Understanding Snell's Law and Maxwell's Equations with EM Waves

[3.14lwy]

what is the snell's law?

and how to show this
n = sin(i)/sin(r)

(where
n = refractive index
i = angle of incident
r = angle of refraction )
??

thank you!

 

[spacetime]

snell's law

You can derive snell's law from Fermat's principle of least time

www.physics.yorku.ca/undergrad_programme/highsch/SNELL3.html[/URL]

Another derivation can be done using Huygen's principle.



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[Claude Bile]

Or you can just solve Maxwell's equations with appropriate boundary conditions.

Claude.

 

[snbose]

Or you can just solve Maxwell's equations with appropriate boundary conditions.

Claude.

Righto!

Maxwell's equations on EM Waves will provide the most elegent proof of Snells Law, Laws of Reflection and all the rest. You can read it from David Griffits "Intro ...to Electrodynamics".