term is the time derivative of the electric field and is known as Maxwell's displacement current. Maxwell's modified version of Ampere's Circuital Law enables the set of equations to be combined together to derive the EM wave equation, which will be further discussed in Chapter 3.
Now let us have a closer look at these mathematical equations to see what they really mean in terms of the physical explanations.
1.4.3.1 Faraday's Law of Induction
(1.30)
This equation simply means that the induced electromotive force (EMF with a unit in V, it is the left‐hand size of the equation expressed in the integral form as shown in Equation (1.37)) is proportional to the rate of change of the magnetic flux. In layman's terms, moving a conductor (such as a metal wire) through a magnetic field produces a voltage. The resulting voltage is directly proportional to the speed of movement. It is apparent from this equation that a time‐varying magnetic field
1.4.3.2 Amperes’ Circuital Law
(1.31)
This equation was modified by Maxwell by introducing the displacement current
This equation shows that both the current (J) and time‐varying electric field
1.4.3.3 Gauss' Law for Electric Field
(1.32)
This is the electrostatic application of Gauss's generalized theorem, giving the equivalence relation between any flux, e.g. of liquids, electric or gravitational, flowing out of any closed surface and the result of inner sources and sinks, such as electric charges or masses enclosed within the closed surface. As a result, it is not possible for electric fields to form a closed loop. Since D = εE, it is also clear that charges (ρ) can generate electric fields, i.e. E ≠ 0.
1.4.3.4 Gauss’ Law for Magnetic Field
(1.33)
This shows that the divergence of the magnetic field (∇ • B) is always zero, which means that the magnetic field lines are closed loops, thus the integral of B over a closed surface is zero.
For a time‐harmonic EM field (which means the field linked to the time by factor ejωt where ω is the angular frequency and t is the time), we can use the constitutive relations
(1.34)
to write Maxwell’s equations into the following forms
(1.35)
where B and D are replaced by the electric field E and magnetic field H to simplify the equations and they will not appear again unless necessary.
It should be pointed out that, in Equation (1.35),
(1.36)
It is hard to predict how the loss tangent changes with the frequency since both the permittivity and conductivity are functions of frequency as well. More discussion will be given in Chapter 3.
1.4.4 Boundary Conditions
Maxwell’s equations can also be written in the integral form as
(1.37)
Consider the boundary between two materials shown in Figure 1.14. Using these equations, we can obtain a number of useful results. For example, if we apply the first equation of Maxwell’s equations in integral form to the boundary between Medium 1 and Medium 2, it is not difficult to obtain [2]:
(1.38)
where
Figure 1.14 Boundary between Medium 1 and Medium 2
Similarly, we can apply other three Maxwell’s equations to this boundary to obtain:
(1.39)
where Js is the surface current density and ρs is the surface charge density. These results can be interpreted as
The change in tangential component of the magnetic field across a boundary is equal to the surface current density on the boundary;
The
