Classical Electrodynamics PHY5347

HOMEWORK 20
(February 28, 2013)
Due on Tuesday, March 21, 2013
PROBLEM 58
Consider a waveguide made of an ideal conductor with cross sectional area in the shape
of a quarter circle of radius R, as shown in the gure. In what follows assume that
you are interested in computing only transverse magnetic (TM) waves, i.e., B
z
0
everywhere.
(a) We have shown in class that knowledge of the longitudinal component of the
electric eld (E
z
) is sucient to completely specify E and B. Assuming a
traveling-wave solution of the form:
E
z
(x, t) = E
z
(, )e
i(kzt)
,
compute the longitudinal component of the electric eld E
z
(, ) by solving the
appropriate eigenvalue equation.
(b) From the results of part (a) obtain E
z
(, ) for the lowest-frequency mode of
propagation and give the value of the cuto frequency.
You might nd the following table useful:
Function First root
J
0
(J

0
) 2.405(3.832)
J
1
(J

1
) 3.832(1.841)
J
2
(J

2
) 5.136(3.054)
Here J
m
are Bessel functions satisfying the dierential equation:
d
2
dr
2
J
m
(kr) +
1
r
d
dr
J
m
(kr) +

k
2

m
2
r
2

J
m
(kr) = 0 .
R
z
PROBLEM 59
A resonant cavity in the form of a cube of side a (as shown in the gure) is made of
perfectly conducting walls. For a certain cavity mode the electric eld is given by the
following expression:
E(r, t) = xE
0
sin

y
a

sin

z
a

e
it
.
In what follows assume that the material inside the cavity is vacuum.
(a) Compute the magnetic eld B.
(b) Show explicitly that all of Maxwells equations and its associated boundary
conditions are satised.
(c) What is the resonant frequency of this mode?
(d) Find the currents that are owing through the walls.
PROBLEM 60
In Section 8.4 Jackson solves the problem of the propagation of TE waves in a rect-
angular wave guide with inner dimensions a and b (see Jacksons Figure 8.5). In this
problem you will consider the same geometry but now for TM waves. Throughout
this problem you may assume that ==1.
(a) Using Maxwells equation and its associated boundary conditions, compute the
longitudinal component of the electric eld E
z
(r, t) by solving a suitable eigen-
value problem.
(b) For the lowest propagating mode, obtain all the components of both the electric
and magnetic elds.
(c) For the lowest propagating mode, obtain the surface charge density induced in
the walls of the waveguide.
(d) For the lowest propagating mode, obtain the surface current density K induced
in the walls of the waveguide.