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Exercise 6.1.16: Circular polarisation in an oblique direction

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 6.1.16

Circular polarisation in an oblique direction

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A plane wave in air has the electric field

(a) Find , and the direction of propagation, and check that is transverse. (b) Determine the polarisation (type and hand). (c) Find and check that it has the same polarisation. (d) Find and the power crossing of the plane . (e) Write and follow its tip from to .

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Try it yourself first.

cf. Problem 6.1.2

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