(1) Department of Microwave Telecommunication Engineering, Xidian University, 710071 Xi’an, China
Abstract:
The generalized principle of least action in electromagnetism is presented, which is effective even though in lossy and nonreciprocal media. It is pointed out that the Maxwell’ s equations can be derived from this principle. At last for example of its applications, some useful variational expressions for electromagnetic fields are derived systematically from the principle.