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Activities guide and evaluation rubric – Task 1

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 Teoría 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 1, 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:
February 15, 2020 March 12, 2020
Competence to develop:
The student applies the concepts of physics and electromagnetism, to determine the behavior
of electromagnetic wave when propagated in open media, using mathematical methods to
solve application exercises.
Topics to develop:
- Electromagnetic waves in conductors, dielectrics and insulators.
- Propagation in open media.
Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop
This activity called Task 1, is individual and collaborative, for its development you must
follow the 7 steps presented below:
Step 1: Explore the academic resource described in the next section of this document
"Activities to develop".
Step 2: Download the “Annex 2 - Delivery format – Task 1” found in the collaborative
learning environment in the "Activity guide and evaluation rubric - Task 1 -
Electromagnetic waves in 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: Select 1 of the proposed propagation medium in the application exercise of the
"Activities to develop" section and announce it in the "Task 1" forum.
Step 5: Individually, based on the exploration performed, solve the 5 points of the
application exercise, using the chosen propagation medium. The procedures performed
must be shown.
Step 6: Each student must complete the application in its individual delivery format,
verifying the requirements of the evaluation rubric.
Step 7: 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 1, the
bibliographical reference of Chen, W. (2005), on pages 513-519, 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 do you mean propagation medium open for electromagnetic waves?
2. Within the propagation mediums, what is mean by the tangent of losses?
3. Of what physical variables does the value of the tangent of losses depend?
4. How are the propagation medium classified from the tangent of losses?
5. What are the propagation parameters of the waves through a medium?
Application exercise:
The following 5-step exercise describes the method to characterize an electromagnetic wave
when propagating in an open environment, for which, each student must choose 1
propagation media of the 5 proposed in Table 1 and announce it within the forum Task 1
to avoid repetition.

Table 1: Conductivity 𝛔 and electrical permittivity 𝛆𝐫 of some media.

Media 𝛔 [𝐒⁄𝐦] 𝛆𝐫 [ ]
1. Copper 5.80𝑥107 1
2. Sea water 4 80
3. Vegetable soil 1.00𝑥10−2 14
4. Dry soil 1.00𝑥10−4 3
5. Sweet water 1.00𝑥10−3 80
𝛆𝐨 = 8.8542x10−12 𝐶 2 /N𝑚2
 1. Calculate the tangent of losses Tan (δ) and the angle of losses δ of the medium chosen
in Table 1, if through it travel an electromagnetic wave E of frequency 𝑓 = 𝐶𝐶𝐶 𝑀𝐻𝑧.
Note that 𝐶𝐶𝐶 are the first 3 digits of your identification number:

𝜎 𝜎
𝑇𝑎𝑛(𝛿) = =
𝜔𝜀 2𝜋𝑓εr ε𝑜

2. According to the result obtained in point 1, classify the behavior of the chosen medium
according to one of the 5 options in Table 2:

Table 2: Classification of propagation media.

Media Tan(δ) δ [°]
1. Perfect dielectrics (Not dissipative) Tan(δ) = 0 δ = 0°
2. Good insulators (Lost low dielectric) 0 < Tan(δ) <= 0,1 0° < δ <= 6°
3. Dissipative dielectrics (Dielectrics with losses) 0,1 < Tan(δ) <= 10 6° < δ <= 84°
4. Good conductors (Good conductors) Tan(δ) > 10 84°< δ < 90°
5. Perfect conductors (Perfect conductors) Tan(δ) >>> 10 δ = 90°

3. According to the classification obtained in point 2 and using Table 3 shown below,
calculate the following propagation parameters of the wave in the chosen medium:
a. Propagation constant  (gamma).
b. Attenuation constant  (Alpha).
c. Phase constant  (Beta).
d. Intrinsic impedance  (Eta).

Table 3: Propagation parameters in open media.

Not Lost low Dielectrics with Good
Parameter
dissipative dielectric losses conductors
 𝑗𝜔√𝜇𝜀 𝑗𝜔√𝜇𝜀 √𝑗𝜔𝜇(𝜎 + 𝑗𝜔𝜀) √𝑗𝜔𝜎𝜇𝑜

 0 𝜎𝜂⁄2 𝑅𝑒() √𝜋𝑓𝜎𝜇𝑜

 𝜔√𝜇𝜀 𝜔√𝜇𝜀 𝐼𝑚() √𝜋𝑓𝜎𝜇𝑜

 √𝜇⁄𝜀 √𝜇⁄𝜀 √𝑗𝜔𝜇⁄(𝜎 + 𝑗𝜔𝜀) √𝑗𝜔𝜇𝑜 ⁄𝜎

 4. According to the results obtained in point 3 and using the following equations, calculate
the propagation characteristics of the wave in the chosen medium:
a. Propagation speed 𝒗𝒑 .
b. Wavelength 𝝀.
c. Speed factor 𝒇𝒗 .
d. Refractive index 𝒏.

