Electromagnetic Waves This week we will study electromagnetic waves We will see that light is an electromagnetic wave Electromagnetic waves have electric and magnetic fields Physics for Scientists Engineers 2 We will see Maxwell s Equations that describe electromagnetic phenomena We will see that the speed of light is constant and can be related to 0 and 0 Spring Semester 2005 Lecture 31 We will see that electromagnetic waves can transport energy and momentum Electromagnetic waves can be polarized March 18 2005 Physics for Scientists Engineers 2 1 March 18 2005 Induced Magnetic Fields Physics for Scientists Engineers 2 2 Circular Capacitor We have seen that a changing magnetic field induces and electric field To illustrate induced magnetic fields consider the example of a circular parallel plate capacitor Faraday s Law of Induction tells us We charge the capacitor and disconnect the battery d E ds dt B In a similar manner a changing electric field induces a magnetic field Maxwell s Law of Induction tells us B ds 0 0 d E dt where B is the magnetic field induced in a closed loop by a changing magnetic field by a changing electric flux E in that loop March 18 2005 Physics for Scientists Engineers 2 3 The charge is constant and the electric field between the plates is constant There is no magnetic field March 18 2005 Physics for Scientists Engineers 2 4 Circular Capacitor 2 Circular Capacitor 3 Now let s consider a constant magnetic field Now let s increase the charge as a function of time Now let s increase the magnitude of the magnetic while keeping the magnetic field uniform in space and in the same direction An electric field is induced as shown by the red loops The magnitude of the electric field is constant along each loop and the direction is tangential to each loop A magnetic field is induced as indicated by the blue lines in the direction indicated Note that the induced electric field points in the opposite direction from the magnetic field induced by a changing electric field The magnitude of the induced magnetic field is the same along each line and the direction is tangential to the line March 18 2005 Physics for Scientists Engineers 2 5 March 18 2005 Physics for Scientists Engineers 2 Circular Capacitor 4 Displacement Current Looking at the Maxwell Ampere Law We now recall Ampere s Law B ds 0ienc d E 0ienc dt d E one can see that the quantity 0 dt B ds 0 0 relating the integral around a loop of the dot product of the magnetic field and the integration direction to the current flowing through the loop We see that we can combine Maxwell s Law of Induction and Ampere s Law to produce a description of magnetic fields created by moving charges and by changing electric fields This term has been called the displacement current Which is called the Maxwell Ampere Law not surprisingly Note however that no actual current is being displaced id 0 d B ds 0 0 dt E 0ienc For the case of constant current such as current flowing in a conductor this equation reduces to Ampere s Law For the case of a changing electric field without current flowing such as the electric field between the plates of a capacitor this equation reduces to the Maxwell Law of Induction March 18 2005 6 Physics for Scientists Engineers 2 must have the units of current d E dt We can then rewrite the Maxwell Ampere Law as B ds i 0 7 March 18 2005 d ienc Physics for Scientists Engineers 2 8 Displacement Current 2 Displacement Current 3 We can get the current by taking the time derivative of the charge Now let s consider a parallel plate capacitor with circular plates as we did earlier i We place the capacitor in a circuit in which a current i is flowing while the capacitor is charging dq dE 0 A dt dt Assuming that the electric field between the plates of the capacitor is uniform we can obtain an expression for the displacement current id 0 d AE d E dE 0 0 A dt dt dt The current in the circuit is the same as the displacement current id Although there is no actual current flowing between the plates of the capacitor in the sense that no actual charges flow across the capacitor gap from one plate to the other we can use the concept of displacement current to calculate the induced magnetic field For a parallel plate capacitor with area A we can relate the charge q to the electric field E q 0 AE March 18 2005 Physics for Scientists Engineers 2 9 March 18 2005 Displacement Current 4 Physics for Scientists Engineers 2 Maxwell s Equations To calculate the magnetic field between the two plates of the capacitor we assume that the volume between the two plates can be replaced with a conductor of radius R carrying current id Thus from chapter 27 we know that the magnetic field at a distance from the center of the capacitor is given by i B 0 d2 r 2 R Outside the capacitor we can treat the system as a current carrying wire The Maxwell Ampere Law completes the explanation of the four equations known as Maxwell s Equations that describe electromagnetic phenomena We have used these equations to describe electric fields magnetic fields and circuits We now will apply these equations to electromagnetic waves Name Gauss Law for Electric Fields Equation qenc E dA 0 Gauss Law for Magnetic Fields B dA 0 Faraday s Law E ds Ampere Maxwell Law B ds The magnetic field is i B 0 d 2 r March 18 2005 d B dt 0 0 Physics for Scientists Engineers 2 10 11 March 18 2005 d E 0 ienc dt Physics for Scientists Engineers 2 Description Relates the net electric flux to the net enclosed electric charge States that the net magnetic flux is zero no magnetic charge Relates the induced electric field to the changing magnetic flux Relates the induced magnetic field to the changing electric flux and to the current 12 Wave Solutions to Maxwell s Equations Wave Solutions to Maxwell Maxwell s Equations 2 Implicit in our Ansatz is the result that our electromagnetic wave is traveling in the x direction It is possible to derive a general wave equation from Maxwell s Equations Here we will assume that electromagnetic waves propagating in vacuum no moving charges or currents have a certain form and show that this form satisfies Maxwell s Equations We will make the Ansatz that the magnitude of the electric and magnetic fields in electromagnetic waves are given by the form E r t Emax sin kx t B r t Bmax sin kx t We assume that the electric field is in the y direction and the magnetic field is in the z direction where k 2 is the angular wave number and 2 f is the angular
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