NUMERICAL SHEET 4

TRANSMISSION LINES AND WAVEGUIDES

1. A transmission line with air as dielectric has z0=50Ω and a phase constant of 3 rad/m at 10MHz.
Find the inductance and capacitance of the line. (L=2387.25nH/m. C=954.9 pF/m).

2. A lossy cable which has R=2.2.5Ω/m, L=1.0µH/m, C=1pF/m, and G=0 operates at f=0.5GHz. Find
the attenuation constant of the line. (α=1.125x10^-3 (m^-1))

3. A transmission line in which no distortion is present has the following parameters: zo=50α,
α=0.020 m^-1, v=0.6vo. Determine R, L, G, C and wavelength at 0.1 GHz.
(R=1Ω/m, L=277nH/m, G=400µ mho/m, C=111.1pF/m, λ=1.8m)

4. For a transmission line which is terminated in a normalized impedance zn, VSWR=2.

Find the normalized impedance magnitude. (|zn|=2)

5. A lossless transmission line used in TV receiver has a capacitance of 50 pF/m and an inductance
of 200 nH/m. Find the characteristic impedance for sections of a line 10 m long and 500 m long.
(zo=63.245Ω, zo=63.2Ω)

6. A copper coaxial line has an outside tubing of thickness 1.8mm and its outside diameter is
30mm. The thickness of the inner tubing is 1.0mm and the outside diameter is 8 mm. Find the
outside impedance of the line. (zo=88.79Ω)

7. If a signal of 30 MHz is transmitted through a coaxial cable which has a capacitance of 30 pF/m
and an inductance of 500 nH/m. Find:-
(i)the time delay for a cable 1 m long (3.87ns)
(ii)propagation velocity (2.5839x10^8 m/s)
(iii)propagation delay over a cable length of 10m. (38.7 ns)

8. A lossless transmission line is terminated in a load impedance of 30-j23Ω. Find the phase
constant and reflection coefficient of a line of length 50m. Characteristic impedance, zo=50Ω.
Wavelength on the line=0.45m. (ρ=-(0.1431+j0.3071))

9. If a wave of 6 GHz is propagating between two parallel conducting plates separated by 30mm,
find the cut off and guide wavelength for TE10 mode. (6 cm, 9.05cm)

10. When a wave of 6 GHz propagates in parallel conducting plates separated by 3 cm, find the
phase velocity, group velocity of the wave for the dominant wave.
(5.430x10^8 m/s, 1.66x10^8 m/s)

11. When a wave of 6 GHz is to be propagated between two parallel conducting plates separated by
60 mm, find the modes that will propagate through the guide.