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Activities guide and evaluation rubric – Task 2

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:
March 13, 2020 April 08, 2020
Competence to develop:
The student applies the concepts of physics and electromagnetism, to determine the behavior
of electromagnetic wave when propagated in bounded open media, using mathematical
methods to solve application exercises.
Topics to develop:
- Propagation modes of electromagnetic waves.
- Propagation in bounded open media.
- Reflection and refraction of waves.
- Snell's Law.
Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop
This activity called Task 2, is individual and collaborative, for its development you must
follow the 6 acts presented below:
Step 1: Explore the academic resource described in the next section of this document
"Activities to develop".
Step 2: Download the “Annex 3 - Delivery format – Task 2” found in the collaborative
learning environment in the "Activities guide and evaluation rubric – Task 2 -
Electromagnetic waves in bounded open media" folder.
Step 3: Individually, based on the exploration performed, answer the 5 questions
proposed in the next section "Activities to develop".
Step 4: Individually, based on the exploration performed, solve the 3 proposed application
exercises. You must show the procedures.
Step 5: Each student must complete the application in its individual delivery format,
verifying the requirements of the evaluation rubric.
Step 6: In the 3 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+ = 120𝑚𝑊/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+ = 120𝑚𝑊/𝑚2 , coming from a
wave generator located 12𝑐𝑚 from the wall, which impinges from the air
(𝜂1 = 120𝜋 𝛺) perpendicularly on a wall with an intrinsic impedance 𝜂2 = 𝐶𝐶𝐶 𝛺 and
20𝑐𝑚 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  Collaborative learning environment – Task 2 Forum.
for the  Knowledge environment - Unit 2.
development  Monitoring and evaluation environment – Task 2.

Individual:
Each student, using the Delivery Format - Task 2 found in the Practical
Learning Environment, gradually presents the activity in the Task 2
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 Task 2 - 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 Task 2 forum.
The leader must take the final works of each student and generate a
Products to compressed file .rar or .zip with the name Task 2 and deliver it in the
deliver by Monitoring and evaluation environment in the Task 2 space.
student

Figure 4: Group consolidation example.

 3. General guidelines for the collaborative work

Schedule of activities:
Table 1: Development Schedule of Task 2:
Steps Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4
Steps 1-2:
13to20/03 20to27/03
Exploration
Steps 3-4:
20to27/03 27to03/04
Practice
Step 5:
Planning of 27to03/04 03to05/04
Testing
activities for
Step 6:
the 06to08/04
Consolidation
development
The dates correspond to the year 2020.
of
collaborative
Table 2: Development environments and resources of the steps of the
work
strategy:
Steps Interaction Environment Resources
1 Individual knowledge Bibliographies
2 Individual practical learning Formats
3-4 Individual collaborative learning Task 2 forum
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 of
Roles to
tasks and generates recommendations and clarifications regarding the
perform by
activity. In the end, it shares a document that must be fed by the members
the student
to generate the final consolidated group, performs its final revision and
in the
delivery.
collaborative
Builder: Is responsible for supporting the management of the leader,
group
contributing to the organization of group work. Select and develop the activity
chosen to finally contribute to the final consolidation process.
Roles and It is suggested to use a model of action within teamwork, which allows to
responsibilit achieve the expected results through the joint action of all participants.
y for the The model of Leaders & Builders, allows one of the members to take the role
delivery of of leader (coordinator) and the others of builders, each builder develops in
products by parts his chosen or assigned task and contributes it in the forum; within the
students 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 be presented. Here
Use of
you can find the most relevant aspects of the sixth edition of the APA
references
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
Plagiarism no coincidence between them and the reference” and paragraph f) ”To
policy reproduce, or copy for profit, educational resources or results of research
products, which have intellectual rights 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
The student The student does
The student
understands some of not understand the
Concepts on understands the
the concepts of wave concepts of means
propagation of concepts of wave
propagation in open of propagation in
waves in propagation in open
media bounded by open media bounded 20
bounded open media bounded by
incomplete writing of by the non-writing of
media writing answers to the
answers to the answers to the
questions asked.
questions asked. questions asked.
(up to 20 points) (up to 15 points) (up to 4 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 20 points) (up to 5 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 20 points) (up to 5 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 15 points) (up to 4 points)
Performance levels of the collaborative activity Sco
Assessed Aspect
High score Media score Low score re
Students demonstrate Students demonstrate Students do not
adequate ability to low ability to work in demonstrate the
Teamwork work in groups and groups or not create ability to work in a 10
create an organized an organized group, do not create
collaborative final collaborative final an organized
product, meeting the product or meeting collaborative final
delivery conditions the delivery product and do not
using the English conditions using the meet the delivery
language. English language. conditions using the
English language.
(Up to 10 points) (Up to 6 points) (Up to 3 points)
Final score 110