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| May 31, 2016 at 22:49 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | I'm also not sure how the second paragraph is at all an answer. In any case, the distinction drawn by Jackson makes perfect sense to me: Snell's law is required simply to have a wave on one side match up with a wave on the other side with matching phases along the boundary at all times even when their speeds are different; transmission and reflection coefficients, and their interaction with polarization, on the other hand, require the application of Maxwell's equations in their boundary form to know how the system will respond. | |
| May 31, 2016 at 22:47 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | I disagree. Kinematics is, by etymology, the study of motion; restricting it to static situations is bizarre. I have yet to see either of those terms used in the literature in the senses you state, though maybe you can provide references. | |
| May 31, 2016 at 22:40 | history | answered | John Fistere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |