Bivectors occur naturally in the description of elliptically polarized homogeneous and inhomogeneous plane waves. This text presents a treatment of the properties of bivectors and shows how these may be applied to the theory of homogeneous and inhomogeneous plane waves.
Bivectors occur naturally in the description of elliptically polarized homogeneous and inhomogeneous plane waves. This text presents a treatment of the properties of bivectors and shows how these may be applied to the theory of homogeneous and inhomogeneous plane waves.
Ph. Boulanger, Department de Mathematique, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. M.A. Hayes, Mathematical Physics Department, University College Dublin, Ireland.
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Preface 1 The ellipse 2 Bivectors 3 Complex symmetric matrices 4 Complex orthogonal matrices and complex skew-symmetric matrices 5 Ellipsoids 6 Homogeneous and inhomogeneous plane waves 7 Description of elliptical polarization 8 Energy flux 9 Electromagnetic plane waves 10 Plane waves in linearized elasticity theory 11 Plane waves in viscous fluids
