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Activities guide and evaluation rubric – Step 3

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Academic Unit Escuela de Ciencias Básicas, Tecnología e Ingeniería

Academic Level Profesional
Academic Field Formación interdisciplinar básica común
Course Name Teoria electromagnética y ondas
Course Code 203058
Course Type Theoretical Can be enabled yes ☒ No ☐
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Type of the activity: Individual ☐ Collaborative ☒ weeks 4

Moment of evaluation: Initial ☐ Unit 2, Intermediate: ☒ Final ☐
Delivery Environment of the activity:
Evaluative score of the activity: 110
Monitoring and evaluation environment
Starting date of the activity: Deadline of the activity:
October 4, 2019 November 1, 2019
Competence to develop:
The student applies the concepts of physics and electromagnetism, to determine the
parameters of electromagnetic wave behavior when propagated in bounded open media,
using mathematical methods to solve application exercises.
Topics to develop:
- Modes of propagation of electromagnetic waves.
- Propagation in bounded open media.
- Reflection and transmission of waves.
- Snell's Law.
Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop
This activity called “Step 3”, is individual and collaborative, for its development you must
follow the 6 acts presented below:
Act 1: Explore the academic resource "Propagation of waves in open media" described
at the beginning of the "Activities to develop" section of this document.
Act 2: Download the “Annex 3 - Delivery format - Step 3” found in the collaborative
learning environment in the "Activities guide and evaluation rubric - Step 3 - to
understand the waves behavior in open and enclosure mediums" folder.
Act 3: Individually, based on the exploration carried out, answer the 5 questions proposed
in the next section "Activities to develop".
Act 4: Individually, based on the exploration performed, solve the 3 proposed application
exercises, you must show the procedures performed.
Act 5: Each student must complete the application in its individual delivery format,
verifying the requirements of the evaluation rubric.
Act 6: In the 2 days, before the closing of the activity, the group leader must gather the
delivery formats of each student and compress in a single file, which must be delivered in
the monitoring and evaluation environment.
Activities to develop
For the development of this activity, explore in the Knowledge Environment, in Unit 2, the
bibliographical reference of Chen, W. (2005), on pages 519-524, Wiley, J. y Sons Ltd. (2003),
on pages 31-51 and supplement with the aids generated by the tutor within the forum, to
solve the following consultation and application exercises:

Questions: (write with your own words)

1. What are the modes of propagation of electromagnetic waves?
2. What does it mean to polarize an electromagnetic wave?
3. What is the phenomenon of total reflection of an electromagnetic wave?
4. What is the phenomenon of total refraction of an electromagnetic wave?
5. What is the purpose of Snell's Law in the study of the propagation of waves?

Application exercises:
For the development of the following exercises, note that 𝐺𝐺 corresponds to the group
number and 𝐶𝐶𝐶 to the first 3 digits of the identification number.

1. An electromagnetic wave of 𝑓 = 𝐺𝐺 𝑀𝐻𝑧 and 𝑃1+ = 200𝑚𝑊/𝑚2 , incident from the air (𝜂1 =
120𝜋 𝛺), perpendicular to an infinite wall with an intrinsic impedance 𝜂2 = 𝐶𝐶𝐶 𝛺.
Calculate the reflected power 𝑃1− and the transmitted power 𝑃2+ to the wall.

Figure 1: Propagation of “normal wave” in infinite medium.

2. An electromagnetic wave of 𝑓 = 𝐺𝐺 𝑀𝐻𝑧 and 𝑃1+ = 200𝑚𝑊/𝑚2 , coming from a
wave generator located 30𝑐𝑚 from the wall, which impinges from the air
(𝜂1 = 120𝜋 𝛺) perpendicularly on a wall with an intrinsic impedance 𝜂2 = 𝐶𝐶𝐶 𝛺 and
10𝑐𝑚 thick. The wall is made of a non-magnetic and non-dissipative material. On
the other side of the wall is a receiver located 20cm away.

Figure 2: Propagation of “normal wave” in finite medium.

a. Calculate the coefficient of reflection and transmission seen by the generator.

b. Determine in [%] and [𝑚𝑊/𝑚2 ] the power that is transmitted to the receiver.

3. An electromagnetic wave propagates through several media as shown in the graph.

Figure 3: Propagation of “oblique wave” in finite media.

Initially the ray travels through the ice layer striking the air layer at point B, forming
an angle of 𝜃𝑎 = 44,9°. Using Snell's Law, calculate step by step the total path of the
wave to determine the value of "d". Note that each layer is 𝐶𝐶𝐶 𝑚𝑚 thick and that at
point C there is a total refractive effect, so it is necessary to identify which material is
in layer 3 by calculating its refractive index.
Environment for  Collaborative learning environment - Forum Step 3.
the  Knowledge environment - Unit 2.
development  Monitoring and evaluation environment – Step 3.

Individual:
Each student, using the Delivery Format - Step 3 found in the Practical
Learning Environment, gradually presents the activity in the Step 3
forum until completing the following structure:
1. Cover.
2. Introduction (indicate what is in the document).
3. Content. (Answer to questions and exercises).
4. 2 conclusions (indicate in them what you learned).
5. 1 reference (in APA format).
The name of the final individual document must be Step 3 - First
Name Last Name.pdf.

Collaborative:
In the 3 days before the closing of the activity, students must present
their final individual work in pdf format in the Step 3 forum.
The leader must take the final works of each student and generate a
Products to compressed file .rar or .zip with the name Step 3 and deliver it in the
deliver by Monitoring and evaluation environment in the Step 3 space.
student

Figure 4: Group consolidation example.

