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Exercise 6.1.14: Exposure near a weather radar

About the further exercises of Section 6.1

Seventeen further exercises in the spirit of the problems, the home exercises and the worked examples, graded from easy to harder within each group. Exercises 6.1.1–6.1.4 are about uniform plane waves, , , and the triad, Exercises 6.1.5–6.1.6 about power, energy and loss, Exercises 6.1.7–6.1.10 about polarisation, Exercises 6.1.11–6.1.12 about the Doppler effect, and Exercises 6.1.13–6.1.17 mix power, exposure and polarisation. Besides the relations listed at the head of this subsection they use the lossy forms , , and (Exercise 6.1.6 only), the average energy density , Faraday's law , and the polarisation match . A field factor is .

Exercise 6.1.14

Exposure near a weather radar

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An S-band weather radar () sends pulses of duration at a repetition frequency of . On the axis of its beam, at , the power density during a pulse is . (a) Find the peak amplitudes of and there. (b) Find the time-average power density for a beam that stays pointed at the observer, and the amplitude of the CW wave with the same average. (c) In operation the beam, wide, turns steadily through in azimuth. What average power density does the observer receive then? (d) Compare (b) and (c) with the limit of Problem 6.1.8 at this frequency. Assuming , find the distance on the axis inside which a stationary beam would exceed the limit, and the peak field there.

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Try it yourself first.

cf. Problem 6.1.9

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