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Errata for Wentworth, Applied Electromagnetics: Early Transmission Lines Approach

Updated 9/16/09

1. FRONTFLAP: The expression in Table 2.1 for the distributed capacitance of Coaxial
Cable should be changed to:
2πε
C'=
ln ( b a )

2. BACKFLAP: The equations for curl in cylindrical and spherical coordinates should be
replaced with the equations on page 615:

cylindrical
⎡ 1 ∂Az ∂Aφ ⎤ ⎡ ∂Aρ ∂Az ⎤ 1 ⎡ ∂ ( ρ Aφ ) ∂Aρ ⎤
∇×A = ⎢ − ⎥ + −
⎢ ∂z ∂ρ ⎥ + −
ρ ⎢⎣ ∂ρ ∂φ ⎥⎦
a ρ a φ az
⎣ ρ ∂φ ∂z ⎦ ⎣ ⎦

spherical
1 ⎡ ∂ (sin θ Aφ ) ∂Aθ ⎤ 1 ⎡ 1 ∂Ar ∂ ( rAφ ) ⎤ 1 ⎡ ∂ ( rAθ ) ∂ ( Ar ) ⎤
∇×A = ⎢ − ⎥ ar + ⎢ − ⎥ aθ + ⎢ − aφ
r sin θ ⎣ ∂θ ∂φ ⎦ r ⎣ sin θ ∂φ ∂r ⎦ r ⎣ ∂r ∂θ ⎥⎦

3. Page 16: in MATLAB 1.3, the words “Version 1:” and “Version 2:” should be in
Times font to indicate they are not part of the MATLAB program.

4. Page 26: equation (1.20) should read: re jθ = r ∠θ

5. Page 29: In Drill 1.9, change the part (c) angle from 53° to 37°.

6. Page 37: The expression in Table 2.1 for the distributed capacitance of Coaxial Cable
should be changed to:
2πε
C'=
ln ( b a )
7. Page 96: in Figure 2.44, change Zo to Ro

8. Page 109: Problem 2.15, change 2.25 ns to 6.25 ns.

9. Page 120: in Drill 3.2, answer for (d) is: A AB − A AC = 4a y − 3a z

10. Page 142: in Example 3.8 problem statement, ρs = 10.0 nC/m2

⎛V L ⎞⎛ I S ⎞
11. Page 181: Equation (3.95) should be: P = ∫ EiJdv = ⎜ ab ∫ dz ⎟ ⎜ ∫ dS ⎟
⎝ L 0 ⎠⎝ S 0 ⎠
⎛ ab ⎞ Vab
12. Page 194: in Drill 3.31, answer should be: E = ⎜ ⎟ 2 ar
⎝ b − a ⎠ 2r

13. Page 194: equation listed as (3.119) is actually equation (3.121)

14. Page 203: In Problem 3.14(c), change the question to ask for mass rather than weight.

15. Page 223: Near top of Example 4.4, change “= Kzdxdzaz” to “= Kzdxdzaz”

µo I1 I 2 ⎛ yo + w ⎞
16. Page 244: last part of the top equation should be: = ln ⎜ ⎟ az
2π ⎝ yo ⎠
17. Page 273: in (4.112), the l in dl should appear bold to indicate a vector

18. Page 318: change the wording of Problem 5.27 to read “Suppose in a hypothetical,
nonmagnetic material that E(z,t) = …”

19. Page 322: equation (6.7) should be: ∇ × ∇ × A = ∇ ( ∇ ⋅ A ) − ∇ 2 A

20. Page 345: In the first equation after Example 6.6, change the unit vector from az to ax

21. Page 354: In equation (6.102), replace η1 with η2.

22. Page 355: IN (6.111) change = τ Eot to read = τ Eoi

t r
23. Page 358: in Drill 6.15, in the problem statement change Pave to Pave , and change the
amplitude of Hr from -0.81 to -0.80.

2 2
1 ⎛m⎞ ⎛n⎞
24. Page 375: equation (7.1) should read: f cmn = ⎜ ⎟ +⎜ ⎟
2 µε ⎝ a ⎠ ⎝b⎠

25. Page 381: in (7.16) change superscript on Zmn from TE to TM.

26. Page 382: in MATLAB 7.1, under ‘display results’ change to the following plot and
legend to attain the figure shown in Figure 7.8:

plot(fghz,ZTE,'-.k',fghz,Zof,'-k',fghz,ZTM,'--k')
legend('ZTE11','Zo','ZTM11')

27. Page 383: change “…using (6.56)…” to “…using (2.75)…”

28. Page 422: in Example 7.6, 3rd sentence below (7.112), change ∆tt so the sentence
reads “…we have ∆tt = 10 ns and…”
29. Page 434: change “(see MATLAB )” to “(see MATLAB 8.1)”

30. Page 457: change code, 3rd line from the bottom, to read
den(i) = abs(sin(th(i));

31: Page 484: change Example 8.14 to read:

“…of Example 8.5 emitting 720 mW of power, we have Prec = 3.1 nW. From (8.119) we
solve for Voc as
Voc = 4 Rrad Prec = 4 ( 73Ω ) ( 3.1×10−9 W ) = 0.95mV
Without impedance matching, we find from (8.121)
25Ω
VL = ( 0.95mV ) = 242µV
25Ω + 73Ω

32: Page 484: Drill 8.11, change answer to 277 µV

33: Page 514: In Figure 9.14 caption, change to “…typically very large Rδ.”

34. Page 519: in ML0903, change bar(m,b,’-k’) to bar(m,b)

35. Page 556: sentence near the end of ML10.3 should read “…to distinguish it from
ML0204.”

36: Page 630: for P2.11: (a) 2b = 18 mm,

37: Page 636: for P6.5, units for α are Np/m

38: Page 637: for P6.23, units for H are µA/m

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