Tuesday, 27 December 2016

electromagnetism - Obtain the same Maxwell's equation after a change of coordinates


In the usual (x,y,z) system of coordinates, if we expand the Maxwell's curls equations for phasors


×E=JmjωμH ×H=J+jωϵE


we obtain equations like the following:


HyzHzy=Jx+jωϵEx


Now, let E, H, J, Jm be a new field (with its new sources). In particular we have


Hy=Hy Hz=Hz Jx=Jx Ex=Ex


The equation (1) for this field becomes



HyzHzy=Jx+jωϵEx


If we define x=x, y=y, z=z, (2) becomes


HyzHzy=Jx+jωϵEx


that is, substituting the primed quantities with the equivalent unprimed ones,


Hyz+Hzy=JxjωϵEx


HyzHzy=Jx+jωϵEx


The equation (2) can be written in the form (3): so, we have obtained the same equation as (1), but with respect to the primed variables!


Questions: can (3) still be considered a Maxwell's equation as well as (1)? Why?


My question arises because (3) is weird: it involves components of fields along the unprimed unit vectors (ux, uy and uz), and derivation with respect to the primed variables (x, y and z).


In particular, Hz has a different behaviour according to the system of coordinates, because uz=uz. So, how can this be taken into account while evaluating (3)? This is what I can't understand.



This demonstration is used to derive the fields in the Method of the Images in the Electromagnetic theory (the primed field is the image field).




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