Accession Number:

AD0623125

Title:

GEOMETRIC OPTICS AND THE POLARIZATION VECTORS.

Descriptive Note:

Research rept.,

Corporate Author:

NEW YORK UNIV N Y DIV OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RESEARCH

Personal Author(s):

• Lewis,Robert M.

Report Date:

1965-07-01

Pagination or Media Count:

10.0

Abstract:

Classical geometrical optics provides simple rules for the construction of electromagnetic fields. However the rules are imcomplete in that the directions of E and H are not completely determined. The usual rules can be derived from an asymptotic solution of Maxwells equations. This process also yields equations for the direction of E and H. These equations are shown to yield a very simple direction rule which completes the geometrical optics determination of the fields. Author

Descriptors:

• (*ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS
• DETERMINATION)
• (*OPTICS
• ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS)
• POLARIZATION
• VECTOR ANALYSIS
• PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

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Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE