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    In physics, the Poynting vector (or Umov–Poynting vector) represents the directional energy flux (the energy transfer per unit area, per unit time) or...
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    the University of Birmingham until his death. Poynting was the youngest son of Thomas Elford Poynting, a Unitarian minister. He was born at the parsonage...
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  • Poynting's theorem is a statement of conservation of energy for electromagnetic fields that was developed by British physicist John Henry Poynting. It...
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    currents) and the B field (sourced from the secondary currents) forms the Poynting vector, which points from the primary toward the secondary. "What Separates...
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    electric charge of the test particle. The GEM Poynting vector compared to the electromagnetic Poynting vector is given by: The literature does not adopt...
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  • Poynting may refer to: John Henry Poynting (1852–1914), a British physicist, after whom are named: Poynting vector, a representation of the energy flux...
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  • Flux (redirect from Flux of a vector field)
    Luminous flux Magnetic flux Magnetic flux quantum Neutron flux Poynting flux Poynting theorem Radiant flux Rapid single flux quantum Sound energy flux...
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  • Energy current is a flow of energy defined by the Poynting vector (E × H), as opposed to normal current (flow of charge). It was originally postulated...
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  • of electromagnetic energy is given by the average Poynting vector, this means that the Poynting vector in these regions, as averaged over a complete oscillation...
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    {\displaystyle E_{0}=c_{0}B_{0}} , which can be seen immediately from the Poynting vector. The electric field, magnetic field, and direction of wave propagation...
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    physicist and mathematician known for discovering the concept of Umov-Poynting vector and Umov effect. Umov was born in 1846 in Simbirsk (present-day Ulyanovsk)...
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    Poynting vector) multiplied by cos θ for a wave at an angle θ to the normal direction (or equivalently, taking the dot product of the Poynting vector...
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    per unit area) at any point as the magnitude of the real part of the Poynting vector, S, which is given by     1   2 E × H ∗   . {\textstyle \ {\tfrac {\...
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    Dipole (section Vector form)
    {e^{i\omega (r/c-t)}}{r}}{\hat {\theta }}.\end{aligned}}} The time-averaged Poynting vector ⟨ S ⟩ = ( μ 0 p 0 2 ω 4 32 π 2 c ) sin 2 ⁡ ( θ ) r 2 r ^ {\displaystyle...
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    rewritten to something that can be interpreted physically, namely the Poynting vector. Using the product rule and Faraday's law of induction gives ∂ ∂ t...
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    {S} ={\frac {1}{\mu _{0}}}\mathbf {E} \times \mathbf {B} } is the Poynting vector, σ i j = ϵ 0 E i E j + 1 μ 0 B i B j − 1 2 ( ϵ 0 E 2 + 1 μ 0 B 2 )...
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  • The Poynting–Robertson effect, also known as Poynting–Robertson drag, named after John Henry Poynting and Howard P. Robertson, is a process by which solar...
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    a unit area of a chosen cross section. The current density vector is defined as a vector whose magnitude is the electric current per cross-sectional...
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  • \alpha ,} where ⟨ • ⟩ is the time-average; S is the Poynting vector; α is the angle between a unit vector normal to the surface and S. For a propagating sinusoidal...
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    the phase velocity could be made anti-parallel to the direction of Poynting vector. This is contrary to wave propagation in naturally occurring materials...
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    magnetic interaction is described in terms of a vector field, where each point in space is associated with a vector that determines what force a moving charge...
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    ^{2}\right)+{\frac {1}{c}}\mathbf {S} ,} where S is the Poynting vector. The Riemann–Silberstein vector is used for an exact matrix representations of Maxwell's...
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    the magnetic field. The above rules can be generalized to give the modern vector form of Ørsted's law The line integral of the magnetic field B ( x ) {\displaystyle...
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    {\mathbf {r-r_{i}} }{|\mathbf {r-r_{i}} |}}} is the unit vector of the displacement vector that indicates the direction of the field due to the source...
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    relativistic vector function from which the electromagnetic field can be derived. It combines both an electric scalar potential and a magnetic vector potential...
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    of the generalized angular momentum is conserved. By looking at the Poynting vector of the configuration, one can deduce that the fields have nonzero total...
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    permittivity of vacuum, μ0 is the magnetic permeability of vacuum, the Poynting vector is S = 1 μ 0 E × B {\displaystyle \mathbf {S} ={\frac {1}{\mu _{0}}}\mathbf...
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  • Right-hand rule (category Vectors (mathematics and physics))
    Fleming's left-hand rule for motors Improper rotation ISO 2 Oersted's law Poynting vector Pseudovector Reflection (mathematics) Hamilton, William Rowan (1853)...
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    {\displaystyle {\boldsymbol {\sigma }}} , in turn this can be combined with the Poynting vector S {\displaystyle \mathbf {S} } to obtain the electromagnetic stress–energy...
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    density, with units of charge per unit time per unit area. Also known as vector current, it is used in the geometric context of four-dimensional spacetime...
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