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Electromagnetic Waves

Madhya Pradesh Board · Class 12 · Physics

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Key Topics to Revise

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1. Maxwell's Idea and Displacement Current

  • Maxwell noticed an inconsistency in Ampere's circuital law when it was applied to a charging capacitor.
  • The missing term is the displacement current, which is due to a time-varying electric field.
  • The electric flux between the capacitor plates is Φ_E = Q/ε0.
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2. Sources and Nature of Electromagnetic Waves

  • Only accelerated charges radiate electromagnetic waves.
  • Stationary charges do not produce electromagnetic waves.
  • Charges in uniform motion, that is steady currents, also do not produce electromagnetic waves.
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3. Historical Development and Verification

  • James Clerk Maxwell unified electricity and magnetism into Maxwell's equations.
  • Maxwell predicted the existence of electromagnetic waves and concluded that light is an electromagnetic wave.
  • Hertz experimentally demonstrated the existence of electromagnetic waves.
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4. Electromagnetic Spectrum

  • The electromagnetic spectrum is the classification of electromagnetic waves according to frequency or wavelength.
  • There is no sharp division between one kind of wave and the next.
  • The regions overlap and boundaries are approximate.

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A changing electric field producesThe corrected form of Ampere’s lawOnly accelerated charges radiate electromagnetic wavesIn a plane electromagnetic waveIn vacuum

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