integral and point forms.
11.Write the Maxwell’s equations from Faraday’s law both in integral and point forms.
12. Determine the force per unit length between two long parallel wires separated by 5 cm in air and
carrying currents of 40 A in the same direction.

Unit-IV Long Answer Questions

1. State and explain Faraday’s law.
2. Develop an expression for induced emf of Faraday’s disc generator.
3. Derive the Maxwell’s equation for free space in integral and point forms explain.
4. Derive Maxwell’s equation from Faraday’s law and Gauss’s law and explain them.
5. Derive the Maxwell’s equation in phasor differential form.
6. Derive the Maxwell’s equation in phasor integral form.
7. Derive and explain the Maxwell’s equations in point form and integral form using Ampere’s
circuital law and Faraday’s law.
8. Write Maxwell’s equations in point form and integral form for static electric and magnetic
fields.
9. Derive power and Poynting theorem.
10. Derive displacement current and current density.
11. Discuss the conduction, convection and displacement current densities.
12. Explain the Maxwell’s equations for the time variant fields in differential and integral forms.
13. State and explain Maxwell’s equations for the time invariant and time variant fields, in
differential and integral forms.
14. Explain Poynting theorem and derive Poynting vector.

Unit-V Short Answer Questions

1. Define a wave.
2. Mention the properties of uniform plane wave.
3. Define intrinsic impedance or characteristic impedance.
4. Calculate the characteristics impedance of free space.
5. Define skin depth.
6. State Snell’s law.
7. What is Brewster angle?
8. Write the wave equation in a conducting medium.
9. Compute the reflection and transmission coefficients of an electric field wave traveling in air
and incident normally on a boundary between air and a dielectric having permittivity of 4.
10. Write the steps involved in method of moment.
11. Briefly explain method of moments.
12. Write the expression for intrinsic impedance.
13. Find the skin depth at frequency of 1.6 MHz in aluminium, where σ = 38.2 MS/m and r =1.
14. Determine the propagation constant at 500 kHz for a medium in which r =1, εr = 15 and σ=0.
15. What do you understand by skin depth?
16. Define velocity and wave length.
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17. The conductivity of silver is 3x106 mho/m. If the skin depth is 1.5 mm, find the frequency of
the wave.
18. A plane wave of 16 GHz frequency and E=10V/m propagates through the body of salt water
having ε =10  r 0, r =1 and σ=100mho/m. Determine α, β and Ƞ.
r
19. Obtain the intrinsic impedance of free space.
20. What is propagation constant and attenuation constant?

Unit-V Long Answer Questions

1.Derive wave equation of an electromagnetic wave propagation through a lossy dielectric
medium.
E  50Sin (108 t  2 z )a y
2.A plane wave in a non magnetic medium has V/m. Find (i) λ (ii) f and ε
(iii) H
3.Derive the wave equation for free space.
4. A 9.375 GHz uniform plane wave is propagating in polyethylene (  r =2.26). If the amplitude of
the electric field intensity is 500 V/m and the material is assumed to be lossless. Find (a) The
phase constant
(b) The wavelength in the polyethylene (c) The velocity of the propagation (d) The intrinsic
impedance
(e) The amplitude of the magnetic field intensity.
5.Explain the wave propagation in good dielectric with necessary equation.
6.Define depth of penetration. Derive its expression.
7.Find the skin depth at a frequency of 1.6 MHz in aluminium σ = 38.2 ms/m and µr = 1.
8.Define Brewster angle and derive its expression. Also define loss tangent of a medium.
9.Show that the intrinsic impedance for free space is 120π. Derive the necessary equation.
Calculate the intrinsic impedance, the propagation constant and wave velocity for a conducting
medium in which σ = 58 ms/m, µr = 1 at a frequency of f = 100 M Hz.

