9: Plane Waves I
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The use of phasors to describe the propagation of plane waves through space.
- 9.2: Phasors
- It is very convenient to represent sinusoidal functions i.e. sines and cosines, by complex exponential functions when dealing with linear differential equations such as Maxwell’s equations.
Thumbnail: The wavefronts of a plane wave traveling in 3-space. (Public Domain; Quibik via Wikipedia)