ECE 107 - Electromagnetism Spring 2010 Midterm Exam #1

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#1 Transmission Lines: (do not forget units!)

A coaxial cable has the following characteristics:

• Radius of center conductor: 0.5 mm
• Radius of outer conductor (inside surface): 3.5 mm 3.5 mm
• Relative dielectric constant: 2.4 (Iossless)
• Conductivity of conductors: infinite
• The cable contains no magnetic materials
• Assume the frequency is 5 GHz

(a) Find the inductance per unit length (1 point)

(b) Find the capacitance per unit length (1 point)

(c) Find the characteristic impedance (1 point)

(d) Find the phase velocity of a wave traveling on this cable (1 point)

(e) Find the wavelength of a 5 GHz wave traveling on this cable (1 point)
 (f) Now assume the cable is terminated in a short circuit. A wave is traveling in the +z direction toward
the short circuit at z=O, and forms a standing wave. Sketch the magnitude of the voltage and current
in the standing wave as a function of z. You do not need to calculate the value at the voltage or
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#2 Power flow:

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(b) What is the voltage reflection coefficient at the interface between the two lines? (1 point)

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(d) How much average power is transmitted into the 150 Ohm line? (1 point)

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(e) What resistance value would eliminate the reflected power? (2 points)

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(f) With the resistor, how much average power is transmitted down the 150 Ohm line? (2 points)

(g) How much average power is absorbed into the resistor? (2 points)

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A 100 Ohm transmission line is terminated with a load of 30+j140 Ohms.

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(d) How far (in wavelengths) from the load is the first voltage minimum? (1 point)

You are now designing a lossless quarter-wavelength transformer to match this load.

(e) How far from the load (in wavelengths) do you start the transformer? (2 points)
 (f) What is the impedance of the quarter-wavelength section? (2 points)

You are now designing a reactive lumped element matching circuit. You would like to place it as close
as possible to the load, in shunt with the transmission line.

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(g) What is the normalized admittance of the load? (2 points)

(h) How far from the load (in wavelengths) do you place the shunt element? (2 points)

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