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Match the following lists in terms of radiation resistances of various antennas :

List – IList – II  
a. Short vertical monopolei. \(31200\left(\dfrac{\text{Area of Loop}}{\lambda^{2}}\right)^{2}\)
b. Small loop antennaii. \(80\pi^{2}\left(\dfrac{L}{\lambda}\right)^{2}\)
c. Dipole antennaiii. 73 ohms
d. Radiation resistance of half wave dipoleiv. \(400\left(\dfrac{\text{Physical height}}{\lambda}\right)^{2}\)

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The correct answer is

a-iv, b-i, c-ii, d-iii

Read the variable in each expression — each formula names the dimension that belongs to its own antenna, so the matching can be done by inspection.

d → iii. Half-wave dipole — 73 Ω. The one pure number in the list, and the most quoted figure in antenna theory. It is why 75 Ω coaxial cable exists: the feeder is chosen to match this radiation resistance so that the antenna is matched and reflections vanish. (The full impedance is 73 + j42.5 Ω, made purely resistive by trimming the dipole about 5 % shorter than λ/2.)

a → iv. Short vertical monopole — \(400(h/\lambda)^{2}\). A monopole is described by its physical height above the ground plane, and "physical height" appears in only this expression. The monopole is the image-formed half of a dipole, so its radiation resistance is half the dipole value — which is exactly why the constant 400 is (nearly) half the dipole's 800.

c → ii. Dipole antenna — \(80\pi^{2}(L/\lambda)^{2}\). This is the short (Hertzian) dipole formula, written in terms of the overall length L. Note \(80\pi^{2}\approx790\), twice the monopole constant, confirming the factor-of-two relation.

b → i. Small loop — \(31200\left(A/\lambda^{2}\right)^{2}\). The only formula containing an area, and the only one where the bracket is squared over λ2 — a loop radiates as a magnetic dipole, so its strength depends on the enclosed area rather than on a length.

What the numbers tell you. All the small-antenna formulas vary as (size/λ)2, so radiation resistance collapses as the antenna is made electrically small: a monopole of height λ/20 has \(400/400=1\ \Omega\). With ohmic loss resistance comparable to that, the radiation efficiency

\(\eta=\dfrac{R_{rad}}{R_{rad}+R_{loss}}\)

becomes poor — the fundamental reason small antennas are inefficient and hard to match.

Hence, the correct matching is a-iv, b-i, c-ii, d-iii.

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