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URGENT!
Hi, I have a couple of urgent problems which are listed below. I am not sure what to do in either of them! If someone could help me as soon as possible that would be great!
Cheers
Problems:
1. Consider a linearly polarised plane wave incident normally on a slab of material that absorbs it completely. Use the Maxwell stress tensor to show that the pressure exerted on th screen is = to the energy density of the incoming field. Check that this agrees with the simpler method of using the momentum density of the field
2. Two charges of q at a distance r repel each other according to Coulomb's Law. Choose a suitable surface sorrounding one of the charges and calculate F by integration of the Mawell stress tensor
Hi, I have a couple of urgent problems which are listed below. I am not sure what to do in either of them! If someone could help me as soon as possible that would be great!
Cheers
Problems:
1. Consider a linearly polarised plane wave incident normally on a slab of material that absorbs it completely. Use the Maxwell stress tensor to show that the pressure exerted on th screen is = to the energy density of the incoming field. Check that this agrees with the simpler method of using the momentum density of the field
2. Two charges of q at a distance r repel each other according to Coulomb's Law. Choose a suitable surface sorrounding one of the charges and calculate F by integration of the Mawell stress tensor
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