Lecture Outline

• Electromagnetic Waves: Experimental

• Ampere’s Law Is Incomplete: Displacement Current

• Review of Wave Properties

• Electromagnetic Waves: Theory

  • Maxwell’s Equations contain the wave equation!
  • The velocity of electromagnetic waves = c
  • The relationship between E and B in an e-m wave
  • Energy in e-m waves: the Poynting vector

Text Reference: Chapter 32.1-4

Previous slide

Next slide

Back to first slide

View graphic version