Reciprocity (electromagnetism)
(重定向自Lorentz reciprocity theorem)
- This page is about reciprocity theorems in classical electromagnetism. See also Reciprocity theorem (disambiguation) for unrelated reciprocity theorems, and Reciprocity (disambiguation) for more general usages of the term.
In classical electromagnetism, reciprocity refers to a variety of related theorems involving the interchange of time-harmonic electric current densities (sources) and the resulting electromagnetic fields in Maxwell's equations for time-invariant linear media under certain constraints. Reciprocity is closely related to the concept of Hermitian operators from linear algebra, applied to electromagnetism.