https://gdpark.blog/tags/maxwells-equations/Recent content in Maxwell's Equations on gdpark.blogHugoenFri, 07 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/electromagnetism-24-faraday-s-law-induced-electric-field/Thu, 23 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/electromagnetism-24-faraday-s-law-induced-electric-field/Using Stokes’ theorem to connect changing magnetic flux and the electric field, we derive ∇×E = −∂B/∂t and apply it to a worked example!https://gdpark.blog/posts/electromagnetism-26-maxwell-s-equations/Tue, 28 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/electromagnetism-26-maxwell-s-equations/We review all the basic relations we’ve built up so far — curl E, div B, D, H, and all that — and finally head toward Maxwell’s equations~~https://gdpark.blog/posts/electromagnetism-27-the-poynting-vector/Wed, 29 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/electromagnetism-27-the-poynting-vector/We’re uncovering the Poynting vector — a quick dive into electromagnetic field energy and conservation laws before jumping into electromagnetic waves!https://gdpark.blog/posts/electromagnetism-29-electromagnetic-waves/Mon, 03 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/electromagnetism-29-electromagnetic-waves/We stumble through Maxwell’s equations, take a random curl or two, and somehow end up deriving the wave equations for E and B — hehehe!https://gdpark.blog/posts/electromagnetism-31-reflection-and-transmission-of-normally-incident-electromagn/Tue, 04 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/electromagnetism-31-reflection-and-transmission-of-normally-incident-electromagn/We dig into what happens when an EM wave hits the boundary between two linear media, using Maxwell’s boundary conditions to work out reflection and transmission!https://gdpark.blog/posts/electromagnetism-33-electromagnetic-waves-in-conductors-absorption-and-dispersio/Fri, 07 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/electromagnetism-33-electromagnetic-waves-in-conductors-absorption-and-dispersio/We crack open Maxwell’s equations inside conductors (J ≠ 0 this time!) and mix in Ohm’s law with the continuity equation to see what happens to free charge density.