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    This document discusses the laws of optics, including reflection and refraction at a boundary between two transparent media. It defines the refractive index and shows that for a vacuum it is equal to 1. It introduces Snell's law to describe the kinematical aspects of reflection and refraction. The assumptions made are that there are no surface charges or currents, both media have zero conductivity and are transparent, the media are non-ferromagnetic so the relationship between the magnetic field B and magnetic intensity H holds, and the incident wave is a plane wave.

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    This document discusses the laws of optics, including reflection and refraction at a boundary between two transparent media. It defines the refractive index and shows that for a vacuum it is equal to 1. It introduces Snell's law to describe the kinematical aspects of reflection and refraction. The assumptions made are that there are no surface charges or currents, both media have zero conductivity and are transparent, the media are non-ferromagnetic so the relationship between the magnetic field B and magnetic intensity H holds, and the incident wave is a plane wave.

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    250 CHAPTER 11.

    THE LAWS OF OPTICS

    For IS = 0 we have k real; i.e. the wave is not damped, and the medium is
    said to be “transparent” (allows radiation to pass through).
    We now put
    k = Ikleip,
    and find

    (11.33)

    The (generalised) refractive index is defined as the quantity

    (11.34)
    Hence for the vacuum we have (0= 0):
    W
    p = fit, i.e. p = 1 and k = -. (11.35)
    C

    11.4 Kinematical Aspects of Reflection and


    Refraction: Snell’s Law
    11.4.1 Preliminary Remarks
    We now consider reflection and refraction of a wave at a boundary surface
    between two media (1)and (2) as indicated in Fig. 11.5 which are not metals.
    For the our kinematical considerations here we make the following as-
    sumptions:
    (a) there are no surface charges or surface currents,

    (b) both media have conductivity 0 = 0,t (i.e. are transparent),

    (c) in order that B = p H be valid, the media are assumed not to be


    ferromagnetic ( B = p H is not valid for these!),

    (d) the incident wave is a plane wave with


    E = Eoei(k.r-wt) (11.36)

    (in the case of a plane wave f (r,t ) := k . r - wt = const., k = V f (r, t ) ) .

    +Metals will be treated in Chapter 12. Most of the considerations here for u = 0 are also valid
    # 0 and finite. Then also the surface current density K = 0.
    for u

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