Engineering Electromagnetics I
Course No. 0909-301-01
Fall 2004, 1st Quarter
Lab Project 1: Scalar & Vector Fields
Report due Wednesday,
September 22.
Objective
This project is designed to provide you with an introduction to
calculating and plotting scalar and vector fields. This project has
three parts. In part
1, you will generate surface/vector plots of static scalar and vector
fields.
In part 2, you will generate movies of time-varying scalar and vector
fields.
In part 3, you will compute the scalar and vector electromagnetic
fields
inside a parallel plate capacitor.
Part 1
- Plot the static scalar field S1(x, y) = sin(xy)
exp{-(x
2 + y2)}
- Plot the static vector field P1(x,y) = grad
(S1)
Part 2
- Generate a movie of the time-varying scalar field S2(x,
y, t) = sin(xy) sin(pt) exp{-(x2 +
y2)}
- Generate a movie of the time-varying vector field P2
(x,y,t) = sin(xy) exp{-(x2sinpt +
y
2 sinpt)} x + cos(xy) exp{-(x
2sinpt + y2 sin
pt)} y
-
BONUS
- Generate a movie of the moving time-varying
vector
field - you design the equation. Class will vote on the coolest
movie - and extra points will be awarded to that group!
Part 3
- A DC voltage of 10 V is applied across a parallel plate
capacitor with a 2 cm separation between the plates. Knowing that the
potential field distribution
inside the capacitor is linear, plot the potential and electric fields
inside
the capacitor. How would the potential and electric field distribution
be
if the voltage applied to the plates was a 10 V rms sinusoidal signal
at
60 Hz?
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project report format.