5. According to the parameters obtained in the previous points and knowing that the
maximum value of the E wave is 𝟏𝟐𝟎𝑽/𝒎, calculate:
e. The penetration depth of the 𝜹𝒑 wave in the medium.
f. The power 𝑷𝒐 transmitted by the wave in the medium.
g. The %𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔 of wave amplitude per unit length.

Environment • Collaborative learning environment - Task 1 forum.

for the • Knowledge environment - Unit 1.
development • Monitoring and evaluation environment – Task 1.

Individual:
Each student, using the Delivery Format – Task 1 found in the Practical
Learning Environment, gradually presents the activity in the Task 1 forum
until completing the following structure:
1. Cover.
Products to 2. Introduction (indicate what is in the document).
deliver by 3. Content. (Answer to questions and exercises).
student 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 1 - 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 Taks 1 forum.
The leader must take the final works of each student and generate a
compressed file .rar or .zip with the name Taks 1 and deliver it in the
Monitoring and evaluation environment in the Task 1 space.

Figure 1: Group consolidation example.

3. General guidelines for the collaborative work

Schedule of activities:
Table 4: Development Schedule of Task 1:
Steps Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4
Planning of Steps 1-2:
15to22/02 22to29/02
activities for Exploration
the Steps 3-4-5:
22to29/02 29to06/03
development Practice
of Step 6:
29to06/03 06to09/03
collaborative Testing
work Step 7:
10to12/03
Consolidation
The dates correspond to the year 2020.
 Table 5: Development environments and resources of the steps of the
strategy:
Step Interaction Environment Resources
1 Individual knowledge Bibliographies
2 Individual practical learning Formats
3 Individual collaborative learning Activity guide
456 Individual collaborative learning Task 1 forum
7 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.
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.
responsibilit The model of Leaders & Builders, allows one of the members to take the role
y for the of leader (coordinator) and the others of builders, each builder develops in
delivery of parts his chosen or assigned task and contributes it in the forum; within the
products by process, the builders review the contributions of their peers; In the end, the
students 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:
Plagiarism paragraph e) “To plagiarize is to present as your own work the whole or part
policy 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 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 1, Intermediate: ☒ Final ☐
Assessed Performance levels of the individual activity Sco
Aspects High score Media score Low score re
The student The student The student does not
understands concepts understands understand the
Concepts about about wave concepts about wave concepts about
wave propagation in open propagation in open propagation in open
20
propagation in media by writing media by writing media for not writing
open media 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 correctly The student
The student does not
classifies the incorrectly classifies
classify the
propagation media the propagation
propagation media
Classification of based on the tangent media based on the
based on the tangent
the propagation of losses and applies tangent of losses 20
of losses within the
media them in the solution within the solution
solution of physical
of physical problems of physical problems
problems of waves.
of waves. of waves.
(up to 20 points) (up to 15 points) (up to 4 points)
The student correctly The student The student does not
calculates the incorrectly calculates calculate the
Calculation of propagation the propagation propagation
propagation parameters of the parameters of the parameters of the 30
parameters waves and applies waves within the waves within the
them in the solution solution of physical solution of physical
of physical problems. problems. problems.
 (up to 30 points) (up to 20 points) (up to 5 points)
The student writes a
The student writes at The student does not
learning conclusion
least 2 learning write learning
or does not correctly
Understanding conclusions that conclusions that
demonstrate the
and applying the demonstrate the demonstrate the
understanding and
method of understanding and understanding and
application of the 30
characterization application of the application of the
method of
of the waves in method of method of
characterization of
open media characterization of characterization of
waves in open
waves in open media. waves in open media.
media.
(up to 30 points) (up to 20 points) (up to 5 points)
Performance levels of the collaborative activity Sco
Assessed Aspect
High score Media score Low score re
Students Students Students do not
demonstrate demonstrate low demonstrate the
adequate ability to ability to work in ability to work in a
work in groups and groups or not create group, do not create
create an organized an organized an organized
Teamwork collaborative final collaborative final collaborative final 10
product, meeting the product or meeting product and do not
delivery conditions the delivery meet the delivery
using the English conditions using the conditions using the
language. English language. English language.
(Up to 10 points) (Up to 6 points) (Up to 3 points)
Final score 110