Fundamentals of Applied Electromagnetics (7th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780133356816
Author: Fawwaz T. Ulaby, Umberto Ravaioli
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 8, Problem 36P
A 50 MHz right-hand circularly polarized plane wave with an electric field modulus of 30 V/m is normally incident in air upon a dielectric medium with ϵr = 9 and occupying the region defined by z ≥ 0.
- (a) Write an expression for the electric field phasor of the incident wave, given that the field is a positive maximum at z = 0 and t = 0.
- (b) Calculate the reflection and transmission coefficients.
- (c) Write expressions for the electric field phasors of the reflected wave, the transmitted wave, and the total field in the region z ≤ 0.
- (d) Determine the percentages of the incident average power reflected by the boundary and transmitted into the second medium
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