Assignment –3
1. An air filled planar line with w = 30 cm, d = 1.2 cm, t = 3 mm has conducting plates σ c = 7 x 107
S/m. Calculate R, L, C, and G at 500 MHz.
2. A telephone line has R = 40 Ω/m, G = 400 µS/m, L = 0.2 µH/m and C = 0.5 nF/m.
a) If the line operates at 10 MHz, calculate the characteristic impedance Z0 and velocity u.
b) After how many meters will the voltage drop by 30 dB in the line?
3. A coxial line 5.6 m long has distributed parameters R = 6.5 Ω/m, L = 3.4 µH/m , G = 8.4 mS/m,
and C = 21.5 pF/m. If the line operates at 2 MHz, calculate the characteristic impedance and the
end-to-end propagation time delay.
4. A quarter wave lossless 100 Ω line is terminated by a load ZL = 210 Ω. If the voltage at the receiving
end is 80 V, what is the voltage at the sending end?
5. A 2 cm x 3 cm waveguide is filled with a dielectric material with Ꜫr = 4. If the waveguide operates
at 20 GHz with TM11 mode, find:
a) Cutoff frequency
b) Phase constant
c) Phase velocity
6. A 1 cm x 2 cm waveguide is filled with deionized water with Ꜫr = 81. If the operating frequency is
4.5 GHz, determine:
a) All possible propagating modes and their cutoff frequencies
b) Intrinsic impedance of the highest mode
c) Group velocity of the lowest mode
7. Calculate the dimensions of an air-filled rectangular waveguide for which the cutoff frequencies for
TM11 and TE03 modes are both equal to 12 GHz. At 8 GHz, determine whether the dominant mode
will propagate or evanesce in the waveguide.
8. In an air-filled rectangular waveguide with a = 2.286 cm and b = 1.016 cm, the y component of the
TE mode is given by
2𝜋𝑥 3𝜋𝑦
𝐸𝑦 = sin ( ) cos ( ) sin(10𝜋 𝑥 1010 𝑡 − 𝛽𝑧) 𝑉/𝑚
𝑎 𝑏
Find:
a) Operating mode
b) Propagation constant ϒ
c) Intrinsic impedance ղ
9. A rectangular waveguide with cross section as shown below has dielectric discontinuity. Calculate
the standing wave ratio if the guide operates at 8 GHz in the dominant mode.