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Light deflection by inhomogeneous electric fields

This is a screenshot of the Noble Prize organization website on the biography of the Noble laureate Johannes Stark. And this is what I found worthy to ask about his work. In the last lines of his ...
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A program to model classical EM field?

As per title, i would like to ask if there exists a program where i can create an arbitrary wire with an arbitrary current and get a visualization of electric and magnetic fields around it. The ...
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Developing FEM/FDTD for Computational Electromagnetics

I am looking to create my own code/model for modeling electromagnetic problems via Finite Element Method and Finite Difference Time Domain method. I have been reading through the literature and ...
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What is a reference for a practical experiment for existence electric field wave and magnetic field wave in an electromagnetic wave?

Maxwell equations lead to simultaneous perpendicular oscillations of electric field as well as magnetic field with same amplitude and “wavelength”. But, they do not guarantee any propagation of these ...
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The use of complex fields in electromagnetism

Virtually all treatments of electromagnetic wave propagation, and in particular of monochromatic plane waves, use basic complex analysis to simplify calculations. I am comfortable with these ...
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Problem-solving books on electrodynamics

What are the best books on the problem-solving of classical electrodynamics exercises? I looking for books that help me to solve Jackson and Griffiths exercises, i.e. books on the problem-solving of ...
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Introduction to electromagnetic waves with easy math

My father would like to understand the physics of light (let's say Maxwell's theory, the wave-particle duality and special relativity) and he's asked me what book he should read. He's a quick learner, ...
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Quantum Derivation of Electric Susceptibility

I've spent quite a while looking into classical models for electric susceptibility, including some semi-classical extensions to the idea, based around concepts such as effective electron mass. However,...
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How can we excite transverse magnetic or electric ( TM or TE) modes on metallic mediums?

I would be very thankful if someone can point me at references on explaining theories of excitations for transverse magnetic or electric modes. In engineering, the literature has plenty of papers on ...
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Is there a formalism on EM waves that uses only coordinate free calculations?

This book for example: Theory of Electromagnetic Waves: A Coordinate-free Approach, by Hollis C. Chen (McGraw-Hill, 1983); Amazon link, only I can't find it online without a registration. In ...