Negative Refraction as a Source of Some Pedagogical Problems

• Authors: V. Veselago
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The appearance of material with negative values of dielectric and magnetic permeabilities ε and μ and with negative index of refraction n forces to revise the accustomed forms of some well-known formulae of electrodynamics. This is connected with fact, that these correlations in repressing majority of sources is written in tacit suggestion that magnetic permeability of most of materials is μ=1, factor of refraction n=ε and is undoubtedly executed the correlation n > 0. Such approach could be named as "nonmagnetic". However, if n <0, this nonmagnetic approach can bring very hard mistakes.

Keywords

EN

78.20.Ci   41.20.Jb  

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 112
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 777-781

Dates

published

2007-11

received

2007-09-03

Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.112.777