Comment on the longitudinal magnetic field of circularly polarized electromagnetic waves

✍ Scribed by E. Comay

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 264 KB
• Volume: 261
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(96)01010-x

✦ Synopsis

Consideration of the radiation from a rotating electric dipole leads to the inference that the existence of the recently suggested B (3) longitudinal magnetic field implies a real electric field which increases indefinitely as time elapses. This conclusion is obtained by integrating the magnetic flux around a closed path at the wave zone. The integration yields a non-zero result by virtue of the assumed existence of the B (3) longitudinal field. Thence using Stokes's theorem, Maxwell's equation V× B = aE/at completes the proof. Such an electric field is excluded in the theory of the B (3) field, and its increasing nature makes it physically unrealistic. Thus the existence of the B (3) longitudinal magnetic field is inconsistent with Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism.