How is Angular Momentum Conserved in Electromagnetic Fields?

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Question1: Discuss the conservation of angular momentum for a macroscopic system of sources and Electromagnetic fields in a uniform isotropic dispersionless medium of permittivity epsilon and permeability mu.
Question2: Show that the differential form of the conservation law is:

∂/∂t(Lfield + Lmech) + div(M) = 0

where L-field = μεx x (Ex H)

and M = T x x

T is the Maxwells stress tensor

I am wanting help with both these questions
1st question: Would like some help to get started such as a couple of bullet points
2nd question: Not sure where to start

Thanks

GM
 
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The derivation for linear momentum is in most textbooks. Just repeat it for rXP. I suggest you look at "Classical Electromagnetism" by Franklin, which shows when to use E,D,B,H.
 
To solve this, I first used the units to work out that a= m* a/m, i.e. t=z/λ. This would allow you to determine the time duration within an interval section by section and then add this to the previous ones to obtain the age of the respective layer. However, this would require a constant thickness per year for each interval. However, since this is most likely not the case, my next consideration was that the age must be the integral of a 1/λ(z) function, which I cannot model.
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