DAYANANDA SAGAR UNIVERSITY Date: /03/2020

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School of Engineering
KUDLU GATE, BANGALORE-560068 USN

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

Course: Antenna and Wave Propagation Year/Semester: III / VI
Course code: 16EC307 Internal Assessment: 1
Max. Marks: 50 Duration: 1½ hours
Session: Jan - May 2020
Note: 1. Answer any FIVE full Questions
2. Each question carries 10 marks
Question Blooms
No.
Question level
COs Marks
Q. 1. A Define the following terms with necessary mathematical 1 2 8
expressions (i) Beam width (ii) Radiation Intensity (iii)
Directivity and Gain (iv) Aperture Efficiency.
B Normalized radiation intensity of an antenna 3 1 2
,
find (i) Half Power Beam Width and (ii) First Null Beam width.

Q. 2. A Explain how electric field lines are formed and get detached 3 1 6
from short dipole antenna.
B Define radian and steradian. Give the relation between them. 2 2 4

Q. 3. What are Hertzian dipoles? Derive the Electric and Magnetic 3 2 10

field quantities of infinitesimal dipole.

Q. 4. A What are the different types of array antennas? Explain each one 2 4 6
of them.
B Explain Friis transmission formula and express in effective 2 3 4
antenna aperture.

Q. 5. A Explain and derive necessary expression to characterize 3 4 6

parameters of two point sources fed with equal magnitude and
same phase currents.
B An electric field strength of 10 μV/m is to be measured at an 2 2 4
observation point θ = π/2, 500 km from a half-wave (resonant)
dipole antenna operating in air at 50 MHz. (i) What is the length
of the dipole? (ii) Calculate the current that must be fed to the
antenna.(iii) Find the average power radiated by the antenna.

Q. 6. Plot radiation pattern of two isotropic point sources of equal 3 4 10

amplitude and π/2 phase difference by deriving necessary
equations at λ/2.

Course Coordinator’s Name with Signature: Signature of the Chairman

Date:24.02.2020
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