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Grade 12Modern Physics

prove that light has both electric and magnetic component

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9 Years agoGrade 12
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8 Years ago
The light consists of the electromagnetic waves as it posseses both characteristics of the lecrical and the magnetic component which can be proved by the maxwells third and the fourth equation.


The solution of the above two equation gives the electrical and the magnetic component which when plotted on the graph forms this waveform.