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david.ko3:
Hi! I came across a question that says,
Analyse how Maxwel explained the proporgation of electromagnetic waves, with reference to his relevant equations.
How would I answer the question? Thanks so much!!! Help is very appreciated ;D

blasonduo:

--- Quote from: david.ko3 on March 03, 2019, 11:39:01 am ---Hi! I came across a question that says,
Analyse how Maxwel explained the proporgation of electromagnetic waves, with reference to his relevant equations.
How would I answer the question? Thanks so much!!! Help is very appreciated ;D

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Hey! What part of this statement confuses you? Do you know the equations? What do you already know about them? How could they be used to explain what Planck investigated?

Knowing how much you know would allow me to explain more efficiently your confusion ;D

JackMcN0:

--- Quote from: david.ko3 on March 03, 2019, 11:39:01 am ---Hi! I came across a question that says,
Analyse how Maxwel explained the proporgation of electromagnetic waves, with reference to his relevant equations.
How would I answer the question? Thanks so much!!! Help is very appreciated ;D

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Hey mate for your Course you are only required to submit a qualitative analysis of this meaning no Maths.
 I have attached the two relevant syllabus point documents.
But if I was to answer your Question... Maxwell unified Gauss' Law, a similar one for magnetism, Ampere's Law and Faraday's Law. Ampere's Law states that a changing point charge produces a magnetic field. Faraday's Law means that a induced emf in a circuit is equal in magnitude to the change in flux in the circuit. He noticed that if a changing electric field produced a magnetic field, the inverse would occur. Which is, the  changing magnetic field would in turn produce a electric field. Therefore, light is self propagating. Thus, Maxwell proposed this theory to predict how light propagates in media.

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