Talk:Interface conditions for electromagnetic fields

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• Derivations from Maxwell's equations in integral form.
• The conclusions from these boundary conditions.
• The cases of dielectric and ideal conductor as the media.
• A discussion of what are the boundary conditions according to where are the relative dielectric constant, peermeability and refractive index in the complex plane. This includes not only real dielectrics and metals, but also plasma and metamaterials — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.185.59.109 (talk) 13:42, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

title??

i searched for this title in google books, and found 1 result. in addition, i know something about this subject, and couldn't understand what the title is about, but can only assume what the title is about by reading the article. bottom line: change the title! 79.101.174.192 (talk) 10:00, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Maybe it should be renamed "Boundary conditions for electromagnetic fields"?--1=0 (talk) 09:53, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

Yes, it should. Most sources mention these as boundary conditions which is logically correct in a sense. I can get why some people may want to keep the title (to prevent confusion with boundary conditions such as Dirichlet or Neumann) but this one seems to be the best. Myxomatosis57 (talk) 22:25, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

Just normal vector?

I checked out my university course and normal vectors in the equations in the article are unit normal vectors. Such as $\mathbf {\hat {n}} _{12}$ --1=0 (talk) 09:53, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

"For electric displacement field" incorrect equation?

Under that section of the article, it states that (D2 - D1) . n12 = ρ_s. Searching around, nearly every other source says it should be (D1 - D2) . n12 = ρ_s, and attempting to derive it with Gauss' Law yields the latter solution too. 73.53.49.103 (talk) 08:33, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Many books choose ${\hat {n}}$ to be ${\hat {n_{21}}}$ and then conclude $({\vec {D_{1}}}-{\vec {D_{2}}}).{\hat {n_{21}}}=\rho _{s}$,[1] but this article has chosen ${\hat {n_{12}}}$. Overall the result is the same.

Dalba 11:00, 25 October 2019 (UTC)