{"id":251,"date":"2010-02-15T19:12:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T00:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/magnes\/?p=251"},"modified":"2010-02-15T19:12:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T00:12:11","slug":"snells-law-for-dielectrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/2010\/02\/15\/snells-law-for-dielectrics\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Snell&#8217;s Law for Dielectrics&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vspace.vassar.edu\/makinneberg\/Dielectric%20Snell%20Simulation.nb\">Here is a link<\/a> to my Mathematica simulation exploring eq. 4.86 in Griffiths, or &#8220;Snell&#8217;s Law for Dielectrics.&#8221; I plotted the equation for several incident angles in three cases: equal permittivites, e1&gt;e2, and e1&lt;e2. It seems that there is no analogous critical angle\/total internal reflection in the dielectric version of Snell&#8217;s law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a link to my Mathematica simulation exploring eq. 4.86 in Griffiths, or &#8220;Snell&#8217;s Law for Dielectrics.&#8221; I plotted the equation for several incident angles in three cases: equal permittivites, e1&gt;e2, and e1&lt;e2. It seems that there is no analogous critical angle\/total internal reflection in the dielectric version of Snell&#8217;s law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}