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Exercise 6.1.4: Direction finding with three probes

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 6.1.4

Direction finding with three probes

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A plane wave in air arrives from an unknown direction. Small field probes sit at the origin and at , and , with vertical. Relative to the probes measure the phases at , at and at . (a) Find and , and check . (b) Give the elevation and the azimuth (from towards ) of the source. (c) Why must the probe spacing stay below ?

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Try it yourself first.

cf. Problem 6.1.2

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