Engineering Physics: Unit II: Electromagnetic Waves

Properties of Electromagnetic Waves

Electromagnetic waves are produced by accelerated charges.

PROPERTIES OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES 

(i) Electromagnetic waves are produced by accelerated charges. 

(ii) They do not require any material medium for propagation. 

(iii) In an electromagnetic wave, the electric and magnetic field vectors are at right angles to each other and to the direction of propagation. Hence, electromagnetic waves are transverse in nature. 

(iv) Variation of maxima and minima in both occur simultaneously in phase). 

(v) They travel in vacuum or free space with a speed 3 × 108 ms-1 given by the relation c =

0 - permeability of free space and 

ε0 - permittivity of free space)

(vi) The energy in an electromagnetic wave is equally divided between electric and magnetic field vectors. 

(vii) The electromagnetic waves being chargeless, they are not deflected by electric and magnetic fields.


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