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Old 07-July-2008, 02:40 AM
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Originally Posted by korjik View Post
Your forms for E and B are in error. If they have the form exp(t) then the divergence equals zero since Del A = ∂A/∂x+∂A/∂y+∂A/∂z and you have nospatial dependence.

Did you mean that E and B are of the form exp(kx-wt)?
No. I may have a mistake somewhere. That is possible. But there is nothing wrong with having zero divergence. In fact unless there is a net charge concentrated somewhere one would expect the divergence of E to be zero. And if the divergence of B is not zero then there would be a problem.
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