Timeline for Can we distinguish electric fields from magnetic fields if the whole electromagnetic field is unpolarized?
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| Apr 24, 2023 at 10:34 | comment | added | SnoopyKid | So, perpendicular is not the right word then because unpolarized EM field have electric and magnetic fields that pointed to random directions. Correct me if there is a mistake. | |
| Apr 24, 2023 at 7:55 | comment | added | naturallyInconsistent | Below in a comment you said that magnetic fields point perpendicular to electric fields. This is NOT necessarily the case, even if it is what we usually mean for light. Polarised light is very easy to define and visualise, but if you want to define unpolarised light, you would have to resort to maths, even if it is relatively simple maths. | |
| Apr 24, 2023 at 2:38 | comment | added | J. Murray | What does it mean for the field to be "unpolarized"? | |
| Apr 24, 2023 at 2:17 | answer | added | hyportnex | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 24, 2023 at 2:02 | comment | added | JEB | you can't draw an unpolarized field, since it has no direction to point. | |
| Apr 24, 2023 at 1:25 | comment | converted from answer | John Doty | When asking such a question, consider what sort of experiment could answer it. Better yet, do the experiment. Electric field sensors and magnetic field sensors are different things... | |
| Apr 24, 2023 at 1:20 | history | asked | SnoopyKid | CC BY-SA 4.0 |