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Linked Electric and Magnetic Fields for Source-Free Maxwell Equations

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This Demonstration shows the electric and magnetic field lines (in red and blue) of localized, time‐dependent, finite‐energy, rational solutions (in , , , and ) of the source‐free Maxwell equations that can be interpreted as classical (nonquantum) photons. For all times, any pair of electric and magnetic field lines is linked.

Contributed by: Michael Trott (March 2011)
From: The Mathematica GuideBook for Programming, second edition by Michael Trott (© Springer, 2008).
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

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