Answer to Question #122260 in Electricity and Magnetism for Dheeraj

Question

A plane e.m. wave is travelling in an lossless dielectric medium having μ = 2, ε = 3
and has peak value electric field intensity of 6 V/m . The velocity of wave is

Answer 1

As per the question

$\mu=2$ &$\epsilon =3$

We know that $v=\frac{1}{\sqrt{\mu\mu_o \epsilon \epsilon_o}}=\frac{c}{\sqrt{\mu \epsilon}}$

where, $\frac{1}{\sqrt{\mu_o \epsilon_o}}=c$

Each terms have its usual meaning,

Now,

$\Rightarrow v=\frac{3\times 10^{8}m/sec}{\sqrt{6}}$

$\Rightarrow v = 1.22 \times 10^{8} m/sec$