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Poynting Vector For The Time Harmonic Case

This document discusses the Poynting vector for time harmonic electromagnetic waves. It shows that the instantaneous Poynting vector can be expressed as the real part of the complex Poynting vector, which is the product of the complex conjugate of the electric field and the magnetic field. It also states that the time average of the instantaneous Poynting vector gives the magnitude and direction of energy flow, and this can be used to calculate the total average power passing through a surface by integrating it over that surface.

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Poynting Vector For The Time Harmonic Case

This document discusses the Poynting vector for time harmonic electromagnetic waves. It shows that the instantaneous Poynting vector can be expressed as the real part of the complex Poynting vector, which is the product of the complex conjugate of the electric field and the magnetic field. It also states that the time average of the instantaneous Poynting vector gives the magnitude and direction of energy flow, and this can be used to calculate the total average power passing through a surface by integrating it over that surface.

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Poynting vector for the time harmonic case:

For time harmonic case, the time variation is of the form , and we have seen that instantaneous value
of a quantity is the real part of the product of a phasor quantity and when is used as
reference. For example, if we consider the phasor

then we can write the instanteneous field as

when E0 is real.
Let us consider two instanteneous quantities A and B such that

where A and B are the phasor quantities. i.e,

Therefore,

Since A and B are periodic with period , the time average value of the product form AB, denoted
by can be written as
Further, considering the phasor quantities A and B, we find that

and , where * denotes complex conjugate.

The poynting vector can be expressed as

If we consider a plane electromagnetic wave propagating in +z direction and has only component,
from (b) we can write:

Using (6.41)

where and , for the plane wave under consideration.


For a general case, we can write

We can define a complex Poynting vector

and time average of the instantaneous Poynting vector is given by

All representations of the Poynting vector represent vector energy densities.


Thus, to determine the total power passing through a surface, we must
integrate the Poynting vector over that surface. The total time-average
power passing through the surface S is

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