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    Graduate Understanding the Electric Field of a Plane Wave: A Complex Vector Approach

    I think that equation was somewhat wrong. I think the EM field can be represented as a complex vector: A complex vector as in a 3d vector whose components are complex numbers : (a1 + i * b1) xhat + (a2 + i * b2) yhat + (a3 + i * b3) zhat where xhat, yhat, zhat are unit vectors along x, y, z...
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    Graduate Understanding the Electric Field of a Plane Wave: A Complex Vector Approach

    Hi I've working on a computer program where I need to calculate some electric fields. I am referring to a thesis which provides these formulas. For eg: The electric field for a ray(plane wave actually) at a distance s from the reference point: E(s) = E(0) * exp(-jks) where E(s) =...
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    Graduate Spherical wave in far field is a plane wave ?

    Is it true that we can consider a spherical wave in the far field (i.e. away from antenna, at a large distance) as a plane wave ? For a plane wave the electric field at a distance s is usually given as: E(s) = E(0) * exp(-jks) ----- (1) where k is the wave vector, s is the distance...