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Q.How are EM waves produced?
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →Section 13.2.1 explains this mechanism precisely: a charge at rest has only a static electric field around it and no magnetic field, so it produces no EM wave. A charge moving with constant velocity does produce a magnetic field, but because that field does not vary with time, it still cannot generate an EM wave. It is only when a charge is accelerated -- so that both its electric and magnetic fields vary with space and time together -- that a …
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