Re: about phase and frequency

From: Franz Heymann (notfranz.heymann_at_btopenworld.com)
Date: 02/25/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 21:53:36 +0000 (UTC)

Androcles wrote:

> Between the B and E fields?
> It's 90 degrees, or pi/2.

Rubbish.
Please calculate the Poynting vector for a plane wave with B and E in
time-quadrature and prove for yourself that the power per unit area
just oscillates to and fro.

> E = -dB/dt -- Faraday, taken by Maxwell into his own suite.
There is not, and there never was, such a law.
You are thinking of
curl E = -db/dt

> IN FACT, Feuerbacher is an uneducated fuckwit that cannot solve
> Faraday's differential equation, or he wouldn't be saying anything
> so stupid.

Feuerbacher has in fact shat on you from a dizzy height.

> IN FACT, Androcles is an uneducated fuckwit who does not even know
> Faraday's equation, nor can read (since he does not recognize that
> the pages he himself cites contradict him).

You can not have *both*
E = -dB/dt
and
curl E - -db/dt
true.

The latter is the equation which leads to the prediction of EM waves.
The former does not.
May I suggest that you come back pretty fast with a correction and an
apology to Feuerbach? 

-- 
Franz
"The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis
by an ugly fact."
T.H. Huxley