ABSTRACT
In 1988, Price et al. released a corporate report on the statistical distribution of electromagnetic fields within a complex cavity. In 1993, a somewhat revised version of this work appeared in the open literature. The Price et al. report begins with a formula for electromagnetic mode density associated with blackbody statistics. The power carried by the magnetic field is the sum of two squared quantities (the phase quadrature components of the magnetic field). As such, this power should have a chi square distribution with two degrees of freedom, provided each of the quadrature components is normally distributed. It is important to point out that in our simplified 1D model, all losses are internal, and no energy leaks back out through the port at which it was injected.
