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Figure 1.5 Reflectance confocal microscope. This 405 nm, line-scanning reflectance confocal
microscope includes a mixture of custom-designed components, commercial off-the-shelf mounting
hardware, and a commercial microscope objective. (Photo by Gary Peterson of Memorial Sloan
Kettering Cancer Center, New York.)
develop from it. On the other hand, the interested student may wish to delve deeper into this
area using any electromagnetics textbook [1,66–69]. Maxwell’s equations are usually pre-
sented in one of four forms, differential or integral, in MKS or CGS units. As engineers,
we will choose to use the differential form and engineering ...