Electromagnetic Wave Scattering by Conducting Sphere
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Electromagnetic waves can be scattered by electrical conductors. Consider a linearly polarized plane wave, with electric field in the direction and incident in the direction on a perfectly conducting sphere of radius . The electric and magnetic fields of the incoming wave, expressed in Cartesian coordinates, are and , where ( and are the light velocity and impedance, respectively). The scattered fields and are best expressed in spherical coordinates , using Legendre functions and spherical Hankel functions and taking account of the boundary conditions. The total fields are given by and .
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Contributed by: Y. Shibuya (September 2015)
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[1] J. A. Stratton, Electromagnetic Theory, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
[2] W. K. H. Panofsky and M. Phillips, Classical Electricity and Magnetism, 2nd ed., Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2005.
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