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22-Elec-A7 Electromagnetics: December 2018

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  1. Question 1 Pulse echoes from two shunt taps on an endless line
  2. Question 2 Placing the protective stubs of a two-band diplexer
  3. Question 3 The two lowest propagating modes at 15 GHz and their velocities
  4. Question 4 Vertical component of H in an obliquely climbing plane wave
  5. Question 5 Terminal voltage of a rod crossing a slab of magnetic field
  6. Question 6 Electric field and power density of a circularly polarised wave
  7. Question 7 Penetration depth of a 10 GHz wave into mercury
  8. Question 8 Scaling a short-element field in frequency, range and angle

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Paper format. National Examinations, December 2018, 16-Elec-A7 Electromagnetics. Three hours, closed book, one approved Casio or Sharp calculator. Eight questions, all of equal value; the rubric says any five constitute a complete paper, so a candidate answers five — but all eight are worked here, because the set is a study resource. Aids printed on the paper: $\varepsilon_0 = 8.85\times10^{-12}$ F/m, $\mu_0 = 4\pi\times10^{-7}$ H/m, $e = 1.6\times10^{-19}$ C.

Reference texts. M. N. O. Sadiku, Elements of Electromagnetics, 7th ed.; W. H. Hayt and J. A. Buck, Engineering Electromagnetics, 9th ed.; F. T. Ulaby and U. Ravaioli, Fundamentals of Applied Electromagnetics, 8th ed.; D. M. Pozar, Microwave Engineering, 4th ed.; C. A. Balanis, Antenna Theory: Analysis and Design, 4th ed.

Constants used throughout. Question 6 hands us $\omega = 2\pi\times10^{10}$ rad/s together with $k = (2\pi/3)\ \text{cm}^{-1}$, so the setter’s phase velocity is $\omega/k = 3.000\times10^{8}$ m/s exactly; Question 3’s cut-off arithmetic only closes on round numbers under the same choice. Accordingly $c = 3\times10^{8}$ m/s and $\eta_0 = 120\pi = 376.99\ \Omega$ are used here. The paper’s own aid list would give $c = 2.99863\times10^{8}$ m/s and $\eta_0 = 376.83\ \Omega$ — a 0.05 % shift that changes no answer except at one deliberate boundary case, flagged in Question 3.