Graduated 1974 Worcester Polytechnic Inst. with BS in physics followed in 1976 with an MS for work in laser light scattering. Ph.D. in 1984 University of Wisconsin, Madison for work in polarization measurements in light ion nuclear reactions. Worked mostly in aerospace some years in the semiconductor capital equipment business. Retired from aerospace gig in 2015.
In the previous insights article (How to Use Duality in Computational Electromagnetic Problems), I covered some uniqueness theorems for the Riemann-Silberstein vector, ##F=E+iB##, for time-harmonic fields. We showed that the boundary value, ##f##, completely determines the vector field throughout the volume. In this article, I’d like to step through constructing a numerical algorithm for finding…
Some weeks ago I happened across a post that caught my eye. Dale asked a question about the number of photons in an electromagnetic field. His question was answered in full but what caught my attention in the discussion was seeing a familiar friend; the rather odd field combination, ##E+iB## [1]. The impetus for Dale’s…