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A rectangular-cavity standing mode at resonance: explicit fields and the PEC end-cap check
An explicit conditional standing-wave cavity mode of the lossless isotropic scalar branch in the rectangular perfectly conducting cavity, with its exact resonance condition and end-cap check. No measured resonance or empirical claim.
Example
All displayed fields and parameters below are numerical values in fixed coherent SI units: in m, in s, in , in , in , in and in T. The TM longitudinal normalization is in The separated TE and TM candidate modes of the lossless rectangular PEC guide: exact verification, index restrictions and cutoff(b), so the dimensionless profile below specifies the numerical electric-field components.
Let and be constants, put , and for define and , where the curl is the fixed-time spatial curl of Divergence and curl of a vector field. Then are smooth, , , and satisfy the four source-free macroscopic equations on the box in the lossless isotropic scalar branch exactly when with that resonance, and hold on all six walls, so is a PEC cavity mode. It is the cutoff instance of the TM family of The separated TE and TM candidate modes of the lossless rectangular PEC guide: exact verification, index restrictions and cutoff(b) taken with axis , cross-section and indices : the field is independent of , which is why it also satisfies the and end-cap conditions for every box length . The example asserts a conditional model solution, not an observed resonance.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The SI numerical-value convention and normalization of the Example; constants and ; ; for the fields and on the box ; the fixed-time spatial curl and divergence of Divergence and curl of a vector field; the box geometry, its six open walls and the PEC conditions of Rectangular PEC guide and cavity geometry, the zero-normal-B reflection class, and axis-relative TE/TM/TEM.
Profile identities: with on the rectangle one has with , on the rectangle boundary; in particular and the second derivatives of the sine factors are and (The separated sine and cosine rectangle profiles: eigen-identities, boundary traces, orthogonality and Dirichlet integrals (b)).
Use the positively oriented cyclic coordinates with basis : cyclic permutation leaves the coordinate cross-product, divergence and curl formulas unchanged. Thus the transverse lemma and candidate theorem apply with longitudinal axis and transverse coordinates . For an -independent profile regarded on the splitting with coordinates , , , and for transverse (Transverse vector-calculus identities for the splitting (a),(b) applied with ).
With the stated SI numerical-value convention and , the TM family of The separated TE and TM candidate modes of the lossless rectangular PEC guide: exact verification, index restrictions and cutoff (b) with axis , cross-section , indices and : , and the amplitudes , at become and ; the theorem gives smoothness, the four source-free equations at the cutoff , and the PEC conditions on the four faces with normals (The separated TE and TM candidate modes of the lossless rectangular PEC guide: exact verification, index restrictions and cutoff (b),(d)).
Verification
[The spatial profile, the equations and the resonance] The profile has only its first component, independent of , so and by [F1]. Hence and (a divergence of a curl vanishes componentwise by the equality of mixed partials of the smooth profile). Further and , so Faraday's law holds identically. For Amp`ere's law compute : by [F2] , whose curl is by [F1]; therefore and , which agree exactly when , i.e. when . The fields are smooth because is a product of sines and a finite combination of such products, and both are independent of .
[The six wall conditions] On the walls and with normals : since is parallel to , and because . On the walls and with normals : and vanishes because there, so ; and with , which vanishes at . On the walls and with normals : , whose coefficient vanishes because there, so ; and with , which vanishes at . Thus all six walls satisfy and at resonance.
[Identification with the cutoff TM instance] In the setting of [F3] with axis , cross-section , indices and , the dispersion relation at is exactly the resonance of step 1.1, , and the amplitudes become and . Then , , and because [F2] and at resonance. The amplitudes are independent of , which is why the end-cap conditions on hold for every box length ; the theorem's clause (d) supplies the resonance condition and clause (b) the guide-wall conditions on the four faces with normals .
[Scope] The displayed pair is an explicit conditional standing-wave mode of the lossless isotropic scalar branch in the rectangular perfectly conducting cavity, with the exact resonance condition and the full wall check, identified as the cutoff TM instance with axis ; the example asserts a model solution and not an observed resonance, and no measurement, completeness or empirical claim is made.
Depends on
Rectangular PEC guide and cavity geometry, the zero-normal-B reflection class, and axis-relative TE/TM/TEM
Divergence and curl of a vector field
The separated sine and cosine rectangle profiles: eigen-identities, boundary traces, orthogonality and Dirichlet integrals
Transverse vector-calculus identities for the splitting
The separated TE and TM candidate modes of the lossless rectangular PEC guide: exact verification, index restrictions and cutoff
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Sources
- N. Beisert, Elektrodynamik, Vorlesungsskript, ETH Zurich, 2024 FS (German), Chapter 13 'Wellenleiter' and 'Kavitaeten', PDF pp. 153-162 (printed pp. 13.1-13.10); complete 176-page author-hosted PDF and official TeX read, with the conjugate-error in (13.26), the 'Wendepunkt' mislabel and the general group-velocity restriction recorded as source defects not copied
- R. Fitzpatrick, Classical Electromagnetism: An intermediate level course (University of Texas at Austin, 2006-02-02), node 105 'Wave-guides', complete author-hosted HTML node read in the run's pinned full-notes snapshot
- D. J. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics, 3rd edition (Prentice Hall 1999, 596-page full scan), sections 9.5.1-9.5.3 printed pp. 405-412 (wave guides, TE waves in a rectangular wave guide, coaxial transmission line), read in the stamped full text; OCR noise cross-checked against the other treatments
- D. Tong, Electromagnetism, University of Cambridge Part II Mathematical Tripos lecture notes (2026 printing, 236 pp.), section 4.3.3 'An Application: Reflection off a Conductor' printed pp. 89-90 (ideal-conductor boundary reading: E=0 inside, tangential E continuity and n.B=0, surface current), read in the stamped full PDF