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The plane wave is reflected at normal incidence by a perfect conductor in the plane z=0....

The plane wave is reflected at normal incidence by a perfect conductor in the plane z=0. What are the boundary conditions on E and B at the surface of the perfect conductor?

Give the electromagnetic plane wave E and B reflected from the conductor. Write in standing-wave form the total electromagnetic wave in the region 0<Z.

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