Electromagnetic Wave -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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Electromagnetic Wave

For traveling electromagnetic waves, the electric and magnetic fields E and B are in phase. In cgs,

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

and in MKS,

(5)

(6)

(7)

where is the permeability of free space. The average flux is then

(8)

Electromagnetic Radiation


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