Edward C. Jordan Memorial Offering of the First Course under the Indo-US Inter-University Collaborative Initiative in Higher Education and Research: Electromagnetics for Electrical and Computer Engineering by Nannapaneni Narayana Rao Edward C. Jordan Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, Illinois, USA Amrita Viswa Vidya Peetham, Coimbatore July 10 – August 11, 2006

3.5 Sinusoidally Time-Varying Uniform Plane Waves in Free Space

3.5-2 Sinusoidal Traveling Waves

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3.5-5 The solution for the electromagnetic field is

3.5-6 Parameters and Properties

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Example : Direction of propagation is –z. Then

Array of Two Infinite Plane Current Sheets

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For both sheets, No radiation to one side of the array. “Endfire” radiation pattern.