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Barry_G said:Educate yourself. If you want to work out electric and magnetic fields for any distribution you need to use equations for point charges. That is Coulomb's law, Biot-Savart law and Lorentz force equations, for point charges, and then you integrate.
Coulomb's Law is derived from Maxwell's Equations (Gauss' Law for Electricity) under the assumption of static conditions (i.e. when \partial E / \partial t =0 and \partial B / \partial t =0).
The Biot-Savart Law is derived from Maxwell's Equations (Ampere's Law and Gauss' Law for Magnetism) also under the assumption of static conditions.
Coulomb's Law and the Biot-Savart Law are only valid when the electric and magnetic fields are not changing in time. Maxwell's Equations are more fundamental, and will describe the electric and magnetic fields under any conditions. The Lorentz Force Law will then tell you how a test particle placed in these fields will behave.
Barry_G said:Not even electromagnetic wave equation describes any waves.
I'm not really sure what you mean by that. It's a wave equation, so obviously it describes a wave.
Barry_G said:Nonsense.
Just because you say something is nonsense doesn't make it so. He showed you, step by step, how the linearity of Maxwell's Equations prove that external fields superimpose on the EM wave so that the wave itself is unaffected by the external fields.