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It was shown in Chapter 1 that E and H both satisfy vector wave equations for a nonconducting medium. This obviously means that each component of the electric and magnetic fields satisfy a scalar wave equation. It was also shown that E and H satisfy the damped wave equations for a conducting medium, where the damping terms depend on the first time derivative of E and H and is proportional to the conductivity. These equations reduce to the corresponding wave equations for a nonconducting medium.
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Davis, J.L. (1990). Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations in Two Independent Variables. In: Wave Propagation in Electromagnetic Media. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3284-1_2
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