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On non-monochromatic plane-wave solutions of Maxwell's equations

Classical Physics 2025-03-17 v2

Abstract

In electrodynamics courses and textbooks the properties of plane electromagnetic waves in both conducting and non-conducting media are typically studied from the point of view of the prototype case of a monochromatic plane wave. In this article the more general, non-monochromatic case is examined, which better exploits the independence of the Maxwell equations and offers new insights in the study of electromagnetic waves.

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@article{arxiv.2003.06510,
  title  = {On non-monochromatic plane-wave solutions of Maxwell's equations},
  author = {C. J. Papachristou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.06510},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Enhanced and updated version; 13 pages; see also arXiv:1607.06079