Plane Wave Solution — Study Resources & PYQs
Plane wave solutions to electromagnetic wave equations.
- Estimated study time: 30 minutes
Study resources
- NPTEL EM Theory - Week 7 (wave equation, plane EM waves, energy carried) (Article) — Week 7 solves the wave equations for the plane-wave case and gets c = 1/sqrt(mu0 eps0).
- Electromagnetic Theory (EE) - Week 6, IIT Kanpur (Article) — Covers uniform plane waves from an engineering angle, including propagation in dielectrics and conductors.
- University of Maryland - Maxwell's Equations: Wave Equation & Plane Wave Solutions (PDF) (Article) — MIT supplementary notes deriving the 3D wave equation for vacuum EM fields from Maxwell's equations and finding the general plane-wave solution.
- MIT - Lecture 09: Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Waves (PDF) (Article) — MIT lecture notes deriving the EM wave equation from Maxwell's equations and discussing basic wave properties.
Plane Wave Solution previous year questions
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