Unit 1: Step 2 - to recognize the electrodynamic and waves applications

Electromagnetic theory and waves

Dania Carolina Gonzalez Gonzalez

Code:1075313018

Tutor: William Mauricio Saenz

Course: 203058A_474

Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia “UNAD”

CEAD Neiva
Septiembre 2018
5. For a 1GHz signal, traveling in seawater find the attenuation per length unit. How long does
the signal have to travel, in order to have an attenuation greater than 3dB?
Dimmer constant:

𝑎 = √𝜋. 𝑓. 𝜇. 𝜎
For seawater, the parameters are:
𝜎=4
𝜇𝑟 = 1
𝑓 = 1 𝐺ℎ𝑧
Knowing this we substitute and solve:
Having a ∝= 3,54 𝑁𝑝/𝑚
That would be the attenuation constant, under these conditions.
For the attenuation of 3dB, which is equivalent to half its power:
1
𝑒 ∝𝑧 = 2

𝑒 −∝𝑧 = 2
1
𝑧 = ∝ ∗ ln(2) = 1,51𝑚𝑚