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Phase jump at medium border with EM wave
I have been reading a book about electrodynamics and I have stumbled upon the following matter which is, to me , contradictory. When the electromagnetic wave changes medium, it is subject to certain ...
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How to use the boundary conditions of electromagnetic waves to derive the refraction law of light?
In my book it says we can use the boundary conditions of electromagnetic waves to derive the refraction law of light. How to derive it?
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What happens to light as it enters a denser medium?
I am a first year undergrad student doing optometry (never done any physics before in my life :( ). I got a question asking what happens when light enters a denser medium. I was told that the ...
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Why it is necessary that phase of incident, reflected and refracted wave must equal at the interface of two medium?
1.Why it is necessary that phase of incident, reflected and refracted wave must equal at the interface of two medium to satisfy the boundary conditions at the interface?
2. According to boundary ...
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How does one show specific thickness and wavelength determine full transmission of electromagnetic waves?
How does one show that thickness and wavelength determine the full transmission between two different dielectric media if the boundary condition equations between two dielectric media are independent ...
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