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Reg No.:_______________ Name:__________________________

APJ ABDUL KALAM TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
B.Tech Degree S6 (S, FE) / S4 (PT) (S) Examination January 2024 (2019 Scheme)

Course Code: ECT302

Course Name: ELECTROMAGNETICS
Max. Marks: 100 Duration: 3 Hours

PART A
Answer all questions, each carries 3 marks. Mar
ks
1 Find the vector projection of A = 2a x + a y − 2a z on B = 5a x − 10a y + 3a z . (3)

2 A point charge of 6 nC is located at origin in free space. Find the potential difference (3)
between the points 𝑃1 (0.2,-0.4, 0.4) and 𝑃2 (1, 0, 0).
3 Calculate the capacitance of 1 km length of an air-filled co-axial cable with inner (3)
diameter 6 mm and outer diameter 14 mm.
4 State and prove Ampere’s Circuital Law for a time varying electromagnetic field. (3)
5 Find the skin depth of a Copper material with  r = 5 and frequency of propagation is (3)

2MHz in z-direction.
6 What is the expression for propagation constant for general unbounded medium? What (3)
 
will be the values of the ratio   for good-dielectric and good-conducting
  
medium?
7 Find the reflection coefficient and VSWR of a transmission line of characteristic (3)
impedance 50 and load impedance j 50 .
8 Define a distortion less transmission line. What is the condition for distortion less line? (3)
9 Explain why TEM wave cannot propagate in a single conductor hollow waveguide. (3)
10 A rectangular waveguide with dimensions 5x3cm operates at 10GHz. Find (3)
f c , c and g for the dominant mode.
PART B
Answer one full question from each module, each carries 14 marks.
Module I
11 a) Determine the flux of D =  2 cos 2 a + z sin  a c/m 2 over the closed surface of (8)
 

the cylinder, 0  z  1, and r = 4 . Verify divergence theorem.

b) Show that the electric field intensity E is the gradient of potential V. (6)

OR

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12 a) State Gauss law in electrostatics. Apply Gauss law to find E-field of an infinite sheet (8)
of charge of uniform charge  s C/m2.

b) The region y  0 consists of a perfect conductor while region y  0 is a dielectric (6)

medium with  r = 2 . If there is a surface charge of 2nC/m2 on the conductor interface.

Determine E and D at A (3,-2, 2) and B (-4, 1, 5).

Module II
13 a) Derive the electromagnetic wave equation in a lossy dielectric medium. (8)
b) From fundamental laws, derive the continuity equation for current. (6)
OR
14 a) Derive the expression for energy stored in electric field. (7)
b) At the boundary of different materials, obtain the boundary conditions for the (7)

tangential and normal components of H -field, with zero and nonzero surface currents.
Module III
15 a) 1 2H (7)
Using Maxwell’s equation for free space, show that  2 H = .
c 2 t 2
b) If  r = 9 ,  =  0 , for a medium in which a wave with a frequency f= 0.3 GHz is (7)

propagating. Find the propagation constant and intrinsic impedance of the medium
when conductivity  = 0 .
OR
16 a) Obtain the expressions for reflection coefficient and transmission coefficient of plane (7)
wave when it is normally incident on the interface between two different dielectric
boundaries.

( )
b) For a uniform plane wave propagating in z-direction, E = 20 sin 10 8 t −  z a in free
y
(7)

space. Find 𝐷, 𝐻,  and phase velocity for the wave.

Module IV
17 a) State Poynting theorem. Derive Poynting theorem starting from Maxwell’s equations. (7)
b) A lossless transmission line is 80cm long and operates at a frequency of 600MHz. The (7)
line parameters are L = 0.25H / m and C = 100 pF / m . Find the characteristic
impedance, the phase constant, the phase velocity on the line and the input impedance
for Z L = 100 .
OR
18 a) For a transmission line derive the expression for input impedance and reflection (8)
coefficient.

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b) A distortionless transmission line operating at 500 MHz has Z 0 = 80 , (6)

 = 0.04 Neper / m ,  = 1.5rad / m . Find the line parameters.

Module V
19 a) Obtain the input impedances for open circuited and short circuited transmission lines. (6)
Explain how they relate to characteristic impedance of the line.
b) In a rectangular waveguide for which a = 1.5cm, b = 0.8 cm,  = 0 ,  =  0 and (8)

  x   3 y 
 = 4 0 , H x = 2 sin  cos 
11
( )
 sin  10 t −  z A/m . Determine:
 a   b 
i) Mode of propagation ii) cut off frequency iii) Phase constant, 
iv) Propagation constant,  v) Intrinsic wave impedance, 
OR
20 a) A 60 lossless line is terminated with a load, Z L = 60 + j 60  . If the line is 0.6 (8)

long, then using Smith chart, Find (i) Reflection coefficient at load (ii) VSWR
and (iii) Input impedance
b) Examine whether the following modes propagate inside an air filled rectangular (6)
waveguide of dimension 7.21cm x 3.4 cm operating at 5 GHz. i) TE01 ii) TM11
iii) TE30
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