Timeline for In electrodynamics, is the electric field always perpendicular to the magnetic field? if so, is there a simple way to prove this?
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| Jan 29, 2018 at 5:59 | comment | added | Mahlomola Daniel Cwele | @SteveByrnes... To be honest, those three seem to me to be perfectly compatible with each other. All you need to assume is that the electric and magnetic fields both satisfy the Maxwell equations. If you have found an example where they do not, they you have more that a single set of sources. The "sources" in question are the current density and the charge desity, as demanded by the maxwell equations. I have made this very clear in the question. | |
| Jan 28, 2018 at 18:44 | comment | added | Steve Byrnes | Can you be clearer about the sources? You mention 3 seemingly incompatible things here: (1) "Making no assumptions about the sources", (2) "Single source", (3) "Single set of sources". Which of those are you really asking about? | |
| Jan 28, 2018 at 14:49 | history | edited | Mahlomola Daniel Cwele | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 28, 2018 at 14:26 | answer | added | freecharly | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 28, 2018 at 14:06 | answer | added | Philip Wood | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 28, 2018 at 14:01 | comment | added | Jan Bos | You can only proof they're perpendicular for a single plane wave. The sources to vanish is not enough. See: physics.stackexchange.com/questions/61072/… | |
| Jan 28, 2018 at 13:51 | answer | added | Steve Byrnes | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 28, 2018 at 13:42 | history | asked | Mahlomola Daniel Cwele | CC BY-SA 3.0 |