Electromagnetic Fields Assignment-I Questions

1. (a) State and explain Coulomb’s law for electrostatic fields.
(b) Point charges 1 mC and -2 mC are located at (3,2,-1) and (-1,-1,4) respectively.
Calculate the electric force on a 10 nC charge located at (0,3,1) and the electric
field intensity at that point.

2. (a) State and explain Gauss’s law for electrostatic fields.

(b) Given that D  zCos  a z C/m2. Calculate the charge density at (1,π/4,3) and the
2

total charge enclosed by the cylinder of radius 1 m with  2  z  2 m.

3. (a) Derive an expression for Electric Field Intensity (EFI) due to an infinite line charge.
(b) A circular ring of radius a carries a uniform charge  L C/m and is placed on
The xy plane with axis the same as the z-axis.
 L ah
E (0,0, h )  az
(i) Show that 
2 0 h 2
 a 2 3/ 2

(ii) What value of h gives the maximum value of E ?

(iii) If the total charge on the ring is Q , find E as a  0 .
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4. (a) Obtain relationship between E and V .

(b) A point charge of 5 nC is located at (-3,4,0) while line y=1, z=1 carries uniform
charge 2 nC/m.
(i) If V =0 at O(0,0,0), find V at A(5,0,1)
(ii) If V =100 V at B(1,2,1), find V at C(-2,5,3)
(iii) If V =-5 V at O(0,0,0), find VBC
5. (a) Define electric potential and potential difference. Obtain the expression for
Electric potential due to a point charge.
10
V  2 SinCos
(b) Given the potential r . (i) Find the electric flux density D
at (2, π/2, 0) (ii) Calculate the work done in moving 10 μC charge from point
A(1, 300 ,1200) to B(4, 900, 600).

Electromagnetic Fields Assignment-II Questions

1. (a) Derive an expression for energy density in an electrostatic field.
(b) The point charges -1nC, 4nC and 3nC are located at (0,0,0), (0,0,1) and (1,0,0) respectively. Find
the energy in the system.

2. (a) Give the solution of Laplace’s equation in one dimension.

(b) Two conducting cones θ=π/10 and θ=π/6 of infinite extent are separated by an
infinitesimal gap at r=0. If V(θ=π/10)=0 and V(θ=π/6)=50 v. Find V and E between the cones.

3. (a) Define continuity of current and derive continuity equation in point form.
(b) If the ends of a cylindrical bar of carbon (σ = 3X104 S/m) of radius 5 mm and length 8 cm
are maintained at a potential difference of 9 V. Find (i) the resistance of the bar (ii) the
current through the bar (iii) the power dissipated in the bar.

4. (a) Derive the boundary conditions for perfect dielectric materials.

(b) Region 1(z<0) contains a dielectric for which εr = 2.5, while region 2(z>0) is characterized
by
E  30a x  50a y  70a z
εr = 4.0. Let 1 . Find (i) D2 (ii) P2 (iii) the angle between E1 and the
normal to the surface.

5. (a) Derive an expression for the capacitance of two wire line.

(b) State and explain uniqueness theorem.
(c) A cylindrical capacitor has radii a=1 cm and b=2.5 cm. If the space between the plates is filled
(10   )
r 
with an in homogeneous dielectric with  , where  is in centimeters. Find the
capacitance per meter of the capacitor.

Electromagnetic Fields Assignment-III Questions

1. (a) State Biot-Savart’s law and derive magnetic field intensity.
A  ( 2 x 2 y  yz )a x  ( xy 2  xz 3 )a y  (6 xyz  2 x 2 y 2 )a z
(b) For a current distribution in free space
Wb/m. (i) Calculate B (ii) Find the magnetic flux through a loop described by x=1, 0<y,z<2m.

2. (a) State and derive Ampere’s law.

(b) What is Poisson’s equation for magnetostatic field and use the equation to derive the
Ampere’s circuital law in differential and integral form.
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K  10a x K  10a x
(c) Planes z = 0 and z = 4 carry current A/m and A/m respectively.
Determine H at (i) (1,1,1) (ii) (0,-3,10)

3. (a) Explain in detail magnetic scalar and vector potentials.

(b) An infinitely long filamentary wire along the z-axis carries current 20 A along az ,
(i) If Vm = 0 at (2, 00, 5), find Vm at (6, π/4, 0)
(ii) If Vm = 1 A at (0, 7, 10), calculate Vm at (-3, 4, 0)

4. (a) Determine the magnetic field intensity at all possible points due to infinitely long coaxial
transmission line.
(b) Calculate the self inductance per unit length of an infinitely long solenoid.

5. (a) Obtain expression for H at any point due to a ideal solenoid of given length.
(b) A solenoid with N1 = 1000, r1 = 1.0 cm and l1 = 50 cm is concentric with in a second coil of
N2 = 2000, r2 = 2.0 cm and l2 = 50 cm. Find the mutual inductance assuming free space conditions.

Electromagnetic Fields Assignment-IV Questions

1. (a) List all Maxwell’s equations and write their word statement also
(i) Both in point form and integral form (ii) For time varying and time invariant fields
(b) The circular loop conductor lies in the z = 0 plane has a radius of 0.10 m and a resistance of
5.0 Ω. Given B  0.20Sin10 t a z T. Determine the current.
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2. (a) Obtain the magnetic boundary conditions.

(b) The xy plane serves as the interface between two different media. Medium 1 (z<0) is filled with a
material whose μr = 6, and medium 2 (z>0) is filled with a material whose μr = 4. If the interface
1
ay
carries current  0 B  5a x  8a z
A/m, and 2 mWb/m2. Find H 1 and B1 .
3. (a) Derive displacement current and current density.

(b) In a certain material   0 ,    0 r and   0 . If H  10Sin (10 t  2 x )a z A/m, find d ,

8
J
E and  r .
4. (a) Determine the inductance per unit length of a two-wire transmission line with separation
distance ‘d’. Each wire has radius ‘a’.
(b) In a certain region with   0 ,   0 and   6.25 0 , the magnetic field of EM wave is
H  0.6CosxCos108 t a z A/m. Find β and corresponding E using Maxwell’s equations.

5. (a) Explain magnetization and permeability.

H  5 x 2 yz a x  10 xy 2 z a y  15 xyz 2 a z
(b) In a certain region for which  m  19 , A/m. How much
energy is stored in 0 < x < 1, 0 < y < 2, -1 < z < 2 ?

Electromagnetic Fields Assignment-V Questions

1. (a) Explain Poynting theorem and derive Poynting vector.
(b) From the Maxwell’s curl equation derive the wave equation for an Electromagnetic
wave in conducting media.
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E  50 Sin (108 t  2 z )a y
2. (a) A plane wave in a non magnetic medium has V/m. Find (i)λ (ii)f and εr
(iii) H
(b) Write the steps involved in method of moment.

3. (a) A 9.375 GHz uniform plane wave is propagating in polyethylene (  r =2.26). If the amplitude of
the electric field intensity is 500 V/m and the material is assumed to be lossless.
Find (a) The phase constant (b) The wavelength in the polyethylene (c) The velocity of the
propagation (d) The intrinsic impedance (e) The amplitude of the magnetic field intensity.
(b) Briefly explain Method of images.

4. (a) Derive wave equation of an electromagnetic wave propagation through a lossy dielectric
medium.
(b) Define depth of penetration. Derive its expression.
(c) Find the skin depth at a frequency of 1.6 MHz in aluminium σ= 38.2 ms/m and µr = 1.

5. (a) What is uniform wave propagation? Mention its properties.

(b) Define Brewster angle and derive its expression. Also define loss tangent of a medium.
(c) Show that the intrinsic impedance for free space is 120π Ω. Derive the necessary equation.
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Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
 Matrusri Engineering College
#16-1-486, Saidabad, Hyderabad-500059.
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
 Matrusri Engineering College
#16-1-486, Saidabad, Hyderabad-500059.
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering