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6.641 Electromagnetic Fields, Forces, and Motion: Mit Opencourseware

This document contains the final exam for the MIT course 6.641 Electromagnetic Fields, Forces, and Motion from Spring 2006. The exam contains 4 multi-part problems related to electromagnetic fields. Problem 1 involves calculating fields from a surface current sheet. Problem 2 examines charge distributions and fields in a cylindrical dielectric. Problem 3 looks at the magnetic field from a permanently magnetized sphere. Problem 4 analyzes forces and vibrations on a current-carrying string. The exam is 3 hours long and allows students to bring 3 sheets of notes.

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6.641 Electromagnetic Fields, Forces, and Motion: Mit Opencourseware

This document contains the final exam for the MIT course 6.641 Electromagnetic Fields, Forces, and Motion from Spring 2006. The exam contains 4 multi-part problems related to electromagnetic fields. Problem 1 involves calculating fields from a surface current sheet. Problem 2 examines charge distributions and fields in a cylindrical dielectric. Problem 3 looks at the magnetic field from a permanently magnetized sphere. Problem 4 analyzes forces and vibrations on a current-carrying string. The exam is 3 hours long and allows students to bring 3 sheets of notes.

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6.641 Electromagnetic Fields, Forces, and Motion


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Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
6.641 Electromagnetic Fields, Forces, and Motion
Final Exam
May 23, 2006
Spring 2006
Final Exam Tuesday, May 23, 2006, 9 AM noon.
The 6.641 Formula Sheet is attached. You are also allowed to bring three 8 x 11
sheet of notes (both sides) that you prepare.
Problem 1 (25 points)
y
K z ( x = 0, y ) = K 0 cos ky
A sheet of surface current of infinite
extent in the y and z directions is placed at
x = 0 and has distribution
K z ( x = 0, y ) = K 0 cos ky . The surface
current flows in the z direction. Free
space with no conductivity ( = 0 ) and
magnetic permeability 0 is present for
x < 0 while for 0 < x <s a perfectly
insulating medium ( = 0 ) with magnetic
permeability is present. The region for
x > s is a grounded perfect conductor so
that the magnetic field is zero for x > s.
Because there are no volume currents
anywhere, H = , where is the
magnetic scalar potential.

= 0,

= 0, 0

a) What are the boundary conditions necessary to solve for the magnetic fields for x < 0 and
for 0 < x < s?
b) What are the magnetic scalar potential and magnetic field distributions for x < 0 and 0 < x < s?
Hint: The algebra will be greatly reduced if you use one of the following forms of the
potential for the region 0 < x < s
i)
ii)

sin(ky)cosh[k(x-s)]
cos(ky)cosh[k(x-s)]

iii)
iv)

sin(ky)sinh[k(x-s)]
cos(ky)sinh[k(x-s)]

c) What is the surface current distribution on the x = s surface?


d) Use the Maxwell Stress Tensor to find the total force, magnitude and direction, on a section
2
of the perfect conductor at x = s that extends over a wavelength 0< y <
and 0 < z < D?
k
Assume that in the region 0 < x < s does not depend on density so that d / d = 0 .
Hint:

cos (ky)dy = 2 y + 4k sin(2ky)


2

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Problem 2 (25 points)

Depth d

0 , = 0

R1
R2
f (t = 0) = 0

i(t)

A lossy dielectric cylindrical shell, R1 < r < R2, having dielectric permittivity and ohmic
conductivity is uniformly charged at time t=0 with free volume charge density f (t = 0) = 0 .
The region for 0 < r < R1 is free space with permittivity 0 and zero conductivity ( = 0 ).
Assume that the surface charge density at r = R1 is zero for all time, s ( r = R1 , t ) = 0 .
The r=R2 surface is a grounded perfectly conducting cylinder so that the electric field for r>R2 is
zero. The depth d of the cylinder and system is very large so that fringing fields can be neglected.
a) What is the electric field in the free space region, 0 < r < R1, as a function of time?
b) What is the volume charge density and electric field within the cylindrical shell,
R1 < r < R2, as a function of radius and time?
c) What is the surface charge density on the interface at r=R2?
d) What is the ground current i(t)?

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Problem 3 (25 points)


z

ir
i

R
Rp

M = M 0 iz

A sphere with radius Rp is comprised of a uniformly permanently magnetized material in the z


direction, M 0 iz = M 0 [ ir cos i sin ] . The sphere is placed concentric within a free space
spherical hole of radius R within a perfect conductor as shown in the cross-sectional drawing in
the figure above. The region Rp<r< R is filled with free space with magnetic permeability 0 .
There are no volume free currents anywhere ( J f = 0 ) and there is no free surface current on the
r=Rp interface.

a) Prove that the magnetic scalar potential obeys Laplaces equation for 0<r<Rp and
Rp<r<R where H = .
b) What are the boundary conditions required to determine the magnetic field in regions
0<r<Rp and Rp<r<R.
c) Find the magnetic field H (r , ) in regions 0<r<Rp and Rp<r<R.
d) Find the free surface current density K on the r=R surface.

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Problem 4 (25 points)

I1
a

0
T, m

I2
x=0

( x, t )

x=L

A conducting string at r=0 having equilibrium tension T and mass per unit length m is stretched
horizontally and fixed at two rigid supports a distance L apart. The elastic string carries a current
I2 and can have transverse displacements ( x, t ) . Another rigid wire is placed at r=a and carries
a current I1. The region surrounding the string and wire is free space with magnetic permeability
0 . Assume that transverse displacements ( x, t ) of the string centered at r=0 depend only on
position x and time t. Gravity is downwards with acceleration g.
a) To linear terms in membrane displacement ( x, t ) , find the magnetic force per unit
length on the string centered at r=0.
b) What is the governing linearized differential equation of motion of the membrane?
c) What must I1 be in terms of I2, m and other relevant parameters so that the membrane is
in static equilibrium with ( x, t ) = 0 .
d) For small membrane deflections of the form ( x, t ) = Re e j (t kx ) find the k
dispersion relation. Plot the -k relationship showing significant intercepts on the axes
and slope asymptotes. Assume that k is real and that can be pure real or pure
imaginary.
e) What are the allowed values of k that satisfy the zero deflection boundary conditions at
x=0 and x=L?
f) Under what conditions will the membrane equilibrium with ( x, t ) = 0 first become
unstable?

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