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Electromagnetic wave of oscillating charges


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🎯 Visualization of the Liénard–Wiechert field of two oscillating charges
🧠 Based on [this tutorial](Taken from this tutorial by Byron Philhour
🐍 A VPython demo is available as well, see electromagnetic_wave_quiver.py
👉 Read more on electromagnetic interactions on MIT OpenCourseWare
👉 Maxwell’s equations:

\[\bigg ( v^2\nabla^2 - \dfrac {\partial^2}{\partial t^2} \bigg) \vec{E} = 0,\quad \bigg ( v^2\nabla^2 - \dfrac {\partial^2}{\partial t^2} \bigg) \vec{B} = 0,\quad v=\dfrac {1} {\sqrt {\mu \epsilon}}\]
Click to start the animation!


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