 3. General guidelines for the collaborative work

Schedule of activities:
Table 1: Development Schedule of Step 3:
Acts Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4
Acts 1-2:
04-10/10 11-17/09
Exploration
Acts 3-4:
11-17/09 18-24/09 25-26/09
Practice
Act 6:
18-24/09 27-29/10
Planning of Testing
activities for Act 7:
30-01/10
the Consolidation
development of The dates correspond to the year 2019.
collaborative
work Table 2: Development environments and resources of the steps of the
strategy:
Acts Interaction Environment Resources
1 Individual knowledge Bibliographies
2 Individual practical learning Formats
3-4 Individual collaborative learning Forum Step 3
5 Individual collaborative learning Activity guide
6 Collaborative monitoring and evaluation Delivery space

Leader: He is in charge of assuming the coordination of the development

of the activity in the forum. Within the process, supervises the assignment
Roles to of tasks and generates recommendations and clarifications regarding the
perform by the activity. In the end, it shares a document that must be fed by the
student in the members to generate the final consolidated group, performs its final
collaborative revision and delivery.
group Builder: Is responsible for supporting the management of the leader,
contributing to the organization of group work. Select and develop the
activity chosen to finally contribute to the final consolidation process.
It is suggested to use a model of action within teamwork, which allows to
Roles and
achieve the expected results through the joint action of all participants.
responsibility
The model of Leaders & Builders, allows one of the members to take the
for the delivery
role of leader (coordinator) and the others of builders, each builder
of products by
develops in parts his chosen or assigned task and contributes it in the
students
forum; within the process, the builders review the contributions of their
 peers; In the end, the leader shares the consolidated work with the
contributions of all the participants, achieving the final product.
The APA standards are the most used style of organization and
presentation of information. These are published under a manual that
allows you to have access to the ways in which a scientific article should
Use of be presented. Here you can find the most relevant aspects of the sixth
references edition of the APA Standards Manual, such as references, citations,
preparation and presentation of tables and figures, headings and
seriation, among others. You can check how to implement them by
going to http://normasapa.com/
In the agreement 029 of December 13, 2013, article 99, the mistakes that
infringe upon the academic order, among others, are the following:
paragraph e) “To plagiarize is to present as your own work the whole or
part of a writing, report, task or document of invention performed by
another person. It also implies the use of cites or lack of references, or
includes cites where there is no coincidence between them and the
reference” and paragraph f) ”To reproduce, or copy for profit, educational
Plagiarism
resources or results of research products, which have intellectual rights
policy
reserved for the University”.
The academic punishments that the student will face are:
a) In case of academic fraud proved in the academic work or evaluation,
the score achieved will be zero (0.0) without leading to disciplinary
measures.
b) In case of plagiarism proved in the academic work of any nature, the
score achieved will be zero (0.0), without leading to disciplinary
measures.

4. Evaluation rubric

Evaluation rubric
Activity type: Individual Activity ☒ Collaborative Activity ☒
Moment: Initial ☐ Unit 2, Intermediate: ☒ Final ☐
Assessed Performance levels of the individual activity Sco
Aspects High score Media score Low score re
Concepts on The student The student The student does
propagation of understands the understands some of not understand the
waves in concepts of wave the concepts of wave concepts of means 20
bounded open propagation in open propagation in open of propagation in
media media bounded by media bounded by open media bounded
 writing answers to the incomplete writing of by the non-writing of
questions asked. answers to the answers to the
questions asked. questions asked.
(up to 20 points) (up to 10 points) (up to 0 points)
The student The student does
The student correctly incorrectly calculates not calculate and
calculates the behavior the behavior does not apply the
Propagation of parameters of a wave parameters of a wave behavioral
normal that affects normally that affects normal on parameters of a
incidence waves on finite and infinite finite and infinite wave that affects 30
on finite and media, and applies media, or does not normally on finite
infinite media them in the solution of apply them in the and infinite media in
physical problems. solution of physical the solution of
problems. physical problems.
(up to 30 points) (up to 15 points) (up to 0 points)
The student The student does
The student correctly incorrectly calculates not calculate and
calculates the behavior the behavior does not apply the
Propagation of parameters of a wave parameters of a wave parameters of
oblique that obliquely affects that affects obliquely behavior of a wave
incidence waves infinite and infinite on finite and infinite that affects obliquely 30
on finite and media, and applies media, or does not on finite and infinite
infinite media them in the solution of apply them in the media in the solution
physical problems. solution of physical of physical
problems. problems.
(up to 30 points) (up to 15 points) (up to 0 points)
The student writes at The student writes 1 The student does
least 2 learning conclusion of learning not write learning
Comprehension conclusions that or does not correctly conclusions that
and application demonstrate the demonstrate the demonstrate the
of the understanding and understanding and comprehension and
characterization application of the application of the application of the 20
of waves in methods of methods of methods of
open media characterization of the characterization of characterization of
bounded waves in bounded the waves in bounded waves in bounded
open media. open media. open media.
(up to 20 points) (up to 10 points) (up to 0 points)
Performance levels of the collaborative activity Sco
Assessed Aspect
High score Media score Low score re
 The student The student does
The student shows
demonstrates not evidence the
low ability to work in
adequate capacity to ability to work in
groups and achieve
work in groups and groups and achieve
an organized
achieve an organized an organized
Teamwork collaborative final 10
collaborative final collaborative final
product, fulfilling the
product, fulfilling the product, complying
requested delivery
requested delivery with the requested
conditions.
conditions. delivery conditions.
(Up to 10 points) (Up to 5 points) (Up to 0 points)
Final score 110