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Chapter 36 Problem 36.67

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Phased-Array Radar. In one common type of radar installation, a rotating antenna sweeps a radio beam around the sky. But in a phased-array radar system, the antennas remain stationary and the beam is swept electronically. To see how this is done, consider an array of antennas that are arranged along the horizontal at (The number is odd.) Each antenna emits radiation uniformly in all directions in the horizontal The antennas all emit radiation coherently, with the same amplitude and the same wavelength The relative phase of the emission from adjacent antennas can be varied, however. If the antenna at emits a signal that is given by as measured at a point next to the antenna, the antenna at emits a signal given by as measured at a point next to that antenna. The corresponding quantity for the antenna at is for the antennas at it is and so on. (a) If the inter- ference pattern at a distance from the antennas is large compared to and has a principal maximum at (that is, in the perpendicular to the line of the antennas). Show that if this is the only principal interference maximum in the angular range Hence this principal maximum describes a beam emitted in the direction As described in Section 36.4, if is large, the beam will have a large intensity and be quite narrow. (b) If show that the principal intensity maximum described in part (a) is located at where is measured in radians. Thus, by varying from positive to negative values and back again, which can easily be done electronically, the beam can be made to sweep back and forth around (c) A weather radar unit to be installed on an airplane emits radio waves at 8800 MHz. The unit uses 15 antennas in an array 28.0 cm long (from the antenna at one end of the array to the antenna at the other end). What must the maximum and minimum values of be (that is, the most positive and most negative values) if the radar beam is to sweep to the left or right of the airplanes direction of flight? Give your answer in radians.

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The first step in solving 36 problem number 67 trying to solve the problem we have to refer to the textbook question: Phased-Array Radar. In one common type of radar installation, a rotating antenna sweeps a radio beam around the sky. But in a phased-array radar system, the antennas remain stationary and the beam is swept electronically. To see how this is done, consider an array of antennas that are arranged along the horizontal at (The number is odd.) Each antenna emits radiation uniformly in all directions in the horizontal The antennas all emit radiation coherently, with the same amplitude and the same wavelength The relative phase of the emission from adjacent antennas can be varied, however. If the antenna at emits a signal that is given by as measured at a point next to the antenna, the antenna at emits a signal given by as measured at a point next to that antenna. The corresponding quantity for the antenna at is for the antennas at it is and so on. (a) If the inter- ference pattern at a distance from the antennas is large compared to and has a principal maximum at (that is, in the perpendicular to the line of the antennas). Show that if this is the only principal interference maximum in the angular range Hence this principal maximum describes a beam emitted in the direction As described in Section 36.4, if is large, the beam will have a large intensity and be quite narrow. (b) If show that the principal intensity maximum described in part (a) is located at where is measured in radians. Thus, by varying from positive to negative values and back again, which can easily be done electronically, the beam can be made to sweep back and forth around (c) A weather radar unit to be installed on an airplane emits radio waves at 8800 MHz. The unit uses 15 antennas in an array 28.0 cm long (from the antenna at one end of the array to the antenna at the other end). What must the maximum and minimum values of be (that is, the most positive and most negative values) if the radar beam is to sweep to the left or right of the airplanes direction of flight? Give your answer in radians.
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Title Sears and Zemansky's University Physics with Modern Physics 13 
Author Hugh D. Young; Roger A. Freedman; A. Lewis Ford
ISBN 9780321696861

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