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EM II Notes 2014_11_23: Homework sketches

Just a few notes on how to proceed on the penultimate homework of the semester. We're to show that the solutions for the 30/60/90 triangular waveguide given in the last homework set will also work for a waveguide that's formed from an equilateral traingle.  The three corners of the equilateral traingle are located at $\left(x,y\right) = \left(0, 0\right)$, $\left(x,y\right) = \left(a, a/\sqrt{3}\right)$, and $\left(x,y\right) = \left(a, -a/\sqrt{3}\right)$. This falls out immediately from last week's homeowrk.  Because the sine function is peiodic in $\pi$ over the domain from $\left(-\infty, \infty\right)$, the solution given last week in terms of sines will still evaluate to zero on the wall that falls at negative $y$. coordites.  The positive $x$ coordinates of the functions will evaluate to 0 on the wall in the same manner they did before???  There's an issue here.  It's products of the $x$ and $y$ sinusoids that all sum to zero.  These will need t...