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English: In a conductor e.m. waves are not only exponentially attenuated (as part of their energy is dissipated to create currents), but since the wave vector is complex, the electric and magnetic fields do not oscillate in phase anymore.
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Source https://twitter.com/j_bertolotti/status/1168556884946759680
Author Jacopo Bertolotti
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https://twitter.com/j_bertolotti/status/1030470604418428929

Mathematica 11.0 code

\[Omega] = 4 \[Pi];
k = \[Pi] (2 + 1 I);
el = {E^(I (k z - \[Omega] t)), 0, 0};
b = -FullSimplify@Integrate[Evaluate[Curl[el, {x, y, z}]], t];
el[[3]] = z;
b[[3]] = z;

p1 = Table[
   Show[
    ParametricPlot3D[Re@el, {z, 0, 3}, PlotRange -> {{-1, 1}, {-1, 1}, {-0.3, 3.5}}, PlotStyle -> {Blue, Thick}, ImageSize -> Medium, Boxed -> False, Axes -> False],
ParametricPlot3D[Re@b, {z, 0, 3}, PlotStyle -> {Red, Thick}],
Graphics3D[{Thick, Arrow[{{0, 0, -0.3}, {0, 0, 3}}], Text[Style["\!\(\*OverscriptBox[\(k\), \(\[Rule]\)]\)", Bold, FontSize -> 18], {0, 0, 3.2}], Blue, Text[Style["\!\(\*OverscriptBox[\(E\), \(\[Rule]\)]\)", Bold, FontSize -> 18], {-0.5, 0, 2}], Red, Text[Style["\!\(\*OverscriptBox[\(B\), \(\[Rule]\)]\)", Bold, FontSize -> 18], {0, 1, 0}]}],
ViewPoint -> {-1, -0.5, 1}, ViewVector -> {{-10, -10, 12}, {0, 0, 1.5}}, ViewVertical -> {-3, 0.1, 0}, BoxRatios -> 1],
{t, 0, 2, 0.02}];
ListAnimate[p1]

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Electromagnetic wave in a conductor.

2 September 2019

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