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Exercise 6.1.8: From a measured ellipse back to the phasor

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 6.1.8

From a measured ellipse back to the phasor

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A wave travelling towards in air is found to be right-handed elliptically polarised. Its ellipse has the semi-axes and , and the major axis makes with the -axis. (a) Write the phasor (up to a common phase). (b) Verify and with the formulas, Eq. (6.1.58). (c) Find , and the fraction of the power an RHCP antenna receives. (d) A linear antenna can be turned about the -axis to the angle from . At which does it receive most and least, and which fractions of the power?

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Try it yourself first.

cf. Problem 6.1.3

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