V R Siddhartha Engineering College:: Vijayawada

17EC3701A: Antennas and Wave Propagation

Assignment-1 Questions bank
A.Y 2021-22

CO1 Analyze the Current distributions & power radiation of different radiating elements

With neat sketch explain the Radiation mechanism of Two CO1

1a)
wire Transmission line and dipole?

1b) Explain the current distribution of thin wire antenna? CO1

2a) Discuss in detail the field regions surrounding an antenna? CO1

Define effective length. Prove that the effective length of the CO1
2b)
transmitting and the receiving antenna are equal.
Define the following terms CO1
3a) i) Beam Area ii) Effective height iii) Radiation Intensity iv) Side
lobe Level v) Field Patterns

How do you obtain the Beam area or Beam Solid angle of an CO1
3b)
Antenna from its Radiation Pattern?
What is Retarded vector potential? Derive the retarded vector CO1
4)
potential for infinitesimal current element.

With neat schematics, explain the configuration of an CO1

5a)
oscillating electric dipole and derive its far field expressions.

Derive FRISS transmission equation for free space wave CO1

5b)
propagation?

Derive an expression for the power radiated by the current CO1

6a)
element and calculate its radiation resistance.

6b) Problems CO1