The plot depicts the time evolution of the lines of force of the electric field around a Hertzian dipole. It straightforwardly visualizes the function
(see Details for further information).
Thus it recomputes Hertz's famous figures that he had created for several instants of time in the interval
,
being the period of short dipole electric oscillations. The lines of force are plotted in the
-
plane in a square of size approximately
, where λ is the corresponding wavelength. Note that the reader may reproduce questionable ranges (i.e. at
=
) of Hertz’s diagrams, including the self-intersecting lines of force.
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